Owned/Leased vehicles

Vehicle use includes travelling in vehicles that are owned or leased. Owned electric vehicles should be reported as part of your Scope 2 electricity usage.

GHGP reporting position:

Scope 1
Scope 3 C8: Upstream leased assets

Preferred units of measurement:

Volume: litres, cubic metres
Distance: miles, km
Currency: GBP, USD

Data required

Vehicle-use emissions should be calculated in this priority order:

Fuel-use
Total distance travelled by vehicle type or
Total spend on fuel

For business travel with a supplier, eg. a trainline, taxi or airline report in Scope 3 C6 (Business travel). The data required is similar but suppliers are unlikely to provide fuel-usage data.

Vehicle use data in this order of priority:

Total volume of fuel used or
Total distance travelled by vehicle type or
Total spend on fuel
Mode of transport
Unit of Measure - litres,
Dates of consumption
Origin/Destination locations
Distance travelled
Number of trips
Vehicle name and/or type
Any other data, eg. purchasing data
Assigned Segment

Not all fields may be applicable.

Who in your organisation has this data

Office manager
Operations manager
Procurement team

Sources of this data

Travel records
Expenses system
Accounting, purchasing, or ERP systems

Preparing the data

Preparing data in a flat file structure, will allow you to add your data to Consequence quickly and get carbon footprint calculations automatically.

Template: Vehicle-use and travel data

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