Announcements & New Features

New Articles & Announcements

• Introducing Single Sign-On

General Settings & Help

Alerts

• Why am I Getting Extra/Missing Record Alerts?
• Detailed Listing of Tracker Alerts: Warnings & Exclusions
• Configuring Tracker Alert Thresholds

Scope 5 Basics

• ★ Scope 5 Glossary

Sustainability Terms

• How To Calculate Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e)

Scope 5 Settings

• How to Define a Facility's Country
• Changing Account Preferences and Settings
• Configuring a Custom Fiscal Year
• How To Change the Base Year of a Tracker or an Account
• Custom Chart Colors
• Outlier Detection Settings

Admins

• Administrator Types
• Bulk-Messaging Administrators
• Creating Data Provider Admins
• Data Provider Admin Interface

Hierarchy

• Search to Navigate
• Custom Tracking Node Types

Data Entry & Updates

• Batch Upload - Resolving Encoding Errors
• Batch Uploading Activity Data
• Data Coherence
• How to Update Charts to Include New Data

Trackers & Tracker Settings

• Requiring Attachments with Activity Records
• Using Scope 5 Resources to Quantify Fugitive Emissions & Refrigerants
• Notes on Setting up Trackers
• Ongoing Trackers vs. Accruing Trackers
• Periodic vs. Aperiodic Tracker Recordkeeping
• Connected Trackers

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Features & Functionality

Data Integrity

• Scheduling Admin Prompts
• Tracker Responsibilities
• Getting Your Data in Time for Reporting
• Using the Tracker and Activity Ledger Change Log

Projects, Targets & Forecasts

• Setting Long Term Targets

Scope 2 Reporting

• How to Track RECs in Scope 5
• Scope 2 Tracker Setting

Storyboards

• Storyboards

Charts & Reports

• Using Reports to Compare Results Across Time Periods
• Downloading Distribution Reports
• Downloading Charts
• How to Copy a Report
• What is the difference between choosing Tracker and choosing Tracking Node as the Normalizing Grouping in a Chart?

Custom Resources

• Notes on Setting Up Custom Resources, Custom Units & Impacts
• How to Create a Custom Refrigerant Resource

Scope 5 Resource Libraries

• Normalizing and Operations Resource Library
• Scope 5 GHG Resource Library Maintenance
• Benchmarking Libraries and Averaging Trackers
• Scope 5 TCR Resource Library - General Notes
• Scope 5 TCR Resource Library - 2019 Mobile Combustion Update
• Scope 5 TCR Resource Library – 2016 Mobile Combustion Update

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Automated Data Transfer (ADT)

• Automatic Data Transfer Services
• Connecting to ENERGYSTAR Portfolio Manager

Tips & Advanced

Audit Trail

• Audit Trail Functionality
• Data Quality Control and Audit Trail
• How to Determine which Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) were Used in a Report

Tips & Best Practices

• How to Track Facility Area
• Tips for Working with an Auditor
• Trailing 12-Month Usage - How Much? or How Fast?
• Tips for a successful rollout and reconciling year over year data

Data Processing - Explaining the Activity and Impact Numbers That You See

• Are You Making Material Mistakes in Your GHG Accounting?
• Converting Activity Data to Impact Data

External Reporting

CDP Recipes

• CDP Guidelines for Scope 2 Emissions
• Get Your Data in Order in Preparation for Your CDP Report (or any other report)
• Guidelines on Improving Your CDP Score with Scope 5
• Module 7 - Climate Change - Emissions Breakdown
• Module 7 - Climate Change - Emissions Methodology and Exclusions
• Module 7 - Climate Change - Energy-related Activities

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Old News

Past Feature Announcements

• New Feature Announcement - October 2013
• New Feature Announcement - July 2013
• Announcement: Advanced Chart Types

Old Announcements

• What Happened to my Goal Charts?
• AR5 Global Warming Potentials now available
• New CDP Recipes - Updated for 2023
• New Features Announcement - January 2016
• Scope 5 and Heartbleed