Purchased or acquired cooling consumption
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports cooling purchased or acquired and consumed during the reporting period, preserving its physical amount and energy unit separately from Scope 2 emissions.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — field-level units: Structured table — see field-level energy units
- Reporting basis
- annual reporting period
- Aggregation
- Sum only non-overlapping observations with compatible units, periods and organizational boundaries.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Energy consumption
- Controlled domain
- Energy
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Purchased or acquired cooling consumed inside the disclosed organizational and Scope 2 reporting boundary.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Measurement AuthoritySource evidence
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2015 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Measurement
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- page 63, Section 7.2, Annual electricity consumption | Page 10, section 1.5.3 Other disclosure
- Measurement Authority0c919418836533fe3c43
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2015 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- page 63, Section 7.2, Annual electricity consumption
- Measurement Authority52f799bf0465e9ffcad0
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2015 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 10, section 1.5.3 Other disclosure
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — field-level units: Structured table — see field-level energy units
- Reporting basis
- annual reporting period
Unit meaning: Each table field uses its stated unit. Each observation retains its reported energy unit, such as kWh, MWh, GJ or another compatible unit.
Table fields and units
- Facility or operation
- Geography
- cooling amount
- Energy unit
- Period and boundary notes
Published dimensions
- energy carrier: cooling
- energy type: cooling
- reporting period
- reported energy unit
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport each compatible physical amount with its energy unit; disclose any conversion before aggregation.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 26 August 2026
GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2015 publication
- Locator
- page 63, Section 7.2, Annual electricity consumption | Page 10, section 1.5.3 Other disclosure
Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Purchased or acquired cooling consumption”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, 2015 publication.
- Disclose the energy unit used.
- Report total cooling consumption separately from scope totals.
- Describe the relevant cooling energy use included in the consumption total.
- Report total cooling consumption separately from electricity consumption.
- State the energy unit used for the reported cooling quantity.
Record-specific limitations
- The cooling-consumption quantity is reported separately from scope emissions totals and is not itself a scope emissions total.
- The guidance permits common energy units; comparability depends on clearly stating the unit used.
- This quantity measures cooling consumption and does not by itself indicate the emissions intensity or supply mix associated with that consumption.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.