Configuring Your Emissions Accounting Boundaries
Define which emissions categories and subcategories are relevant to your organisation and hide the rest.
Cozero's Corporate Carbon Footprint module is built around the full GHG Protocol category and subcategory structure. For many organisations, however, only a portion of those categories actually applies to their operations. This feature allows you to define your own accounting boundaries by enabling only the categories and subcategories relevant to your business, so that every user in your organisation works within a clean, scoped environment.
Overview
Carbon accounting in larger organisations is rarely handled by a single team. Operational users across sites, business units, and departments are often responsible for collecting and logging their own activity data, and many of them are not carbon accounting experts.
When users are presented with the full list of GHG Protocol categories, including many that have no relevance to their company, it creates noise. Data gets entered in the wrong place, sections get skipped, and the overall experience feels unnecessarily complex. This is especially true during onboarding, when users are encountering the platform for the first time.
With this feature, Cozero can now configure which emissions categories and subcategories are visible for your organisation. Users only see what is relevant to them, making data collection simpler, more accurate, and easier to manage at scale.
What Has Changed
Cozero now supports enabling and disabling specific emissions categories and subcategories at the organisation level. Once a category or subcategory is disabled, it is hidden consistently across the following areas of the platform:
- Manual log entry flows: disabled categories and subcategories no longer appear in the selection steps when creating a log entry
- Bulk import templates: the downloadable template is automatically scoped to your active categories only
- Bulk import dropdowns and validation: disabled options are removed from the category and subcategory selections during the import flow, preventing mapping errors at the point of upload
This configuration applies to all users in your organisation, ensuring a consistent and focused experience regardless of where or how data is being entered.
Who This Is For
This feature is available to all Cozero CCF customers. It is particularly valuable for organisations that:
- Have many decentralised operational users logging data across different business units or locations
- Work within a defined or limited emissions accounting scope, for example organisations that have excluded certain GHG Protocol scopes or categories from their inventory boundary
- Are onboarding new users or teams and want to reduce the risk of errors from the start
How to Get It Configured
At this stage, enabling and disabling categories is set up by the Cozero Customer Success team on request. There is no self-serve admin interface yet.
To request a configuration for your organisation, please reach out to us at support@cozero.io with the following:
- The categories and/or subcategories you would like to disable
- Any context on your accounting boundaries or scope that would help us configure the right setup for you
Our team will apply the changes and confirm once your accounting boundaries are active.
FAQs
Will disabling a category affect my existing log entries? No. Disabling a category or subcategory only affects what is visible during new data entry flows. Existing log entries created under a now-disabled category remain in the system and continue to be included in your emissions calculations.
Can we re-enable a category later if our scope changes? Yes. Simply reach out to support@cozero.io and we will update the configuration.
Does this apply to all users in our organisation? Yes. The configuration is applied at the organisation level, so all users across your account will see the same set of active categories and subcategories.
Can categories be hidden for specific business units rather than the whole organisation? Currently, the configuration is organisation-wide. Business unit-level granularity is something we are looking at for future iterations but is not yet supported.
What if we are unsure which categories to disable? Your Cozero Customer Success contact can help you review your current setup and identify a sensible accounting scope based on your operations. Do not hesitate to get in touch.
Does this feature apply to Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) as well? The feature is currently most relevant for CCF customers. Reach out to support@cozero.io if you have questions about your specific setup.
Questions or Feedback?
If you have any questions about your current category setup or would like to request a configuration change, please contact us at support@cozero.io. We are happy to help you define the right accounting boundaries for your organisation.