Carbon Accounting for Business Travel
New features related to emission calculation have been developed in Bezala, enabling data collection directly within the travel expense program. The next step will be to automate the calculation process.
New directives increasingly require companies to report on sustainability. Calculating the carbon footprint, or emissions, is an essential part of sustainability reporting.
Emission calculation is divided into three categories:
- Direct emissions from own operations (Scope 1)
- Indirect emissions related to purchased energy (Scope 2)
- Emissions from the procurement of goods and services and travel, among others (Scope 3)
Traditionally, the majority of emissions fall under Scope 3, which includes business travel.
Coming soon:
Comprehensive Emission Calculation for Travel-Related Expenses
In the coming months, we will release an emission calculation feature for travel-related expenses.
Bezala will provide more accurate emission calculations than typical methods based solely on monetary values. This is achieved by using the best practices for each expense type, such as those defined by Defra or monetary emission factors.
This feature will be available to all our customers at no additional cost. We will provide more information about emission calculation when it is ready for deployment.
Possible already now:
Bezala Enables Data Collection
The data used for emission calculation has traditionally been derived mainly from financial management information. However, to simplify the calculation, new data sources are needed. Particularly, Scope 3 emissions have been difficult to measure due to insufficient data. Therefore, we wanted to enable data collection during the creation of travel expense reports.
Conditional Fields in Receipt Forms
We already assist in collecting data for emission calculation using conditional fields. For example, you can ask users to indicate the number of layovers when selecting flights, the number of hotel nights when selecting hotels, etc. Your emission calculation team can help define the relevant questions.
You can add additional fields specific to expense types in the expense type settings. We call these fields conditional fields because their visibility depends on the user selecting a particular expense type.
You can add conditional fields behind expense types on the Payment Methods and Expense Types page.
Vehicle Classes
In Bezala, you can select the fuel type when claiming mileage reimbursement. This allows those responsible for emission calculation in your company to later view directly in Bezala how many kilometers have been driven with cars of each power source and calculate the resulting emissions according to their defined metrics.
You can request to enable different power source classes for the mileage reimbursement form from our customer support at support@bezala.com
Help for Sustainability Work and Expense Compensation
If your company needs help with sustainability work, such as sustainability reporting or just emission calculation, we recommend Greenstep as a sustainability partner.
