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Link facilities and vehicles to a FLAG land

Convert an existing facility or vehicle into a FLAG land asset and see its emissions shift scope automatically — Scope 1/2 stay put on your own land, but move to Scope 3 on a supplier's land, weighted by how much you bought.

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Besides Crops, each land inside Land management has a Facilities card and a Vehicles card. This guide covers linking an existing facility to a land, and what happens to its emissions depending on who owns that land.

Open a land — for example, “Finca Norte” — and go to its Facilities card. From here you can create a new facility, or import one you’ve already set up elsewhere in Dcycle. Pick an existing facility from the list and convert it into a FLAG facility.

Confirm before linking

Linking a facility to a land asks for confirmation first, because it changes how its emissions are categorized: they stop being plain GHG Protocol Standard emissions and become Land management emissions instead.

The same applies to vehicles, from the Vehicles card.

Own land vs. supplier land, in practice

What happens next depends on who owns the land:

  • Your own land (for example, a facility in “Finca Norte”): combustion and electricity emissions stay exactly where they were — Scope 1 for fuel, Scope 2 for electricity. Nothing changes, because it’s still your facility.
  • A supplier’s land (for example, a facility in “Finca Almería”): the same consumption — fuel-oil, gas-oil, electricity — is still calculated, but no longer counts as Scope 1 or 2. It moves to Scope 3, Purchased goods & services, because the facility belongs to a supplier, not to you.

Known limitation

Visualizations can't yet total these Scope 3 amounts inline the same way they total Scope 1/2 — instead, Dcycle shows an on-screen note confirming that a facility's combustion emissions have moved to Scope 3 because it sits on a supplier's land.

Check it in a visualization

Add Facility as the first row grouping in a visualization so you can filter by facility, then drill into each one:

  • Own facilities (e.g. Burgos, Ávila): recharges, electricity, and combustion emissions stay in Scope 1 and Scope 2 — no change from a non-FLAG project.
  • A supplier’s facility (e.g. Almería): drilling in shows only Scope 3 emissions, under Purchased goods & services — combustion and electricity from that facility now count there.

The same purchased-ratio weighting used for crops applies here too: a supplier’s facility won’t show 100% of its emissions, only the share proportional to how much of that supplier’s total production you bought.

Next steps

This closes the FLAG series: Set up a FLAG project and create your first land covered turning FLAG on and creating lands, and Add crops and calculate their input emissions in FLAG covered crops.

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