At Plan A, we recognise the critical role that data plays in informed decarbonisation decisions. That's why we designed our Analytics dashboard to provide you with key insights that will guide you on your net-zero journey. The analytics dashboard is enriched with data from your recorded emissions and your set targets and actions.

To get the most out of your analytics dashboard, we recommend starting your decarbonisation journey by setting a target. Once you have set your emissions target, you will be able to track your yearly emissions targets. Similarly, by selecting actions - the steps you take to reduce emissions - you can see the impact various decarbonisation measures will have on your forecasted future emissions.

Whilst the 'emissions forecast' allows you to visualise your current and projected emissions relative to your targets, the 'scorecards' provide the statistics you need to communicate and quantify your alignment and the costs associated with not being aligned. Using these insights together, the Analytics dashboard helps you to assess your alignment with your targets and, when necessary, act early. These insights can also be used to embed climate risk in your organisation’s decision-making process, increasing its long-term resilience and sustainability.

To find the Analytics page, navigate to the 'Reduce emissions' tab and select 'Analytics' on the left.

Depending on your organisational setup and sustainability goals, you may have multiple targets. The Analytics Dashboard provides insights on individual target alignment to ensure granularity. The selected target is displayed at the top of the screen, and you can toggle between targets by selecting 'Change Target' on the right.

For each target, the Analytics Dashboard provides an Emissions Forecast and 'scorecards'.

This scorecard evaluates the alignment between your forecasted emissions and the emissions target for the current year. The main number of this element is an estimate of how much your organisation is expected to overshoot its target for the current year. The smaller number shows the percentage of your organisation's Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) that this overshoot represents. Use this data to empower your company to take the necessary actions needed to meet your targets.

Project and analyse the forecasted cost of exceeding your emissions target for the current year. By foreseeing the financial implications of compensating for the overshoot seen in the 'target alignment check' (not your total emissions), you can take action to proactively manage and mitigate potential compensation costs. Naturally, when your Target Alignment Check is 'in the green' and you are aligned to your annual target, there will be no overshoot to compensate so your cost of compensation will be 0.

The potential cost of compensation is based on the emissions forecasted to surpass the target for the current year. The default potential cost of carbon is 181 EUR per tCO2e. This is the average cost of high-quality offsets in a portfolio of offsetting projects that focus on carbon removal with long-lived storage. In the case that you have selected carbon credits you wish to purchase, you can set your own internal carbon pricing by clicking the 'edit' icon.

This scorecard shows your emissions intensity for the current year. Emissions intensity refers to your emissions per a given metric. This scorecard shows your emissions per employee and is calculated by dividing the forecasted total emissions for the current year by the latest employee count recorded in your Organisational Data. All emission scopes are considered in the calculation.

This is particularly useful in understanding alignment to intensity targets.

This powerful tool combines several data points to model your projected future emissions. These are based on your current emissions and Action Plan, taking into account the start and end dates of each of your selected actions. Within one chart, your past and forecasted emissions are displayed in contrast to your target, yearly target pathway and business-as-usual (BAU) forecast.

By comparing your emissions forecast to your target pathway, you can visualise your progress towards goals and anticipate where you may need to implement more actions to achieve them. Similarly, comparing your past and forecasted emissions to your BAU forecast allows you to visualise the ambitiousness and impact of your Action Plan.

To ensure your BAU forecast reflects your business' growth projections, click 'Configure growth data', toggle 'Use advanced growth data' in the pop-up box, and enter your yearly expected revenue growth (CAGR) and/or yearly expected Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) growth.

This data is usually retrievable from upper management within your Finance and Operations departments. However, this is generally considered sensitive information, so this may not always be possible. As such, by default, we assume an annual 5% emissions increase to generate a BAU forecast.