Does DitchCarbon have geographic limitations?

No. DitchCarbon covers over 2 million organisations worldwide, and coverage is not restricted by country or region. Where a company has not disclosed, we apply industry and region specific estimates. Every figure carries its source and change history.

How often is supplier emissions data updated?

Continuous refresh, with documented sources. New disclosures, filings and direct submissions are ingested as they are published, so a profile can change at any point in the year. Most teams review their supplier and portfolio data quarterly.

How quickly can we get emissions coverage across our suppliers?

Numbers you can defend within 2 weeks. We start from public data, so most of your spend or portfolio is matched and calculated before anyone contacts a single organisation. A recent deployment reached about 60% of a large supplier base within 2 weeks.

How many companies does DitchCarbon have emissions data on?

Over 2 million organisations. That includes listed companies, private companies, and the long tail of small suppliers that usually sit outside emissions databases. Entity resolution against DUNS, LEI and ISIN identifiers matches your list to the right entity.

What if a supplier has not disclosed its emissions yet?

We estimate, and we label the estimate. Where a company has published nothing, DitchCarbon applies industry and region specific emission factors, marks the figure as estimated, and shows the method behind it. The estimate is replaced when that organisation discloses.

Where does DitchCarbon get emissions data from?

Four sources: direct disclosures from organisations that claim their public profile, disclosure programmes including CDP, SBTi and the UN Global Compact, published sustainability reports and company filings, and private files such as LCA and PCF data shared with a single customer.

Can DitchCarbon give us supplier-specific Scope 3 emissions?

Yes. When an organisation discloses its own Scope 1, Scope 2 and relevant Scope 3 figures, DitchCarbon uses those rather than an industry average, and the result flows into your Category 1 and Category 2 totals.

What emission factors does DitchCarbon use?

Where an organisation discloses, we derive a supplier-specific factor from its own reported Scope 1, Scope 2 and relevant upstream Scope 3. Where it does not, we apply published industry factor sets, currently EPA data for service categories. Our emission factor methodology was independently assessed by Globus Thenken, August 2025.

How does DitchCarbon calculate emissions for service suppliers?

Services get the same treatment as goods. If the supplier reports Scope 1, Scope 2 and relevant upstream Scope 3, we build a supplier-specific spend-based factor from those figures. If not, we apply an industry factor, currently from the EPA set.

Is DitchCarbon only spend-based?

No. DitchCarbon uses the most specific method your data supports: product level where LCA or PCF data exists, supplier-specific spend-based where an organisation discloses its own emissions, and industry spend-based only where nothing has been published.

How does DitchCarbon estimate emissions for organisations that have not disclosed?

With published industry and region specific factor sets, rather than one global average. Each estimate carries its method and source, sits next to a data quality indicator, and is superseded as soon as the organisation discloses.

How do you benchmark an organisation's climate maturity?

Against its industry peers, on four inputs: emissions intensity, disclosure quality, climate commitments such as validated science-based targets and CDP responses, and the direction of travel over time. The score shows which inputs drove it.

Can the platform show which suppliers or portfolio companies have unusually high emissions?

Yes. Emissions intensity is compared against industry peers, so organisations well above their peer group surface without you setting a threshold first. Procurement teams use this to choose engagement targets by category. Finance teams use the same view across a portfolio.

What goes into a DitchCarbon score besides emissions?

Disclosure behaviour and commitments. An organisation that does not measure or publish scores lower. We also weigh its industry, the emissions trend over time, and participation in CDP and the Science Based Targets initiative.

Can we filter organisations by data quality?

Yes. Every profile carries a data quality indicator showing whether the figure was disclosed, third-party assured, or estimated. You can filter on it to separate the organisations with assured numbers from the ones you need to engage.

How does DitchCarbon rank and score organisations?

The full method is published, including the inputs, the weightings, and how peer groups are drawn. Read the DitchCarbon score methodology at https://ditchcarbon.com/resources/calculation.

How much work is this for the organisations we ask?

Very little. A supplier or portfolio company can claim its profile, review the data we have already gathered, and correct it, or simply email a file in whatever format it already holds. There is no fixed questionnaire.

Do you help design outreach campaigns?

Yes. Outreach uses a short template that states exactly what is in and out of scope, so the recipient can see the whole ask on one screen. Submissions arrive in any format, are checked, and are passed into your systems.

What does automation actually take off our team?

