Identify patterns and forecast future emissions

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Business value

Key influencers provide detailed insights for effective decision-making that are paramount to achieving sustainability goals. Forecasting provides insight into emissions data to determine if early intervention is required to ensure your sustainability objectives are met.

Feature details

Easily identify patterns showing increasing or decreasing emissions. As the patterns are established, you can quickly identify the most significant contributing factors driving emissions up or down. You can include reporting years, organizational units, or specific sources across scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions to be used in determining key influencers.

Forecasting helps you to visualize your organization’s future emissions. You can view the forecast across all emissions or by scope 1, scope 2, or scope 3. You can build the forecast using data from current and historical reporting years. You can select your forecasts at a business unit level or across your entire organization.

See also

Emissions overview dashboard (docs)