Environmental Accounts
Continia Sustainability uses environmental accounts to define key business areas and associated activities for carbon accounting. Continia Sustainability comes with the following default environmental accounts:
- Facilities - lets you add any location owned, leased, or franchised by the company; offices, office floors, factories, docks, and so on. Refer to the Adding a Facility Card article to learn more about facility cards and their benefits.
- Vehicles - lets you add any owned or leased manner of transport, distinguishing between Land, Sea, and Air vehicles. It can also include other mobile equipment such as forklifts. Refer to the Adding a Vehicle Card article to learn more about vehicle cards and their benefits.
- Purchased goods and services - you can define the categories that you want to work with regarding the purchasing of goods and services. Refer to the Adding a Purchased Goods and Services card article for more information.
- Transport and distribution - lets you monitor transportation services with vehicles that you do not own or lease. This makes it possible to account for the emissions caused by transportation and distribution services, such as inbound logistics, outbound logistics, and transportation between company facilities. Refer to the Adding a Transport and Distribution card article for more information.
- Waste - lets you monitor different waste types. For example, it allows you to indicate if the waste material is hazardous. Refer to the Adding a Waste Card article for more information.
- Business travel - defines reporting on business trips using taxis, flights, trains, and accounting for hotel stays. If you adhere to a certain Emission Factor database, you could consider defining flights in terms of distance and whether your employees fly business or economy class. Refer to the Adding a Business Travel Card article for more information.
- Employee commuting - to report emissions from employees' travel to the workplace or home office, including land, rail, sea, air travel, cycling, or walking. Refer to the Adding an Employee Commuting Card article to learn more about how to monitor emissions coming from commuting.
- Sold products - allows you to define emissions for the products that you sell; their use, processing, and end-of-life treatment. Refer to the Adding a Sold Products Card article for more information.
- Investments - defines the emissions related to the investments your company makes. For example, investments in wind farms and pension funds. Refer to the Adding an Investments Card article for more information.