The Reporting section is where you analyze, visualize, and export your emissions data. It contains powerful tools for understanding and communicating your carbon footprint.
Report Builder
The Report Builder (also known as the Emissions Overview) is your primary tool for analyzing emissions data. It provides an interactive chart and data table that you can customize with various filters and groupings.
Using the Report Builder
Date Range — Select the time period you want to analyze
Group By — Choose how to break down your data (by location, scope, category, source, etc.)
Filters — Narrow results by specific locations, scopes, categories, or other criteria
Chart Type — Switch between different visualization styles
The Report Builder displays both a visual chart and a detailed data table below it. You can use this to explore trends, compare locations, identify your largest emission sources, and track changes over time.
Tip: Use the "Group By" dropdown to switch perspectives quickly. Grouping by Scope shows your Scope 1, 2, and 3 breakdown, while grouping by Location reveals which sites have the largest footprint.
Report Types
Depending on how you have your data set up within Carbonhound you might want to generate different reports for your stakeholders. We have set up reporting so that it can be flexible depending on what your needs are. Let’s dive in to the several different types of reports:
Business Unit
If you have configured your Business Units you can generate reports on your total emissions by business units. Select the business units you would like to compare and report on, select the time period you would like to report and then select “Run Report”
Category
Category report types break down your emissions by the 15 GHG Protocol Categories, this report is helpful if you want to see which categories have higher emissions, and compare them against each other.
Scope
Similar to the Category report type, the Scope report type breaks down your emissions by the 3 different Scopes established within the GHG Protocol. This is a helpful report to be able to see total scope emissions and identify key areas for reduction.
Collections
If you have configured collections within your Carbonhound system you can use this report type to view emissions for that group of sources.
Facility
These reports let you report your emissions by your sources within a specific facility. You can manage your facility sources within the Location Details, in your Sources Page.
Benchmarks
This report type allows you to compare your business to others. You need to ensure that you have the related intensity metrics configured and data inputted to use these.
I.e. for "per Employee" benchmarks you need to have a related intensity metric (See data section - Intensity Metrics) for Employees and completed employee count data inputted for that period. Otherwise we don't know how to calculate per employee emissions.
Generating a Report
There are various settings you can configure to ensure you are seeing the numbers you need.
Report Type
Each report type is explained above, selecting a report type will change the available filters you can apply to a report.
Display
This allows you to filter which items you want to include in the report, so for example of you select the Scope report type, this filter will let you choose which included scopes you want to display (e.g Scope 1, Scope 2), for a category report you can view and filter by category etc.
Output unit
This allows you to choose the output unit of your report, this can either be KG Co2e, Metric Tonnes CO2e or pretax cost if you have that data inputted into the platform.
Target
If you have added targets through the "My Company" tab then you can layer these on top of your reports to check your progress
View total or intensity metric
This allows you to view your data as a total, or divide it by an intensity metric to see how efficiently you are growing.
Reporting Period
These are pre-set date ranges so you can quickly select what period you would like to report on. If you would like to set a custom date range, please select the “custom” option, and generate your report.
View By
You can select to view your data by month, quarter, or year and by fiscal or calendar period.
Exports
Exports allow you to extract your emissions data in formats suitable for external reporting, presentations, or regulatory submissions.
Your reporting page allows you to not only view your data sliced in a way that is helpful to you but also export your data so you can use it in your reports or spreadsheets.
Creating an Export
To create a report export enter all your reporting parameters on the Reporting tab and select Request excel button.
Naming your Export
Once you select Request excel button you will see an overlay that will ask you for a name for your export, this is not a mandatory field but can be helpful for you in the future when you are indexing your existing reports.
Your Exports
It can take a few moments for your requested excel to generate and be available for download. You can see your in progress and completed Excel Exports within the Your Exports tab. You can download your completed exports.
Currently exports are only available as excels.
Need a report you don’t see on your reporting page?
We can always generate custom reports for you if you require additional data. Please reach out to your point of contact
Table
Underneath the chart there is a table that you can expand and select into. The detail within this table goes all the way down to the Activity Item so you can drill down and identify which Sources and Data Points are higher.