Scope 3 Emissions Assessment
The value-chain emissions — usually the majority — that sit upstream and downstream of a company.
Scope 3 Emissions Assessment, without the jargon
Scope 3 covers indirect value-chain emissions across the 15 categories of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard — from purchased goods and services, capital goods and transport upstream, to product use and end-of-life downstream. We screen all categories for relevance, then quantify material ones using spend-based, average-data or supplier-specific methods.
Why companies act on this
- Scope 3 is typically the largest share of a company’s total footprint
- SBTi and CDP both expect material Scope 3 categories to be measured and targeted
- It exposes supplier, logistics and product-use hotspots that on-site accounting misses
A clear, auditable process
- 01Category screening
Assess all 15 categories for relevance and materiality to the business.
- 02Method & data
Apply spend-based, average-data or supplier-specific methods to material categories.
- 03Value-chain map
Quantify upstream and downstream emissions and pinpoint hotspots.
Where value-chain emissions hide
The GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard defines 15 categories across upstream and downstream — these are among the ones that most often dominate a company’s total.
What you walk away with
A screened 15-category Scope 3 inventory
Quantified material-category emissions
A supplier & product-use hotspot map
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