Example of a company carbon footprint
This is what a
company carbon footprint
looks like.
The file you drop in, the results you get, the report you send to your client, and what is left for you to do afterwards. Everything is shown on a full financial year, screen by screen.
These screens concern Dupont & Fils SAS, a fictional company: it is Oakbon’s demonstration data set, and no figure on this page comes from a client.
Carbon footprint
Executive summary
Dupont & Fils SAS
NAF code 4669B, 40 employees, financial year 2025
Methodology aligned with the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard and the ESRS E1 disclosure requirements
Step 1
You drop in the file your accountant already produces.
A carbon footprint usually starts with a workbook to fill in category by category, with figures nobody has to hand. Here, you drop in your accounting file and the data entry disappears.
Drag and drop your accounting file
or browse your computer
Accepted formats: FEC (.txt), .csv, .xlsx
Auto-detected formats
Nothing to re-enter
The file arrives exactly as your accounting software exports it. No column to rename, no template to follow.
A file you already have
The FEC is standardised by the French tax authority and can be produced by any company keeping computerised accounts. Your accountant hands it over on a single request.
It never leaves your browser
The file is read on your own machine. Your entries, your amounts and your suppliers are never sent to us.
Step 2
You see where you stand, and what weighs.
A total in tonnes does not tell you what to do. The results screen ranks your categories by weight, separates what you burn from what you buy, and gives you the order in which to tackle them.
Total Scope 3 emissions
309,4tCO2e
Upstream Scope 3 (Cat 1-8): 78.2 tCO2e
Estimated downstream Scope 3 (Cat 9-15): 231.2 tCO2e
Methodology aligned with GHG Protocol Scope 3 and ESRS E1
Scope 3 intensity: 103.1 tCO2e / M€ revenueScope 1 – Direct combustion
11,70tCO2e
Scope 2 – Indirect energy
4,84tCO2e
Dual reporting (GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance): with no certified green contract in place, the market-based value is taken as equal to the location-based value, for want of a published ADEME residual mix factor for France.
Breakdown by GHG Protocol category, upstream Scope 3 (Cat 1-8)
| Category | GHG ref. | tCO2e | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cat 1 – Purchased goods and services | Cat. 1 | 20,40 | 6,6% |
| Cat 2 – Capital goods | Cat. 2 | 3,90 | 1,3% |
| Cat 3 – Fuel and energy related activities | Cat. 3 | 2,80 | 0,9% |
| Cat 4 – Upstream transportation | Cat. 4 | 15,90 | 5,1% |
| Cat 5 – Waste generated | Cat. 5 | 1,20 | 0,4% |
| Cat 6 – Business travel | Cat. 6 | 5,80 | 1,9% |
| Cat 7 – Employee commuting | Cat. 7 | 26,50 | 8,6% |
| Cat 8 – Upstream leased assets | Cat. 8 | 1,70 | 0,5% |
The precision score for this financial year is about 67 % on the upstream scope, and it is written into the report. Categories 9 to 15, which carry the use and end of life of the products sold, are estimated and presented separately: they never mix with the categories calculated from your entries.
The order of battle, straight away
One category carries three quarters of the total for this financial year. You know where to start before you have read the first page of the report.
All three scopes, in every plan
What you burn, the energy you buy with its dual reporting, and your value chain. No scope is reserved for a higher plan.
An intensity comparable from one year to the next
Tonnes per million euros of revenue follow your trajectory even when your activity changes in volume.
Step 3
The document you send.
Your client expects an attachment they can feed into their own reporting. You save it as a PDF from your workspace, and you send it the same day.
Carbon footprint
Executive summary
Dupont & Fils SAS
NAF code 4669B, 40 employees, financial year 2025
Methodology aligned with the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard (Scope 1 and 2) and Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3), and the ESRS E1 disclosure requirements
Generated on 09/09/2026, app.oakbon.fr
3. Breakdown by category and top contributors
| Category | tCO2e | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Cat 1 – Purchased goods and services | 20,40 | 6,6% |
| Cat 2 – Capital goods | 3,90 | 1,3% |
| Cat 3 – Fuel and energy related activities | 2,80 | 0,9% |
| Cat 4 – Upstream transportation | 15,90 | 5,1% |
| Cat 5 – Waste generated | 1,20 | 0,4% |
| Cat 6 – Business travel | 5,80 | 1,9% |
| Cat 7 – Employee commuting | 26,50 | 8,6% |
| Cat 8 – Upstream leased assets | 1,70 | 0,5% |
| Cat 9 – Downstream transportation | 3,20 | 1,0% |
| Cat 11 – Use of sold products | 227,60 | 73,6% |
| Cat 12 – End-of-life of sold products | 0,44 | 0,1% |
| Total Scope 3 (estimated Cat 9-15 included) | 309,44 | 100% |
| Category | tCO2e | Share of Scope 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Cat 11 – Use of sold products | 227,60 | 73,6 % |
| Cat 7 – Employee commuting | 26,50 | 8,6 % |
| Cat 1 – Purchased goods and services | 20,40 | 6,6 % |
| Cat 4 – Upstream transportation | 15,90 | 5,1 % |
| Total Scope 3, estimated categories 9 to 15 included | 309,44 | 100 % |
Every line of the report carries the GHG Protocol category name, its tonnage and its weight. Your reader finds their own reporting vocabulary without having to translate.
