Climate & Environment
Value Chain Emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain — the Scope 3 framing that captures the full footprint beyond the factory gate.
Definition
Value chain emissions are the greenhouse gas emissions arising across an organisation's entire value chain — upstream (purchased goods, transport, commuting) and downstream (product use, disposal) — corresponding to the GHG Protocol's Scope 3 categories added to its own Scope 1 and 2. For most companies value chain emissions exceed operational emissions severalfold, which is why science-based targets require Scope 3 coverage when it exceeds 40% of the total — as it almost always does.
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