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maxon has released the latest sustainability report. It includes a lot of numbers, but each number represents a complex story. 🔢 Exactly 194 quantitative data/figures were collected and offset with 48 greenhouse gas factors in order to convert the data into tonnes of CO2 for the 2023 greenhouse gas balance. 🕵♂️ Behind each figure are a large number of individual data points such as monthly utility bills, accounts payable, flight bookings (it makes a difference, for example, whether you fly economy, business or first) or mileage statements of vehicles. ❓ For example, how do we proceed to determine the emissions from the electricity purchased from the electricity company? ⬇ First, we need the information on the amount of electricity purchased, the electricity supplier and the purchased electricity product. ⬇ Then we try to determine the specific electricity mix in order to define the appropriate emission factor. Or we ask the electricity company about the emission factors of the purchased electricity. ⬇ "Renewable" is not enough as an indication – you have to know whether solar, water or wind. And a run-of-river power plant is different from a pumped storage power plant. These details are not always known. ⬇ It is therefore important to check in each case which estimates, assumptions or even generic emission factors you continue to work with and where the point has been reached that you cannot provide a reliable figure. ⬇ This would be the process for calculating emissions from electricity in Scope 2 (indirect emissions from the use of purchased energy). In addition, there is a calculation of the fuel- and energy-related emissions from electricity procurement in Scope 3 (indirect emissions that are outside of the companies direct control). 💪 As you can see, this is a lot of work. Thanks to the team from BHP - Brugger und Partner AG for supporting us with their know-how on this ongoing journey. More about sustainability at maxon: https://lnkd.in/eEYBTjpc #sustainability #maxon #report #greenhousegasbalance