Scope 3 & supply chain carbon
Solving the difficult part of corporate carbon accounting
Scope 3 usually accounts for most of a corporate footprint and almost all of the difficulty. The information sits in procurement systems, expenditure records and supplier correspondence rather than in a meter reading.
Scope 3 & supply chain carbon
Solving the difficult part of corporate carbon accounting
Scope 3 usually accounts for most of a corporate footprint and almost all of the difficulty. The information sits in procurement systems, expenditure records and supplier correspondence rather than in a meter reading.
Scope 3 rarely involves perfect data. The objective is to build a transparent methodology that is appropriate to the information available and can improve over time.
Services include
- Scope 3 screening
- Category assessments
- Procurement-data analysis
- Spend-based calculations
- Activity-based calculations
- Hybrid methodologies
- Supplier-specific data
- Supplier emissions
- Supplier classification
- NAICS / SIC / spend classification where appropriate
- Emissions-factor mapping
- Data-quality scoring
- Estimation methodologies
- Category boundaries
- Supplier engagement
- Primary-data improvement
- Methodology documentation
- Transition away from purely spend-based approaches
Related services
Most sustainability challenges span more than one discipline. These services are often relevant alongside scope 3 & supply chain carbon.
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