Scope 3 dashboard
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Summary of Scope 3 Dashboard
The Scope 3 dashboard enables organizations to calculate and track scope 3 emissions, providing insights into their environmental impact and ensuring compliance with regulations. Scope 3 emissions are indirect emissions occurring in the value chain, such as those from procurement activities. Integrated with the ESG Workspace, the dashboard is essential for ESG program managers and administrators to monitor trends in scope 3 emissions.
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Key Features
- Plugin Activation: To use the dashboard, activate the Scope 3 emissions management (snesgscope3) plugin, which begins data collection once configured.
- Metric Definitions: A total of 10 metric definitions are provided for data collection, initially inactive, and must be activated for use.
- Reporting Categories: The dashboard allows reporting on various greenhouse gas (GHG) categories, including:
- Category 1: Purchased Goods and Services
- Category 2: Capital Goods
- Data Types: The dashboard displays data based on spend category, supplier category, and GHG category, aiding in understanding emissions sources.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Scope 3 dashboard, organizations can:
- Estimate indirect emissions by applying spend-based emission factors to expenditure across different categories.
- Analyze environmental impacts through methodologies like Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
- Identify opportunities for emissions reduction by evaluating supplier categories and their respective contributions to emissions.
- Generate comprehensive reports to assess the sustainability impact of scope 3 emissions, allowing for detailed analyses of underlying metrics and data sources.
The Scope 3 dashboard helps you to calculate and track scope 3 emissions to gain a complete understanding of your organization's environmental impact and ensure compliance with evolving regulations. Scope 3 emissions refer to indirect emissions in your value chain, for example, the emissions generated from procurement of equipment.
You can access the Scope 3 dashboard by selecting the 
icon on the Operational Sustainability Workspace.
- Category 1 Purchased goods and services: This category refers to the extraction, production, and transportation of goods and services purchased or acquired by the reporting company in the reporting year.
- Category 2 Capital goods: This category refers to the extraction, production, and transportation of capital goods purchased or acquired by the reporting company in the reporting year. Capital goods are physical assets like buildings, machinery, and equipment that are used to produce consumer goods or services.
The dashboard displays the scope 3 data for GHG category, spend category, and supplier category. The following sections explain these categories. Understanding these types of data helps you to understand the data that is displayed on the Scope 3 dashboard.
Spend category data
Spend-based emission factors assign typical levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to different spending categories. For instance, the emissions generated from spending $1 on office equipment may differ from those generated from spending $1 on transportation services. By multiplying the amount spent in each category by the relevant emission factor, you can estimate your indirect emissions. For example, if you categorize all your laptops as assets spend category, you can aggregate the expenditure on all those assets and then multiply the figure by the emission factor value provided by the Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO).
Supplier category data
- Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) data: EEIO data integrates environmental data with economic input-output models to assess the environmental impacts associated with economic activities. This type of data is crucial for understanding how economic activities contribute to environmental pressures and can be used to evaluate the environmental impacts of different sectors and products throughout their supply chains. This data can either be entered manually in the ServiceNow instance or can be uploaded in bulk if the data is available in a spreadsheet. EEIO data is derived from the emission tables that are filled by activating from the Unified content management application.
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) data: LCA data is used for evaluating the environmental impacts associated with all stages of a product's life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. LCA data is crucial for conducting these assessments and includes detailed information about the environmental impacts of materials, processes, energy use, and waste management throughout the product life cycle.
- Supplier category data: Each organization has several suppliers for a variety of goods and services. Some examples of suppliers are laptop suppliers, monitor suppliers, desktop suppliers, and so on. You can categorize each of the suppliers into different categories. The scope 3 dashboard displays the emissions generated by these suppliers using the metric definitions that are provided by default. This information helps you to identify the scope for reduction of emissions. This data can either be entered manually in the ServiceNow instance or can be uploaded in bulk if the data is available in a spreadsheet.
GHG category
Emissions from purchased goods and services, classified under Scope 3 category 1 of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and capital goods classified under category 2, refer to the indirect emissions generated from a company's procurement of goods and services. The GHG category also uses the EEIO, LCA, and supplier calculation methodologies.