Carbon — how Togra works out a footprint
Togra works a production's footprint out from the records it already keeps, so nothing is typed in twice. Open Carbon under Admin, then a project.
Where the lines come from
| Record | What is counted | Factor |
|---|---|---|
| Transport moves | km on each move, classed as van, HGV, taxi or car from the vehicle description | DESNZ vehicle factors |
| Accommodation | nights for each person assigned to a booked room, checkout day excluded | DESNZ hotel stay by country (no published figure for Ireland) |
| Catering | meals served, or ordered where no count was kept | ADEME average meal |
| Flights | distance between the two airports for each traveller, doubled for a return | DESNZ short-haul, long-haul or international, with radiative forcing |
| Fuel log | litres put into generators, vehicles and the unit base | SEAI for Ireland, DESNZ elsewhere |
| Studios and facilities | the project's share of each booked studio's electricity and hardware | the studio's grid factor; manufacturers' figures for hardware |
| Crew commute | crew on each day's call sheet × there and back × a distance you give | DESNZ car factors; off unless you turn it on |
| Added by hand | anything kept nowhere else, a ferry or a train | the activity you pick |
| Actual costs | purchases not covered by the records above | Defra kgCO₂e per £ by industry |
Each line keeps the factor it was worked out with. A newer factor applies when you press Recalculate.
Stand-ins and gaps
Where a territory has no published factor, Togra uses the nearest one that does and marks the line stand-in. Grid electricity and hotel stays are never borrowed from another country; a line without a factor is listed and left out of the total. SEAI publishes carbon dioxide only, and its lines say so.
Never counted twice
When a record is costed, the matching purchases leave the spend estimate: transport and fuel, hotels, catering, flights. Logged vehicle fuel replaces the kilometre estimate from transport moves. Wages, fees and financing are never part of a spend-based footprint.
Studios shared out
The Company tab shows your premises and hardware for the year. Each day a project is booked into a studio (reserved or confirmed on its Facilities page) it carries that day's share, split with any other project in that day. Days nobody was booked stay with the company.
Locked reports and the CAP
Work out and lock freezes the footprint and every line behind it: an interim footprint, a wrap footprint, or the post-production reconciliation. Each has a Word report and a CSV. Use in tracker makes it the reported footprint on the Sustainability — albert, AdGreen, Green Film tracker and the evidence for the matching Carbon Action Plan (CAP) item. The albert sign-off pack can carry the latest one as an appendix.
The footprint is the production's own estimate for planning, funders and CAP evidence. Certification stays with the certifying body.
Related
Sources
- · UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2025 and methodology paper (DESNZ)
- · UK and England's carbon footprint: spend-based emissions multipliers 2023 (Defra)
- · SEAI conversion and emission factors (2025 workbook)
- · ADEME Base Carbone (meal factors)
- · OurAirports (airport locations)