What the full report contains
- Cover
- Supplier sheet the executive summary, the page your client reads
- Breakdown by category, Scope 1, Scope 2, indicators and recommendations
- Methodological note the scope retained, the categories left out and why
- Transition plan your quantified targets and your trajectory
- Technical appendices the emission factors used and their version
- Statement the company, the SIREN, the financial year, the date of generation
The report is generated from your workspace and saved as a PDF on your machine. Two CSV exports come with it, so your reader can take the figures into their own tool.
Step 4
What is left once the report has gone.
A carbon footprint that stops at the document has to be redone from scratch the following year. Your workspace keeps the financial year, the actions under way and your obligations, and serves as the starting point for the next footprint.
An action plan already filled in
The heaviest categories bring their reduction options as soon as the calculation ends. You tick what you commit to, and progress carries over from one financial year to the next.
My reduction action plan
- Offer the sustainable mobility allowance (cycling, car sharing, public transport) Cat 7 – Employee commuting Done
- Favour rail or inland waterway freight Cat 4 – Upstream transportation Done
- Make home working easier to cut commuting Cat 7 – Employee commuting In progress
- Favour local and certified low-carbon suppliers Cat 1 – Purchased goods and services In progress
- Extend equipment lifetime (repair, refurbishment) Cat 1 – Purchased goods and services To do
- Bring the bulkiest supplies closer to home Cat 4 – Upstream transportation To do
The statuses shown here are those of an example: they depend on what you tick.
Your obligations, including when the answer is “no”
Knowing that a rule does not apply to you is worth as much as discovering that it does. Your headcount, your revenue and your NAF code give the verdict for each text, with its reference.
Regulatory obligations
Regulatory BEGES
Not concernedNot mandatory below 500 employees, but your Oakbon footprint remains usable and valuable.
40 employees < threshold of 500. · Art. L229-25 of the French environment code
CSRD
Not concernedOutside the direct scope of CSRD, but the clients you supply who are in scope may ask you for your data: get ahead with the VSME standard.
“Large company” thresholds not met (0/3 criteria). · Directive (EU) 2022/2464, phase-in adjusted by directive 2025/1794
CBAM
Not concernedApplies only to importers of cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen or electricity.
NAF sector outside the scope of covered goods. · Regulation (EU) 2023/956, definitive regime since 01/01/2026
VSME (voluntary)
VoluntaryVoluntary standard recommended to answer the requests of your clients and financiers: Oakbon generates the export (module B3) from your footprint.
Your latest footprint (309.4 tCO2e) feeds the VSME export directly. · EFRAG voluntary standard for SMEs (2024)
On this profile, the four verdicts are those produced by the applicability engine for 40 employees, 3 M€ of revenue and NAF code 4669B. A different profile gets different verdicts.
If your accountant is the one producing it
The firm that already holds your entries opens one file per client and works inside it, without mixing scopes. Each file has its own footprint, its own action plan and its own report.
Firm workspace
Run your clients’ carbon footprints from a single account
Company names and SIREN numbers are anonymised on this page: a firm portal contains its clients’ data, and we display no client company name. The only one shown is “Dupont & Fils SAS”, the fictional company of the demonstration data set.
Frequently asked questions
What this report says, and what it does not.
Does this report count as certification?
No. Oakbon produces a footprint aligned with the GHG Protocol and with the ESRS E1 disclosure requirements. This report is not an ISO 14064-3 certification and does not replace verification by an independent third party. It does answer what a client, a financier or a public buyer asks a supplier for today.
Categories 9 to 15 are estimated: how much is the figure worth?
These categories cover the downstream part of your value chain, in particular the use and end of life of what you sell. No accounting entry carries them, so they are estimated, and the report says so everywhere they appear: they are presented separately from the upstream scope, with their methodological caveats. On the financial year shown here, they represent most of the total, which is common for a wholesale business.
The upstream scope, by contrast, is calculated from your entries and completed by the questionnaire. That is the one carrying the precision score, about 67 % for this financial year.
How long does it take to obtain this report?
Two hours, counting the time to get the file from your accountant and to answer the questions the accounts alone cannot settle, such as your employees’ commuting or your refrigerant gases. The calculation and the report themselves are immediate.
What do you see of my accounts?
The file is read inside your browser: neither your entries, nor your amounts, nor your suppliers are sent to us. So there is nothing to purge on our side. Your footprint, for its part, stays available in your workspace. Hosting is provided by OVH, in France.
Can I send this document to my client as it is?
Yes, that is what it is made for. It carries your company name, your SIREN, your financial year, the version of the factor base used and the date of generation. Two CSV exports come with it, so your reader can take the figures into their own reporting tool.
Are the figures on this page real?
They come from Oakbon’s demonstration data set, built on a fictional company named Dupont & Fils SAS. The calculation, however, is the product’s own: same categories, same factors, same report. We display no client data, and we invent no figure.
How do I get mine?
By creating an account: the Essentiel plan starts at 69 € excl. VAT per month, with an unlimited number of footprints and no commitment. If you produce footprints for third parties, the Cabinet plan opens the multi-file portal. The detail is on the pricing page.
Your financial year, your report
The same document, with your figures.
Drop in your accounting file, answer the questions the accounts do not settle, and leave with the report you will send.
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