Organizational Carbon Footprint Flashcards
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A retail company leases office space in a multi-tenant building and pays a utility bill that covers the whole building. Under the operational control approach, how should the electricity emissions be reported?
Answer: Report only the estimated proportion attributable to the leased space as Scope 2
Under operational control, a tenant reports only its proportional share of building energy use; if the landlord controls the building systems, it may be Scope 3.
Which GHG Protocol category addresses emissions from the end-of-life treatment of products sold by a company?
Answer: Scope 3 Category 12
Scope 3 Category 12 (End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products) covers emissions from waste disposal and processing of products after consumers discard them.
What is the key distinction between the 'financial control' and 'equity share' consolidation approaches?
Answer: Equity share consolidates emissions proportional to ownership stake; financial control consolidates 100% if financial control exists
Equity share allocates emissions in proportion to the company's ownership percentage, while financial control consolidates 100% of emissions from entities the company financially controls.
An airline calculates employee commuting emissions using national average data because it cannot collect employee-specific travel data. This best describes which Scope 3 calculation method?
Answer: Average-data method
The average-data method uses secondary, industry-average emission factors when primary activity data from specific suppliers or employees is unavailable.
Why is it important to distinguish between biogenic CO₂ and fossil CO₂ in a GHG inventory?
Answer: Biogenic CO₂ is considered carbon-neutral in many accounting frameworks because it is part of the short-term carbon cycle
Biogenic CO₂ (from burning biomass) is reported separately and treated as carbon-neutral in many frameworks because the carbon was recently absorbed from the atmosphere.
A company sets a Science-Based Target (SBT). Which of the following is a key requirement for Scope 3 targets under the SBTi framework?
Answer: Scope 3 targets are required when Scope 3 emissions exceed 40% of total Scope 1+2+3 emissions
SBTi requires companies to set Scope 3 targets when Scope 3 emissions represent 40% or more of total (Scope 1+2+3) emissions.
A company purchases Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) but does not retire them. Can it claim zero-carbon electricity under the market-based Scope 2 method?
Answer: No, RECs must be retired to make a credible claim of renewable electricity use
RECs must be retired (cancelled) in a registry to ensure they are not double-counted; purchasing without retiring does not constitute a valid market-based claim.