Targets

In SmartTrackers you can set a target on virtually any indicator: from CO₂e direct and indirect, diesel consumption and waste to indicators such as CO₂ direct and indirect per FTE, CO₂ direct and indirect per turnover, sickness absence or the percentage of women in your organisation. For every indicator that has been set up in your account, you can add its own target. This article explains how to do that, and how the numbers you fill in actually work.

Adding a target

1. Choose Targets in the sidebar.
2. Click the green + Add button.
3. Choose the organisation entity the target should apply to.
4. Choose the indicator (for example CO₂e direct and indirect, CO₂e direct and indirect per FTE, energy or sickness absence). You can add a target on any indicator that has been set up in your account. Missing an indicator? See the article Adding an indicator.
5. Indicate whether you want to split the target, by scope, by category, or not at all. See the next section underneath for guidance.
6. Fill in the reduction percentages per year (negative = saving). See the explanation and examples below.
   Save the target.

How do the percentages work?
Each year, you use a negative percentage to indicate how much you want to save compared to a specific year (your reference year). The percentages are independent of each other, each percentage applies on its own to the reference year. A few examples to make this concrete:

• If you want to record, in 2027 compared to 2024, a saving of 10% for scope 1 and 50% for scope 2. Enter -10 and -50. You then want to record, for 2030, a saving of 20% and 75%. Enter -20 and -75.

Target by scope
When you steer on a total indicator (for example CO₂e direct and indirect), it usually makes sense to split the targe,  by activity or by scope. In practice, splitting by activity often works most comfortably. Setting a specific ambition for heating, electricity or lease cars is usually easier than defining one overall target for the entire organisation in a single step. You can also split by scope, in which case you enter a separate reduction percentage for scope 1, scope 2 and scope 3.

Target line calculation
The target line follows the filters you apply to your chart. If your chart shows only scope 1, only the scope 1 part of your target will be drawn as a line,, not the scope 1 + 2 + 3 total. If you filter on the lease cars category, you only see the part of the target that applies to lease cars. As a result, the target line is always relevant: you compare your actual emissions to exactly the part of the target that matches the chart.