View Carbon Footprint data

The Carbon Footprint dashboard displays estimated greenhouse gasemissions associated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud services for theselected billing account.

Before you begin

Note: You donot need access to billing spending data in order to accessCarbon Footprint data.

To access the Carbon Footprint dashboard, you need the followingIAM permissions:

  • billing.accounts.getCarbonInformation
  • billing.accounts.list
  • billing.accounts.get

These IAM permissions enable you to do all of the following:

  • List and view the names of billing accounts.
  • Access Carbon Footprint data associated with these billing accounts.

To obtain these IAM permissions, a billing account administrator must grant you one or more IAM roles listed below for the billing account that contain such permissions:

  • roles/billing.carbonViewer
  • roles/billing.admin
  • roles/billing.viewer

Read more aboutCloud Carbon IAM permission and roles andCloud Billing access control.

Accessing the Carbon Footprint dashboard

The Carbon Footprint dashboard is located in theTools sectionwithin Google Cloud console.

Go to Carbon Footprint

Viewing your carbon footprint

Carbon Footprint data is computed automatically for your billingaccount, there is no API to enable or setup required.It can take up to 21 days for data of the previous month to become available.If you have the properIAM permission and data isavailable, data is displayed on the dashboard.

Carbon footprint data is given in metric tons of CO2 equivalent(tCO2e) in theUI dashboard and in kilograms of CO2 equivalent(kgCO2e) in the data export.

Market-based emissions and Location-based emissions

The dashboard is divided into two tabs:Market-based emissions andLocation-based emissions. These two tabs display emissions data estimated usingdifferent Scope 2 carbon accounting definitions according to the Greenhouse GasProtocol (GHGP). Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions are identical across the two tabs.In summary:

Summary

Each tab displays an overview of the estimated greenhouse gas emissionsassociated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud servicesfor the selected billing account.

  • Annual carbon footprint: The total estimated greenhouse gas emissionsassociated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud servicesfor the selected billing account over the past 12 complete months.
  • Carbon footprint for the past month: The total estimated greenhouse gasemissions associated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud servicesfor the selected billing account for the most recent completed month, comparedto the previous month.

Recommendations

Carbon Footprint has integrated with Google Cloud Active AssistUnattended Project Recommender, which analyzes usage activity across allprojects, provides you with the recommendations to reclaim or shut down unattendedprojects, and helps you reduce both cost and carbon emissions. If your billingaccount has associated projects that are deemed "unattended", you will see the"Recommendations to reduce emissions" card next to your annual and monthlysummary cards.

Charts

To dig deeper into the specifics of your carbon emissions, the dashboard includesfour charts:

  • Monthly carbon emissions (in both market-based emissions tab and location-based emissions tab):Displays the total estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the usageofcovered Google Cloud services forthe selected billing account over all available months, broken down by month.
  • Carbon emissions by region (in both market-based emissions tab and location-based emissions tab):Displays the estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud services for theselected billing account for the past complete month broken down by Google Cloudregion.
  • Carbon emissions by project (only in the location-based emissions tab):Displays the estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud services for theselected billing account for the past complete month broken down by Google Cloud project.
  • Carbon emissions by product (only in the location-based emissions tab):Displays the estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the usage ofcovered Google Cloud services for theselected billing account for the past complete month broken down by Google Cloudservice.

What's next?

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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.