Carbon Footprint

In the in-console dashboard and BigQuery export, we provide both scope 2 market-based and scope 2 location-based emissions data, in addition to scope 1 and scope 3 emissions.

Compared to only reporting market-based data for electricity-related (scope 2) emissions, the dual-reporting offers more transparency and comprehensive insights for your varying use cases.

The dashboard data summary gives you a high-level overview of both location-based and market-based carbon emissions from all 3 scopes associated with the usage of covered Google Cloud services for your account. 

You can export your Carbon Footprint data to BigQuery in order to perform data analysis, create custom dashboards and reports, or include the data in your organization's emissions accounting tools. 

You can dive deeper and analyze your carbon emissions according to Google Cloud service, project, region, and month for the selected billing account over all available months.

Carbon Footprint data is integrated with unattended project recommender, which provides you with estimates of the location-based emission reductions you could achieve by removing idle projects. 

We've published a review statement from third-party experts in sustainability consulting which concludes that Carbon Footprint's methodology is a reasonable and appropriate way to calculate and allocate emissions from Google Cloud products, per the GHG Protocol.