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Category 7: Employee Commuting
Emissions from the transportation of employees between their homes and their worksites.
GHG Protocol Reference
The following content is extracted from the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard.
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Category 7
Selko Emissions
Category 7 covers emissions from employees commuting between home and work. This is often estimated through employee surveys or regional commuting patterns.
Emission Factor Methods
Tier 1
Distance-based
Activity data based on actual distances and transport modes
Tier 2
Country-specific proxy
Based on national commuting averages and employee count
Methods range from primary data (left) to modeled estimates (right)