Carbon Insight at a Glance
⚠️ Disclaimer
Tulsi’s carbon-footprint feature provides an approximate estimate of greenhouse-gas emissions based on the spending amounts and categories entered by the user. Its purpose is to increase awareness of how daily spending patterns relate to environmental impact, not to produce exact or auditable carbon data.
✅ What It Can Estimate
- Approximate consumption-based emissions (Scope 3) inferred from user-entered expenses or scanned PDF statements.
- Category-level trends — e.g., how your food, transport, or shopping habits affect your total footprint over time.
- Relative comparisons across months or categories (for behavioral insights).
⚠️ What It Cannot Measure
- Exact product- or merchant-specific emissions, because Tulsi does not access bank APIs or official merchant data such as MCCs.
- Direct energy use or household emissions (Scope 1 and 2) — e.g., your actual fuel or electricity consumption.
- Lifestyle details (diet, travel frequency, housing type) unless manually reflected in your entries.
- Business-related, investment, or supply-chain emissions.
- Precise results from scanned PDFs — text extraction and category recognition may contain parsing errors.
🎯 Accuracy and Limitations
- Estimates use average emission factors per spending category (kg CO₂e per SGD) from public life-cycle databases (EXIOBASE, EEA, World Bank) and regional adjustments for Singapore/ASEAN where available.
- Typical accuracy range: ±40–80 %, depending on the completeness and correctness of user input.
- Manual data entry, missing merchants, or mis-categorized expenses can significantly affect results.
- Values should be viewed as directional indicators, not precise measurements or regulatory data.
⚖️ Intended Use
This feature is provided for personal awareness and education only. It is not designed or certified for carbon auditing, environmental reporting, tax filing, or compliance purposes. Actual emissions will differ from these estimates, which should not be relied upon for financial, legal, or environmental claims.