Why consider emissions from Downstream transportation?
Measuring downstream transportation emissions is often skipped by lack of data, since the company isn’t paying for this service. Even if it shouldn’t represent more than a few percents of a company’s assessment, it is important for some type of companies to measure this scope, or at least have an estimation of this impact.
Type of raw data
💡This module should help companies that cannot collect more data than the weight of products they sell to estimates their impact.
The temporal scope of the study is the financial year of the GHG Report
🎯 The format of the collected data is as follows:
Granularity: Weight per type of product
Measured values: Tonnes
For a comprehensive guidance on data collection delails, read the “Data collection guide” article
Processing across referentials
Two modules exists: One for GHG Protocol, and the other for BEGES, using different emission factor sources.
Types of emission factors
They rely on the same information for the distances travelled by product, but uses different emission factors to convert these distances in kgCO2e (UK GHG Conversion factors for the GHG P module, and ADEME for the BEGES one)