Glossary Flashcards

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EAP: Early Access Program

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How Collaborate squad calls their pilot user testing program

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Emission of CO2-equivalent gas produced by one activity, expressed in mass of CO2 per activity unit. Example: EF for driving a car in the USA is 122gCO2e/km in average

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calculate emissions per a relevant unit of measure (example: total lifetime emissions / number of functional units performed over lifetime of sold products)

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A company accounts for GHG emissions from operations according to its share of equity in the operation

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Software to do data integration and data cleaning. Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is the process of combining data from multiple sources into a large, central repository called a data warehouse. ETL uses a set of business rules to clean and organize raw data and prepare it for storage, data analytics, and machine learning (ML).

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Polluters who would find it costly to reduce their emission are allowed to buy emission allowances from polluters that can abate at lower costs. There are two main types of trading systems: “Cap-and-trade systems” and “baseline-and-credit systems”. In a cap-and-trade system, an upper limit on emissions is fixed, and emission permits are either auctioned out or distributed for free according specific criteria. Under a baseline-and-credit system, there is no fixed limit on emissions, but polluters that reduce their emissions more than they otherwise are obliged to can earn ‘credits’ that they sell to others who need them in order to comply with regulations they are subject to.

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Concept of considering emissions and reduction targets specifically by their impact on Forest, Land and Agriculture. The SBTi protocole now requires to do reporting with this split in data. Quantis has a very strong experience with FLAG EFs.

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A high-level picture of a company’s emissions that encompasses all its activities.

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A greenhouse gas (GHG or GhG) is a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range, causing the greenhouse effect and global warming

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Provides the standards for measuring climate-warming emissions. https://ghgprotocol.org/

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A quantified list of an organization’s GHG emissions and sources.

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A factor describing the radiative forcing impact (degree of harm to the atmosphere) of one unit of a given GHG relative to one unit of CO₂.

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Emissions that are a consequence of the activities of the reporting company, but occur at sources owned or controlled by another company.

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Definition of a proposed set of changes (historically layers) to reduce one's emisison in a particular area "switch our France fleet of cars to electrical”

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Customer success representative responsible for a big client account.

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A product carbon footprint (PCF) calculation is a subset of a lifecycle assessment (LCA). While the PCF calculation focuses specifically on the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, use, and disposal of a product, an LCA evaluates a wider range of environmental impacts across the entire life cycle of a product. More detail here and visual here

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Collections of data that provide information on the environmental impacts of products and processes throughout their life cycles, from raw material extraction to disposal or end-of-life treatment

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A MACC (Marginal Abatement Cost Curve) presents the costs or savings expected from different initiatives, alongside the potential volume of emissions that could be reduced if implemented. They use the metric of dollars per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent – usually represented as USD/tCO2e.

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Material means Important, Significant. We talk about Materiality in carbon accounting/reporting, it is about only caring about emissions that are significant overall (like focusing on the hot spots of the footprint).

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Establishes an acceptable percentage (or absolute quantity) difference between - the company’s emissions inventory - and the verifier’s belief of what the company’s emissions would be if all omitted sources were accounted for

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BCG’s big bosses. They are 1600 of them, but they kinda all report just to themselves 😅

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Separating a set of items into subsets that are mutually exclusive (ME) and collectively exhaustive (CE). Ie breaking down in separated parts.

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emission reductions from 2020 on through commitments of countries, done during Paris COP.

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Put simply, net zero means cutting greenhouse gas emissions to as close to zero as possible, with any remaining emissions re-absorbed from the atmosphere, by oceans and forests for instance. To keep global warming to no more than 1.5°C – as called for in the Paris Agreement – emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050.

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include – Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS): Capturing CO2 before it gets emitted and storing it somehow which prevents it from leaking into the atmosphere – Nature-Based Solutions: Using nature's innate ability to store carbon using the power of the sun (i.e. trees)

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Boundaries that determine the operations owned or controlled by the reporting company, depending on the consolidation approach taken (equity or control approach).

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Product carbon footprint specifically refers to the amount of GHG emissions associated with the production, use, and disposal of a product. It is usually measured in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) and includes emissions from sources such as energy use, transportation, and manufacturing processes.

