Scope 1 emissions are direct GHG emissions that a company generates from its owned and controlled resources. This includes generation of electricity, manufacture and processing of materials, waste processing, and transportation using the company’s own vehicle fleet.

Scope 2 emissions are the indirect emissions generated from the generation of purchased energy from a utility provider.

Scope 3 emissions are all indirect emissions (not included in Scope 2) that occur in the value chain of a company. These emissions are a consequence of the company’s business activities, including both upstream and downstream emissions.

This refers to measurement, tracking, and analytics surrounding all Environmental Social & Governance drivers, for example water usage, diversity, waste generation.

The partner offers a technology solution, such as a web app that provides functionality for the client.

The partner measures impact based on how many units of a particular resource or material that a company has purchased. For example, it could be gallons of fuel, pounds of fertilizer etc.

The partner offers hands-on consultative services on climate topics as a part of its carbon measurement experience.

The partner prepares reports and metrics to support requirements necessary to share with TCFD, SASB, GRI, CDP, etc.

The partner conducts its services, and provides transparency, audit, and verification that ensures the product, service or output is ready to be independently audited and approved. This is most often relevant for public corporations and reporting — a company standard being ISO-14064.

The partner measures impact based on the financial value of a purchased good or service and multiplies it by an emission factor.

The partner provides a tool or service that interacts directly with the client’s suppliers and supports more detailed analysis of Scope 3 emissions within a company’s supply chain.

The partner leverages an API or tech-based approaches (e.g., OAuth) to automatically ingest data to assist in carbon accounting and measurement.