To calculate your Use of Sold Product emissions, you will need to see what data your organisation has available and choose a calculation method accordingly.
The Fuel consumption and Vehicle: Average fuel consumption | Distance driven methods calculates released from vehicles and electrical products you have sold during their lifetime. Fuel consumption data is usually best retrieved from payment receipts of filling and charging stations, which can be paper-based or electronic. Telematics Systems of your vehicles may also contain this data.
The Fashion: Use of sold products method calculates the indirect emissions generated during the care of sold fashion products. These emissions result from activities such as washing, drying, dry cleaning, and ironing. As care phases are typically printed on the labels of fashion products, internal teams such as Quality Assurance or Purchasing may have access to this data. Your Sales department should have data on the quantity of products sold.
The Software method calculates the emissions generated by the energy consumption required to operate the sold software. You will need data on the usage time or data volume the software uses during the reporting period. You will also need to categorise the type of component and device the software operates on. Often data on data volume and devices used can be gathered by user analytics, customer surveys and cloud provider metrics.
The Plan A Sustainability Platform also accepts Bring Your Own Emissions (BYOE) data. Bring Your Own Emissions allows you to upload your own pre-calculated emissions to the platform. This emissions could be supplied by consultants or other carbon accounting platforms you worked with previously.
If you are using the Bring Your Own Emission Factor (BYOEF) method, emission factors can be sourced from databases, consultants, and suppliers. Please ensure these emission factors are reputable and align with your reporting needs.
If you can't access data in the required formats, or have data for business activities not captured in our templates, please take a look at our advice here.