Emission Measurement Gains Importance in Supply Chains

30 Sep 2024

Measuring and reporting emissions throughout the supply chain plays an important role in sustainability.

In addition to the Scope 1 and Scope 2 reporting, which includes direct emissions and indirect emissions from energy purchases, the value chain Monitoring of Scope 3 emissions arising from its activities is becoming more important day by day.

The “Emission Measurement in Supply Chains” report prepared by the OECD and the World Economic Forum (WEF) discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by businesses in emission measurements in supply chains.

While reporting of Scope 3 emissions is generally voluntary in order to meet investor and civil society expectations, initiatives to make it mandatory are continuing. However, creating a global standard has become a challenging process due to the diversity of data and different calculation methods among widely used reporting standards.

It is stated that geographical differences complicate emission estimates, especially in the agriculture and food sector, and downstream emissions reporting in the mining sector is challenging due to the lack of verified data and standard diversity.

The fact that a single standard cannot be applied to every sector due to sectoral differences creates an environment where industry initiatives test different measurement approaches. However, this has the potential to increase costs on supply chains.

Functional and interoperable systems are needed to support carbon reduction in the global economy. This situation needs to be taken into consideration, especially by small and medium-sized enterprises and developing countries. It is pointed out that otherwise, imposing measurement and reporting obligations may reduce competitiveness and create commercial barriers.

Private and public cooperation plays an important role

Collaboration between the private sector and the public plays a critical role in reducing emissions. In this regard, simple strategies need to be implemented, taking into account the different structuring of each sector.

Verification of the emission amount reported in the reporting by third parties increases reliability. The use of digital tools in the process also allows the flow to be monitored by automating the necessary calculations and data transmission.

Source: ISO Green Blog

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