Our São Bernardo truck parts plant buys renewable certificates. How do we show Scope 2?

Report two Scope 2 figures: location-based at the Brazilian grid factor, and market-based using the certificates you bought for the same period and volume. Keep the certificate retirement records. Buyers usually ask for both.

Location-based

Units from bills times the official grid factor for the year.

Market-based

• Certificates matched to the units and the period.
• Retirement in your name, on the registry.
• Any units not covered at a residual factor where one is published.

Showing it

Put both figures side by side and say which one any target is set against.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads bills, fuel invoices and production records into dated, fingerprinted records, so the figure you send a buyer can be traced to its documents.

• Brazil grid factor
• Brazil carbon market and CBAM
• Buyer asks proof of renewables

Sources: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.