The chasing. Finding disclosures, reading reports, extracting the figures and matching them to the right legal entity all happen before anyone on your team opens a spreadsheet. Your analysts spend their time on engagement and reduction planning.

What support do suppliers and portfolio companies get?

A prepopulated profile to check rather than a blank form, plus documentation and a support contact. Everything is free to them, including a simple calculator for organisations measuring for the first time.

What response rate should we expect from outreach?

Higher than a cold survey. A prepopulated request asks an organisation to check figures we have already gathered rather than to compile them, which gets a higher supplier response rate than a blank questionnaire. Coverage does not depend on replies either.

Can suppliers submit emissions data directly?

Yes. Any organisation can claim its profile at https://ditchcarbon.com/claim-your-profile and submit or update data itself, at no cost. Each submission is checked, dated and shown with its source.

Is any other Scope 3 tool third-party assured?

DitchCarbon is the only specialist Scope 3 tool with third-party assurance of its calculation methodology. Our published benchmark lists every carbon software vendor we checked, verified or not, with the verifier and the evidence for each: https://ditchcarbon.com/blog/whos-really-verified-reality-check-carbon-software-assurance.

Is DitchCarbon our corporate GHG inventory system of record?

For Scope 3 categories 1, 2 and 15, yes. DitchCarbon is a specialist Scope 3 carbon accounting tool rather than a full inventory platform, so it holds the verified supplier and portfolio data behind those categories and feeds your inventory or reporting system.

Do you handle PCFs and PACT quality checks?

Yes. We accept product carbon footprints in any format, extract the figures, and flag quality problems, including whether a submission meets the PACT framework. The check result travels with the data point.

How do you match suppliers to the right legal entity?

Entity resolution against DUNS, LEI and ISIN identifiers, plus company name, website domain and email. Parent and subsidiary relationships are resolved as well, so emissions land on the correct entity rather than the group.

Can we see the original source document and its assurance status?

Yes. Every figure links to its source, deep linked to the page it came from, and shows whether the underlying number was third-party assured, disclosed without assurance, or estimated. That is the level of provenance a third-party auditor asks for first.

Do exports include the evidence and the audit trail?

Yes. Exports carry the same provenance as the application: source documents, assurance status, the method used, and the change history for every figure. The evidence is auditable in the file itself.

How do you verify the accuracy of supplier emissions data?

Three layers. AI extraction is reviewed by a team of 15 analysts, who check anything that looks wrong. Automated checks compare each figure against the organisation's own history and its peer range. The calculator that produces the numbers is verified to ISO 14064-3, limited assurance, by UL Solutions, renewed annually.

What data integrity checks do you run?

Extracted figures are validated automatically against anomalies, unit errors and the organisation's own reporting history. Anything that fails escalates to an analyst before it enters the platform. Nothing reaches your reporting on an automated pass alone.

Can we plan reductions at category level?

Yes. Emissions can be viewed by purchasing category as well as by supplier, with reduction initiatives drawn from documented case studies that you can reuse in a QBR or an SRM tool.

Can DitchCarbon recommend actions to improve an organisation's performance?

Yes. Each profile carries recommended actions, relevant case studies and suggested contract terms, based on where that organisation sits against its industry peers. The recommendations are specific to the sector and the maturity level.

Does the platform support supplier screening in an RFP?

Yes. Scores and peer benchmarks are available at the point of sourcing, so a buyer can see a bidder's emissions intensity, disclosure quality and target status before award.

Can emissions data sit inside our procurement tools?

Yes. DitchCarbon fits the tools you already run, so scores, benchmarks and emissions data appear in the ERP, P2P or BI system your category managers already use.

Does DitchCarbon integrate with our ERP and procurement systems?

Yes. There are existing integrations with SAP, Coupa and Salesforce, plus an API and file based options for everything else. Data moves both ways: spend comes in, and emissions, scores and evidence go back out.

What does it mean when a supplier discloses through CDP?

CDP runs a global environmental disclosure system, so a CDP response usually means the organisation has measured its emissions and had them reviewed, sometimes externally. DitchCarbon ingests CDP responses, so a disclosed figure replaces an estimate on that profile automatically.

Can we track custom metrics such as renewable energy use?

Renewable energy share is not included by default. Custom fields can be added, including renewable electricity percentage and other sustainability KPIs you already collect, and they sit on the same profile as the emissions data.

How does DitchCarbon keep up with CSRD, ESRS E1 and SFDR?

