Our company runs a guest house for visiting staff. Which scope do its emissions go in?
If you own or lease it and pay its bills, it sits inside your operational control: its electricity is Scope 2 and its LPG and diesel are Scope 1. If staff stay in hotels you pay for, that is Scope 3 business travel instead.
Inside your boundary
- Electricity bill in your name or paid by you: Scope 2.
- LPG cylinders for the kitchen, diesel for a backup genset: Scope 1.
- Refrigerant top-ups for its air conditioners: Scope 1.
Outside it
Hotel nights booked for staff are Category 6. A flat provided by a landlord who pays the bills may be a leased asset; see who controls the meter.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads quantities, dates and units from your bills and invoices and shows the factor and source used on every line.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.