How is this different to the previous version of the AdGreen carbon calculator?

For those familiar with the previous iteration of the carbon calculator, generally speaking, the process of gathering and inputting informahtion has been sped up wherever possible, with units required for carbon calculation translated into ‘production language’: things users will know intuitively or be able to find out easily. Various benchmarks have been created, and assumptions made, to make this possible. 

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The AdGreen carbon calculator also enables uses to create two kinds of projects: Early Insights and Final Footprints.

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In addition, activity areas have been updated and renamed to reflect production activities, and grouped into pre-production, shoot and post-production – with some activities appearing in multiple production stages where Final Footprints are concerned.

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You might notice some granularity has been removed due to wanting to speed up data entry (waste disposal options and meals for catering). In the case of waste, we know from the previous tool data that waste usually accounts for less than 1% of a project footprint, so we’ve removed some of the complexity around this as different options often make very little difference, relative to the overall project footprint. We’ve also removed some granularity due to lack of available factors, such as in the case of accommodation types. Despite researching extensively, the factors used by albert could not be located.

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Lastly, new items have been added (volume LED (virtual studios), hard drives, cloud storage and LTO tapes).

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Advice on moving unfinished projects into the new carbon calculator can be found here.