Get started with ESG
Your reporting year and sites, your first emissions data, and where to go next.
Ellibo ESG measures your carbon footprint by the GHG Protocol and keeps the people and governance figures that sustainability reports ask for. It reads your other Ellibo apps where the data lives - nothing is copied back or changed there.
1. Check your year and sites
When you start ESG, a first reporting year (your financial year, April to March) and a Head office site are made for you.
- Open Settings > Reporting years & sites.
- Change the year's dates if they're not right, and mark your base year - targets are measured from it.
- Add your other sites: offices, plants, warehouses and shops. Each site's country picks its electricity grid factor.
2. Add electricity and fuel
Open Emissions data > Add data:
- Choose what kind (electricity, fuels, refrigerant leaks, travel, freight, waste, water...).
- Choose what was used - the emission factor - and type how much: kWh from the bill, litres of diesel, kg of refrigerant topped up.
- Pick the date (the last day of the period the bill covers) and the site.
ESG shows the kg CO₂e before you save. Open the line again to attach the bill or a photo as evidence.
Many bills? Import a CSV file - download the template from the Import dialog.
3. Read your books (Standard and up)
Open From your apps, map your expense accounts to spend factors once (Suggest from names does most of it), then press Read now. See Emissions from your apps.
4. Look at your footprint
The Dashboard shows Scope 1, 2 and 3, by month, by kind and by Scope 3 category. Reports > GHG inventory lays it all out the GHG Protocol way.
Next
- Scopes and emissions - what counts where.
- Emission factors - the library and your own factors.
- ESG reports - BRSR, ESRS, GRI, CDP and IFRS S2.