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Allocations: cost centers, projects, business units, and scopes

Make your climate spend easier to reconcile by structuring purchases the same way you run the organisation.

February 18, 2026 • 4 min read

As your organisation scales, it becomes harder to connect climate activity to budgets and responsibility. Allocation settings let you structure purchases using familiar dimensions like cost centers, projects, business units, and scopes—when enabled for your organisation.

What allocations help you do

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    Stay consistent: Use the same structure in climate tracking as you do in finance and operations.
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    Make reviews easier: Approvers and auditors can follow who allocated what and when.
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    Search and trace: Audit trail search supports filters like project and business unit when those fields are in use.

Where to configure allocation settings

Allocation settings live under Organisation in the Minpact dashboard. If your organisation has allocation dimensions enabled, you will also see pages for cost centers, projects, and business units.

Scopes (1, 2 & 3) in the offset ledger

If you track emissions by Greenhouse Gas Protocol scopes, you can enable scope tagging for certificates. In Organisation settings, turn on “Use scopes 1, 2 & 3”. Once enabled, a Scope filter and Scope allocation field become available in the offset ledger.

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    Flexible tagging: Set a scope category when you need it, or leave it blank (“No scope”).
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    Reporting-friendly: Use the Scope filter to focus the ledger view and exports on the scope categories you want to report.

How to change allocations in the offset ledger

Allocations can be updated directly on each certificate in the offset ledger. Depending on your role and access, some fields may be disabled or show a limited set of options.

  1. Open the offset ledger in the Minpact dashboard.
  2. Find the certificate you want to update.
  3. Click “Edit” on the right, or open the Allocations section in the row and click the allocation chip (for example “Add cost center”, “Add project”, “Add business unit”, or “Add scope”).
  4. In the edit dialog, choose the cost center, project, business unit, and scope category (when enabled), then save your changes.

Allocation changes are recorded in the audit trail so you can review what changed over time.

You may be asked to sign in to access these pages.

Next step: review the audit trail

Once allocations are in use, the audit trail helps you review changes over time across certificates, approvals, and allocations.

Open audit trail