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Product in partnership with CDP (@CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project) to collect emissions from suppliers

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Team within BCG that coordinates with CO2 AI on common deals

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In the context of the GHG Protocol, procurement refers to the process of acquiring goods or services from external suppliers. This includes the purchase of raw materials, intermediate goods, and finished goods, as well as the acquisition of services such as consulting, transportation, and maintenance.

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Meeting that the Sales team runs with every client every 3 months to make sure everything is ok with them and look for upsell/crossell/renewal.

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Positive radiative forcing means Earth receives more incoming energy from sunlight than it radiates to space. This net gain of energy will cause warming.

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A document that organizations use to invite vendors/suppliers to submit proposals to fulfill a specific need or requirement. It outlines the project details, expectations, evaluation criteria, and timelines. The purpose of an RFP is to gather competitive bids and select the most suitable vendor or provider for the project. CO2 AI has to respond to RFP for prospects, but also our clients send RFP to their suppliers.

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The list of initiatives that were selected by the client as the plan ahead for their reduction. It is applied to a given footprint and projected in the future to see what future footprints should look like

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direct emissions from owned or controlled sources (company owned chemical processes, vehicles, power and heat production)

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indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating and cooling consumed (purchased electricity from the grid, purchased heat, fuel in leased vehicles etc.)

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includes all other indirect emissions that occur in a company’s value chain (production of purchased materials, transportation of purchased fuels / sold products / waste, employee business travel, product usage etc)

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A global initiative focused on the food and drink industry. It aims to support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of sustainable agriculture practices involving stakeholders across the food value chain. https://saiplatform.org/programmes-and-tools/ (mentioned by Danone)

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Methodology that allows to determine organisation’s emission reduction targets based on the latest climate-science

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includes all other indirect emissions that are linked to distribution and storage, use or end of life of the product, after the company’s scope 1 and 2 activities.

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Physical intensity (based on fixed budget allocated to each sector). Reduction in emissions relative to a specific business metric (tCO2e/ vehicle produced and gCO2/vehicle km)

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Program to unify sustainability data collection for dairy farms https://saiplatform.org/sdp/

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Backend module to match business activities and Emission Factors

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A qualitative or quantitative criteria used to define a significant structural change. It is the responsibility of the company/ verifier to determine the “significance threshold” for considering base year emissions recalculation. In most cases the “significance threshold” depends on the use of the information, the characteristics of the company, and the features of structural changes.

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SKU stands for "stock keeping unit" and is a number that retailers use to differentiate products and track inventory levels. An SKU is typically eight alphanumeric digits long. Products are assigned different SKU numbers based on various characteristics, such as price, manufacturer, color, style, type, and size. SKUs aren’t universal; they’re meant to be unique to your business and can be tailored to fit your needs or those of your vendors and customers.

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A supplier that provides or sells products directly to the reporting company. A tier 1 supplier is a company with which the reporting company has a purchase order for goods or services. Tier 1 suppliers are companies with which the reporting company has a purchase order for goods or services (e.g., materials, parts, components, etc.).

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A supplier that provides or sells products directly to the reporting company’s tier 1 supplier. A tier 2 supplier is a company with which the reporting company’s tier 1 supplier has a purchase order for goods and services.

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Consortium in chemical industry interested in using Product Ecosystem to exchange emission information. https://www.tfs-initiative.com/

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The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a global, asset-owner led initiative/methodology which assesses companies' preparedness for the transition to a low carbon economy

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The amount of money taken by a business in a particular period. Synonym to “revenues”.

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1. Statistical definition A parameter associated with the result of a measurement that characterizes the dispersion of the values that could be reasonably attributed to the measured quantity. (e.g., the sample variance or coefficient of variation). 2. Inventory definition A general and imprecise term which refers to the lack of certainty in emissions-related data resulting from any causal factor, such as the application of non-representative factors or methods, incomplete data on sources and sinks, lack of transparency etc. Reported uncertainty information typically specifies a quantitative estimates of the likely or perceived difference between a reported value and a qualitative description of the likely causes of the difference.

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is an international environmental treatment with the objective to "stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”

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All of the upstream and downstream activities associated with the operations of the reporting company, including the use of sold products by consumers and the end-of-life treatment of sold products after consumer use.

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used to talk about emission reduction targets

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The XDC is a methodology that measures a company's contribution to global warming by expressing how much the earth would warm up by 2050, if all companies were as emission-intensive as the company in question