Scope 3 emissions calculation guidance

An effective corporate climate change strategy requires a detailed understanding of a company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Until recently, most companies have focused on measuring emissions from their own operations and electricity consumption, using the GHG Protocol’s scope 1 and scope 2 framework.

The Scope 3 Standard is the only internationally accepted method for companies to account for the value chain emissions a company is responsible for outside of its own walls – from the goods it purchases to the disposal of the products it sells.