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Embark on this path to gain the knowledge you need to start understanding and offsetting your business’s greenhouse gas emissions. Use this pathway to fast-track your knowledge of key terms, concepts, and differences between scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions.
Experience: Beginner
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Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from company-owned and controlled resources. In other words, emissions released into the atmosphere as a direct result of a set of activities at a firm level.
Scope 2 emissions are indirect GHG emissions associated with the purchase of electricity, steam, heat, or cooling. Although the CO2e emissions result from an organisation’s activities, they occur at sources it doesn’t own or control.
Scope 3 Emissions are from sources that the company does not own or control, covering areas associated with business travel, procurement, waste and water. They are those not included in scope 1 or scope 2 and extend the reach to account for GHG emissions through the entire value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions.
To help delineate direct and indirect emission sources, improve transparency, and provide utility for different types of organizations and different types of climate policies and business goals, three “scopes” (scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3) are defined for GHG accounting and reporting purposes.
Organizations, consumers and investors are increasingly scrutinizing sustainability programs and looking for companies to rise to the challenge of reducing their impact on the environment. To become more sustainable, companies should start by understanding their current situation and start monitoring carbon emissions. To start, companies must classify their carbon footprint in three scopes.
GHG Protocol establishes comprehensive global standardized frameworks to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains and mitigation actions.
It’s quiz time to see what you learned about scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions.
Putting together the many ways to measure scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions can be confusing. Whether you’re having trouble understanding the difference between each option or or how to make this endeavor work for your organization, the learning path will break it down.
Experience: Intermediate
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To combat climate change, organizations are looking to efficiently measure and track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As companies continue to align with the global sustainable development agenda, it has become essential to ensure that carbon and GHG reduction strategies are in place. Understanding and reporting on emissions now will empower your business and provide a proactive approach to aligning with increasingly mandatory climate regulations.
As more companies focus on reducing their carbon footprint, there’s one element that is key but often overlooked — reducing emissions from their supply chains. Anastasia O’Rourke ’09 PhD who is managing director of the Yale School of the Environment’s Carbon Containment Lab, focuses on advancing sustainable and green purchasing, and helping organizations look for opportunities in their own supply chains to make a positive impact on reducing carbon emissions.
The Sixth Assessment Report by the IPCC addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have produced groundbreaking technological innovation. It’s now time to embrace this progress and utilise the full power of AI to help accelerate our fight against climate change.
It is for companies to track all Scope 3 emissions, the greenhouse gas emissions of other companies in a company’s value chain. But it is also an admission that if it’s “code red for humanity” in slowing climate change, the corporate world has not come nearly far enough in recent decades in figuring out how to track carbon emissions through the entire supply chain. And that is a point of frustration for climate experts who have been working on science-based carbon targets, tracking and accounting for decades.
Reporting and reducing Scope 3 emissions is of most immediate relevance to organizations who report to CDP or have committed to Science Based Targets; and it has the most impact for organizations that operate in one of the eight supply chains that account for over 50% of global emissions – namely food, construction, fashion, fast-moving-consumer-goods, electronics, automotive, professional services and freight.
It’s quiz time to see what you learned about scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions.
New standards provide an essential foundation for strategic thinking around reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They allow businesses to identify the activities that generate the most emissions. Taking the next steps on this learning path helps you learn how CIBO Enterprise can help you address those areas of concern and work on reducing emissions.
Experience: Expert
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As a company accelerates its net zero journey, it will become increasingly clear that solutions to reduce emissions within the supply chain will be the most challenging, yet most impactful. Businesses with agriculture in their supply chains know that they have to act if they’re going to bring the climate commitments from their boardroom to life at the farm gate. That’s where CIBO Enterprise comes in.
Most corporations start with Scope 1 and 2 emissions, which can be reduced through direct actions taken by the company. Although Scope 3 emissions are more challenging to reduce, for many companies, they represent a majority of overall emissions, so to truly make an impact they should not be ignored.
CIBO is on a mission to power an agriculture ecosystem that is environmentally and economically sustainable. CIBO’s technology can predict the potential impact of regenerative practices from any farm field. We call it Regenerative Potential, which evaluates the land’s ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester soil carbon over the course of a growing season precisely to individual acreage.
CIBO provides a breakthrough new approach to supporting, measuring, and, most importantly, compensating farmers for their sustainable practices. Find out why your organization should enroll their growers in CIBO today.
In recent years, there has been an explosion of awareness and increased consciousness around climate change. Corporations are making very bold proclamations and commitments from the boardroom out to their supply chains. As a result, more and more companies around the world are stepping forward with climate commitments. However, these voluntary commitments often lack regulatory or legal definitions, making them challenging to understand.
With our transformative technology, CIBO clarifies the best restorative choices, enabling organizations and farmers to reap the full rewards of sustainable practices. By opening up the market for both buyers and sellers, CIBO is focused on driving the transition to sustainable agriculture, providing an understanding of the land and its regenerative potential.
It’s quiz time to see what you learned about scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions.
