Time to take action! Greenhouse Gases are out of control!

The reduction of GHG emissions starts with measuring and managing those emissions. However not all emissions are born equally. There are 3 tiers of emissions:

Scope 1: direct emissions owned by the business: created directly by the production and distribution activities owned by the company.

Scope 2: indirect emissions used by the business: for example the purchase of services like electricity.

Scope 3: indirect emissions produced by activities in the business’ supply chain by third party companies: for example the production of raw materials or retail distribution.

A complete GHG emission report should contain information from all scopes. Scope 1 accounting is easy since the company owns the emissions. Scope 2 is not owned but is controlled, i.e. although a business is not responsible for the emissions produced while generating electricity it controls its consumption and, therefore, can account it.

The challenge lies in Scope 3! Not only is not owned but also not controlled. An emission report without scope 3 does not give the full picture as there is a part of the puzzle missing. So, what’s to do?

First businesses need to push their partners in the supply chain to measure and report their own emissions. Second those reports should be integrated with scope 1 and scope 2 into a single end-to-end report.

Although not a an easy task the path is clear:

1 - measure all emissions

2 - integrate in a single end-to-end report.

We can help you either collecting GHG emissions data or integrating it all into a single report. Either you already have a strategy and need help in a specific action or you’re still collecting the pieces and just need to exchange ideas,

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