Re-baselining: When and How to Reset your Base Year

​HowGood is pleased to offer a series of closed-door Technical Sessions at Climate Week NYC. Each session will be led by HowGood's Research Team, covering a range of topics in carbon accounting and product carbon footprinting. These sessions are built for the technical questions that don't get resolved in a webinar Q&A: bring what your team has been wrestling with and work through it directly with Subject Matter Experts. Sessions will be kept small, encouraging open, pre-competitive learning among peers.

​Better Scope 3 data and evolving methodology eventually raise a question most sustainability teams have to answer: does the baseline need to be reset? This session explores the situations that typically trigger a re-baseline: integrating supplier-specific emission factors, accounting for land use change, expanding into new categories like packaging, or navigating a merger or divestiture. Bring questions about how to handle gaps in your original baseline, what do when shifting EF databases, and the differences between reductions and re-baselining.