Each year, as the CDP questionnaire becomes available, our dev team works to update Scope 5 functionality to best serve our CDP respondent clients based on the new questions.
In the following recipes, we'll show how to use Scope 5's current functionality to answer each question.
For details on how the CDP's questionnaire changed between 2022 and 2023, please refer to their CDP Questions Changes and Map: 2022 to 2023 document.
If you have any questions about the recipes or using Scope 5 to answer any of the CDP's quantitative or qualitative questions, please contact us. We are available to support you in your CDP responses.
Most of the quantitative information requested in Module 7 - Climate Change can be generated using the Distribution Reports in Scope 5. In order to generate accurate reports, be sure to follow these guidelines:
- Generate reports from the top level node (in the Node Navigator context) to be sure that all the organization's trackers are available.
- Get your data in order by closing any significant data gaps. See this article in the Scope 5 Knowledge Base for tips on finding and resolving these gaps.
- For all reports, Start Date and End Date should correspond to the first and last days of the reporting year. So - for example, to report for calendar year 2012, Start Date should be 01/01/2012 and End Date should be 12/31/2012.
- For many reports, you'll need to select a subset of the available trackers. See the article Selecting Trackers for a Chart or Report to learn how to do so.
- After running any report, be sure to check for unexpected exclusions. Exclusions will be indicated by the appearance of a yellow warning symbol in any of the report rows and by the appearance of an exclusions link at the top of the report titled Show Excluded Primary Trackers. See the following images:
To see details of the exclusions, click on the Show Excluded Primary Trackers link at the top of the report. (Make sure you click on Update Data after resolving a tracker exclusion, so that your report reflects the most up to date activity data available in the account).
- If you are running a normalizing report, be sure to check for unexpected exclusions by clicking on Show Excluded Intensity Trackers. A table will appear below the report with the exclusions listed.
- Scope 5 generated reports can be printed for inclusion in external reports. To do so, click on the printer icon (just below the report heading) once the report has been generated.
- Scope 5 reports can be downloaded in CSV format. To do so, click on the table icon (just below the report heading) once the report has been generated.
- For the sake of brevity, certain less common conditions are not discussed in these recipes but can be accommodated in Scope 5 using custom tag groups. If any unique conditions apply, please contact us via the help button on the right of all application screens for technical support.
The Scope 5 team is always available to help, whether that means navigating the application, making changes to your account configuration or just answering questions.
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