Emissions Management

Carbon Emissions Analysis is an easy-to-use visualization tool that allows paying commercial OCI customers to track their estimated carbon emissions footprint. Charts and corresponding data tables or CSVs of carbon emissions usage can be generated, based on the selected carbon emissions factor, calculation method, time range, filters, and grouping dimensions.

OCI uses Green House Gas (GHG) protocol guidance to automate calculating carbon emissions for customers' purchased goods using the following calculation methods across most services:

• Spend-based: The amount a customer spends on a particular service. These calculations are based on the customer cost before discounts and the Oracle Clean Cloud OCI Data Sheet.
• Power-based: The amount of power consumed (in kWh) by service workloads, which further satisfies GHG protocol guidelines, and EU and UK regulations on carbon emissions reporting.

For the power-based calculation method only, two types of carbon emissions factors can be tracked in Carbon Emissions Analysis:

• Location-based emissions: Emissions that are based directly on the region's power grid. While typically some level of emissions are emitted, certain location's emissions can be 100% renewable, depending on the location's power grid.
• Market-based emissions: Emissions that include any renewable energy certificates or renewable grid purchases. For example, European regions have market-based zero carbon emission factors.

Carbon emission units in Carbon Emissions Analysis are expressed in terms of MTCO2e (Metric Tons Carbon dioxide equivalent).

You can use Carbon Emissions Analysis for spot checks of carbon emissions trends, and for generating reports. You can visualize emissions in charts, as tabular data, or download the data as a CSV file. For example, you can view carbon emissions by service and product description or SKU, view the carbon footprint by region, or view the location- or market-based carbon footprint by service. For more information, see Viewing Carbon Emissions Reports.

By default, the Location-based Carbon Footprint by Service report is shown when the Carbon emissions analysis page first opens. When viewing this report and others you can filter by specific dates, compartments, regions, services, tags, or tenancies.

On the User Reports page, you can create and view new user reports based on one of the predefined default templates, and select the calculation method (whether power- or spend-based) and carbon emissions factor (location- or market-based). You can then pick how you want the data grouped in terms of a particular grouping dimension, chart type, chart scope, and granularity (monthly or daily).

On the Default Reports page, you can view one of the predefined default reports, where the reports are listed by name and calculation method (power- or spend-based).

See Viewing Carbon Emissions Reports for more information on viewing reports and the related Carbon Emissions Analysis query settings. See Creating User Reports for more information on creating your own reports.