The Climate Strategy is a fully-fledged module in the tool that allows you to define and visualise your reduction targets by comparing them to your activity projections.
This is where you will define your action plan to ensure consistency between your emission reduction targets and your company's activity projections.
Beyond the figures, Toovalu provides you with graphs to quickly verify this consistency and see which of your actions have the most or the least impact.
Let us examine point by point how this module works.
1/ Reduction Targets
This is the first step of your strategy; you need to define reduction targets by setting a scope. This scope includes a reference year and a target year.
To access the settings for your targets, you need to click on the icon with the pencil.
Defining your targets will allow you to create your overall emissions reduction trajectory.
A detailed article on targets and trajectory is available here
2/ Activity Projection
This is the second step of your Strategy.
This feature allows you to model the impact of your organisation's activity projections in terms of emissions in a "Business as Usual" scenario (i.e., without an action plan) by the target year of your reduction targets.
You need to simulate a growth projection that will result in an increase in your emissions.
As with the reduction targets, the configuration is accessible via the "pencil" icon.
The modelling of the evolution of your emissions by the target year is defined by two parameters:
The reference year against which this Business as Usual scenario will be calculated: it is generally advised to choose the reference year of your reduction targets, but you may choose a later year to update your growth projections based on a more recent year.
The multiplicative factor that will be applied to the emissions of this reference year, by the target year. For example, if you expect a growth of 20%, then the factor to enter is 1.20.
ℹ️ This factor can be less than 1 in the case of a projected decrease in your activity.
Example: If you expect a 20% decrease in your activity, then you should enter 0.8.
Once filled in, do not forget to click on "Validate your projection"
to validate the scenario and update the table.
This table shows the evolution of your emissions in the "Business as Usual" scenario between the reference year and the target year, applying a constant growth rate to reach the overall factor defined above.
(For example, a growth of 70% between 2020 and 2030 equates to an annual growth of 5.45%).
Once your scenario is validated, you can click on return to go back to the main screen.
3 / Ambitions
This is the third step of your strategy.
After defining your reduction targets and validating your activity projection, you need to establish ambitions.
These ambitions allow for global missions based on the roles.
Example for the Procurement role:
Purchase second-hand manufactured goods.
You will then find in the action plan all the actions that will help achieve these ambitions.
To add your ambitions, you can refer to this article:
4 / Action Plan
The final step of your Strategy, the action plan is the operational side.
This is where you will define and create all the actions that will allow you to have an impact on your emissions.
Each action is associated with an ambition, and you can have multiple actions for a single ambition.
With the tool, you will be able to see, for each action, the projected impact.
Here is the article that explains how to configure your actions:
5 / Graphs
Cascade Visualization Graph
Cascade Visualization Graph
This graph is very interesting as it allows you to confront your activity projection with your overall reduction target and the associated action plan.
In the example above:
2021-2022-2023 = the calculated emissions from historical collection campaigns.
Activity Projection = the sum of the emissions calculated with your growth or decline factor.
Action Plan = the sum of emissions reductions due to your action plan.
Projected Emissions 2030 = the emissions of your reference year (2023) + the activity projection for 2030 (target year) - the Action Plan.
Target = the reduction target you have set for yourself.
Remaining to Reduce = the difference between projected emissions and the target.
Thus, it can be quickly seen here that the action plan is not sufficient to meet the target and that the remaining to reduce is significant.
In this graph, by clicking on "view the details of the actions" you can visualise which actions have the most impact and which have the least.
Temporal Trajectory Graph
Temporal Trajectory Graph
This graph allows you to highlight and overlay, year by year, the different curves (overall targets, projected emissions, activity projection).
And for more detail, you can choose a stacking by Category.
You will thus have the detail of emissions by role by year, confronted with your target and your activity projection.
You can visualise the most emissions-intensive roles and thus see the opportunities available in terms of reduction.
💡 Note
All graphs can be filtered!
You have a "Filter" button in the top right corner of the screen. It allows you to filter by Role, by Entity, or by Tags.
By choosing a filter, the two graphs on the main screen will update.
For example, on the graph "Cascade Visualisation", you will see only the data that has been collected for this entity + the actions attributed to it.