Introduction to emission types and environmental accounts

  • 3 min.

Capturing a clear picture of your company’s key business activities is central to carbon accounting and reporting. In Continia Sustainability, Emission Types and Environmental Accounts are where you define your business activities in different categories.

Emission types include:

  • Fuel, such as the types of fuel for boilers, generators and vehicles
  • Industrial processes, including industrial such as plastic recycling, and land-use processes such as sheep grazing
  • Fugitive emissions, including refrigerant gases used in air conditioning and refrigeration units
  • Electricity, such as the composition of your regional power grid and your provider’s mix of electricity generation
  • Steam, heating and cooling, purchased from local providers

Environmental account types include:

  • Facilities, to capture data about energy use, waste, machinery and appliances used at each of your company premises
  • Vehicles, to capture data about usage of company and lease vehicles such as passenger cars, delivery vans and warehouse equipment
  • Purchased goods and services, to capture the details of the extraction, production, and transportation of goods and services that you purchased or acquired
  • Transport and distribution, to monitor transportation services that you do not own or lease, but are necessary in inbound logistics and outbound logistics as well as between company facilities
  • Waste, to categorize different waste types, such as hazardous or recyclable
  • Business travel, for reporting on business trips using taxis, flights, trains, and hotels
  • Employee commuting, to capture data about emissions from employees' travel to the workplace or home office, and to account for emissions from electricity and heating usage by employees working from home
  • Sold products, to define the use, processing and end-of-life for the products that you sell

Scenario

This module follows a series of scenarios using the Business Central demonstration company, Cronus. Follow along with Ester, who needs to set up Cronus’ business activities as environmental accounts and emission types in Continia Sustainability.