Carbon Leaders disclose Scope 3 emissions – What’s the point?

In early November, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) released the CDP 2010 Europe 300 Report. With an overall response rate of 82 percent, 74 percent of those responding disclosed at least one source of indirect emissions that occur outside of the companies own operations (Scope 3). On a global level, all companies in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) report some Scope 3 emissions. The majority of these organizations focused on emissions from business travel. Only a few of the top-scoring companies such as Bayer, Cisco, Iberdrola, Munich Re and Nokia disclosed supply chain emissions or emissions from the use and disposal of their products.

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