What Sets Scope 3 Insights Apart in Emissions Tracking
Tracking and reducing Scope 3 emissions is one of the most significant opportunities for meaningful climate action. While many companies are making 2030 pledges, enhancing the depth and transparency of their Scope 3 strategies is becoming essential for delivering on those commitments with confidence and credibility.
While challenges like limited supplier data and low visibility across value chains remain, access to the correct data makes the path to action more precise and achievable. A well-conducted corporate carbon footprint provides a suitable basis for further carbon and climate management.
What Makes Scope 3 So Challenging?
1. When Supplier Data Is the Missing Foundation
Tracking upstream and downstream Scope 3 emissions comes with significant challenges. The main challenge for Category 1 emissions (purchased goods and services), Category 5 emissions (waste generated in operations) and Category 12 emissions (end-of-life treatment) is the lack of reliable, high-quality supplier data. Many companies rely on industry averages or incomplete datasets simply because consistent primary data isn’t available. This makes it challenging to track emissions accurately and limits the ability to identify and act on meaningful reduction opportunities.
2. The End of Life Disconnect
Reducing emissions in Category 12 (end-of-life treatment of sold products) and Category 5 emissions (waste generated in operations) depend heavily on what happens to a product or material after it’s used. Companies can lower these emissions by:
- Increasing the proportion of materials that are recycled
- Use materials that emit less GHG when processed at End-of-Life
- Using renewable energy in material transport and treatment processes
3. Limited Circularity and Supply Chain Visibility
Companies can struggle to implement effective circular strategies without clarity on where products go and how materials are treated at the end of life. Understanding whether materials are recycled and what they are recycled into to ensure quality of rerecovered materials and identify opportunities for closed loops.
Where Scope 3 Insights Make a Difference
Scope 3 Insights offers automated emissions calculations and actionable data based on real-world end-of-life treatment of products. It enables end-to-end tracking of emissions and material flows from transportation and waste treatment to material recovery across multiple material streams, ensuring no emission source is overlooked.
Designed to help organizations overcome data gaps and reporting challenges, Scope 3 Insights delivers more accurate, transparent, and decision-ready information. By leveraging primary data from our supplier network, the platform calculates emissions across the entire downstream value chain, supporting credible and comprehensive Scope 3 reporting.
Accurate Data, Not Estimates
Unlike tools that rely on static industry averages or estimates, Scope 3 Insights uses real-time, transaction-level data*. This includes detailed logistics and supply chain movements, where available, offering a much clearer view of actual emissions.
*This level of precision depends on access to reverse supply chain or logistics data, but when we have it, the insights are unmatched.
Helping Customers Act and Measure Results
Scope 3 Insights goes beyond reporting. It enables businesses to identify emissions hotspots, act with priority, and measure the impact of those actions almost immediately. Scope 3 Insights uses real-time user-friendly dashboards for businesses to track emissions over time and analyzes the carbon impact of various waste treatment and carbon reduction scenarios to support decision-making and demonstrate both the modeled and actual effects of implemented actions. Whether reducing packaging, changing materials, or optimizing logistics routes, users can see what’s working and where there’s room to improve.
Supporting Circular Supply Chains
To improve visibility on end-of-life processes, Scope 3 Insights highlights opportunities for circularity. This includes identifying where materials are already being recovered and where new closed- or open-loop systems can be implemented to drive further emissions reductions.
What Sets Scope 3 Insights Apart
The unique value of Scope 3 Insights lies in the quality of the data we use. A Comprehensive Data Strategy allows integrating multiple raw data sources into one platform to provide complete insights into CO2 emissions
- We work with supplier-specific data rather than relying on broad estimations
- Our insights are built on actual logistics and material-level movements.
- This allows customers to see the direct effects of the changes they make.
With Scope 3 Insights, companies clearly understand what’s happening at the end of product lifecycles. We don’t offer approximations. We help customers understand and measure reality.
In Summary
Scope 3 emissions remain one of the toughest areas for companies to tackle. But with the correct data and tools, there’s a real opportunity to reduce emissions, increase efficiency, and build a more resilient, forward-looking business.
Scope 3 Insights helps turn complexity into clarity and action into impact.
