Scope 3 for SBTi
Scope 3 you can sign your target on
An SBTi-ready inventory of everything you buy, in weeks. Primary data where it matters. Suppliers when you are ready.
SBTi FLAG · GHG Protocol incl. LSRS · ISO 14067 · PACT-aligned. Bring your purchased-product list: that is all we need to start.
Three situations. One answer
Your SBTi report is due and your scope 3 is built on averages
Averages cannot move when a supplier improves, or split for FLAG. Footprints of what you buy do both.
Your auditor wants the source behind every number
Every footprint has a technical report with its sources, and every movement is on the record.
Primary data in old LCAs and field sheets, and nowhere to put it
Enter it once, on the same model as everything else. It counts from the day it goes in.
How it works
Cover. Deepen. Engage
Broad first, deep where the volume is, suppliers when you can tell them why.
Your target is due and your scope 3 is spend factors and old LCAs.
Cover. Every purchased product, from day one
Send your purchased-product list. Every item comes back with a country-specific footprint, FLAG split, per-gas breakdown and a technical report. Base year set.
Days for fifty items. Weeks for a full range.
You hold primary data on your key ingredients and nowhere to put it.
Deepen. Primary data where it matters
Pick the raw materials that carry the weight and enter the data you hold, or invite the supplier. The Primary Data Share climbs.
Your team enters, or your supplier does. Same model either way.
Your suppliers are not ready, and you are not ready to push them.
Engage. Suppliers when you are ready
A trigger, not a prerequisite. Free, private supplier accounts, with requests that travel tier by tier to the farm.
The playbook that got more than half of Bidfood’s first wave connected in two weeks.
One dataset, one model, throughout
Everything is calculated the same way, so when a number moves you know why: the real world changed, the data improved, or the method was updated. The Change Log tells them apart.
Your corporate reporting system keeps its job, or we carry scope 1, 2 and the rest.
Corporate footprintThen track it
Your target, on the record
Base year set the day you start, target path beside the actuals, every movement classified. A database update never restates your history by surprise.
Already have a base year? We recalculate it on the same model.
Three sentences your report can carry
A reduction in purchased-goods emissions, with the products and suppliers behind it.
Product by product, supplier by supplier, in the Change Log.A base year that held through the 2027 rule changes.
Restated by the book when standards moved; history comparable throughout.The share of purchased-goods emissions resting on supplier data, disclosed.
The Primary Data Share, per category, as the GHG Protocol asks you to report it.Four things your auditor will ask. Four answers on every footprint
Where does this number come from?
A technical report per footprint, with the sources listed. Nothing from a database we cannot explain.
Is the method the same everywhere?
One model for benchmark and supplier figures, the same methods on the same background data, for every company on the platform.
What changed since last year, and why?
The Change Log: every movement classified as a real reduction, a data improvement or a method update, and the base year restated by the book.
Which standards?
GHG Protocol incl. land sector and removals, ISO 14067, SBTi FLAG. PACT-aligned data exchange.
Customer proof
In use by producers and retailers with targets to meet
In public: Dole Nordic computes categories 1 and 4 of its inventory from more than 10,000 product footprint models developed with CarbonCloud (Sustainability Report 2025, pp. 21 and 26). Read how Bidfood brought its suppliers onto the climate journey.
Questions we get on every call
Our auditors want the source of every secondary number
Every footprint has a technical report with its sources listed.
We cannot share supplier identities or locations
You do not. Each supplier has its own account; you see results and data quality, never the inputs, and production locations stay in the supplier's account.
Can we use our own emission factors?
For your own inputs, yes, with the evidence recorded. Footprints that travel between companies are calculated by the platform, on one method.
We have no primary data for our base year
Not needed. The base year can rest on secondary data.
We already have a reporting system
Keep it. We feed it the scope 3.1 and 3.4 layer, by report or API.
Some of what we buy is niche
Most items have a neighbour in the model. Where there is none, the science team sets it up.
Start with your purchased-product list
Name, category, country, volume: enough for an inventory in weeks.
SBTi-ready: built to the GHG Protocol categories that SBTi FLAG targets rest on. SBTi validates targets, not tools.