The data model follows what the standards ask for: emissions split by Scope 3 category, data quality and provenance on every figure, and the method behind every estimate. Whether a given report meets CSRD or SFDR is a determination for you and your auditor.

How does DitchCarbon align with CDP and SBTi?

Both are ingested and tracked. CDP responses feed supplier and portfolio profiles, and SBTi target status, including near-term targets, long-term targets and net zero commitments, sits on every profile.

Do suppliers pay to disclose?

Never. Charging an organisation to share its own emissions data is a model we will not run. Suppliers and portfolio companies get a free profile, free data updates with no form to fill in, reduction recommendations, emissions forecasting, and a simple calculator.

Can we run a pilot on a short supplier list?

Yes. Send a small set, 20 organisations is common, and we pull the data under NDA, give you a login, and show you the sources and the exports. You see the actual provenance for your own suppliers or holdings.

How is DitchCarbon priced and licensed?

An annual subscription, scaled to the size of your organisation, with up to 50 users on a typical licence. Purchasing through AWS Marketplace is being enabled to simplify onboarding.

Is emissions data only available in the web app?

No. The same data is available through the API and through existing integrations with the procurement and sustainability systems teams already run, SAP included.

How is client data kept separate for resellers?

Each client sits in its own environment, with its own portal, analytics and access control. DitchCarbon is GDPR compliant, with encryption in transit and at rest. The SOC 2 Type II report and penetration testing summary are downloadable from our trust centre.

Can resellers co-brand reporting outputs?

Yes. Reports can carry your brand alongside ours, and white label options are available for the wider platform. The provenance and evidence inside the report stay intact.

What training and support do partners get?

Onboarding sessions for your team, API and methodology documentation, and a named contact for ongoing support. Partners get the same methodology material we give customers.

Can resellers manage multiple client accounts?

Yes. One login can span many client environments, each with separate data, analytics and reporting. Consultancies run several client programmes side by side without moving data between accounts.

Can resellers offer benchmarking and scoring to clients?

Yes. Peer and industry benchmarks and DitchCarbon scores are available to partners for their own client reporting, with the same provenance as the emissions data underneath them.

Can the platform be customised for a reseller?

Yes. The API and white label options let you build your own front end or embed DitchCarbon data in an existing client portal. The calculation methodology is the part that does not change, because that is what the ISO 14064-3 verification covers.

Questions we get asked most

Frequently Asked Questions

DitchCarbon provides verified emissions data for over 2 million organisations, so procurement, sustainability and finance teams can measure and act on supply chain and portfolio emissions from one source. These are the questions buyers, suppliers and auditors ask us most often, grouped by topic, with a glossary of the terms underneath.

Supplier emissions data coverage

Scope 3 methodology and calculation

Supplier benchmarking, scoring & risk Insights

Supplier engagement & data collection

Data quality, auditability & integrity

Procurement & workflow integration

Sustainability reporting & compliance frameworks

Platform access, pricing & commercial model

Partner & reseller FAQs

Glossary

Scope 3 emissions are the indirect greenhouse gas emissions in a company's value chain. Scope 1 covers direct emissions from sources the company owns or controls, Scope 2 covers purchased energy, and Scope 3 covers everything else, from the goods and services you buy through to how customers use what you sell.

For most organisations Scope 3 is both the largest part of the footprint and the hardest part to measure, because the data belongs to other companies. It runs from purchased materials to the end of life treatment of your products.

Put simply, Scope 3 emissions are all the emissions you are responsible for but do not directly create. That includes your supply chain, business travel, employee commuting, and how customers use your products.

Measuring them is the part every reporting standard now asks about, and the part most programmes stall on.

Why is Scope 3 a priority now?

Scope 3 sits inside reporting requirements, procurement decisions and investor questions at the same time. Three reasons it moves up the list:

It is where the emissions are. For most organisations the value chain is a larger source than everything they own and operate.
Reporting standards ask for it by category, and ask how much of the total rests on primary data rather than averages.
It is the part you can only move with other organisations, which makes supplier and portfolio engagement the work rather than an add on.

The obstacle has always been data. Gathering figures from hundreds or thousands of suppliers by hand pushes teams onto proxy data and averages that an auditor will question, and by the time the spreadsheet is finished the year has moved on.

The 15 categories of Scope 3

The GHG Protocol splits Scope 3 into 15 categories so an organisation can map its value chain and see where the emissions sit. Categories 1 to 8 are upstream, categories 9 to 15 are downstream.

Upstream categories

These cover the goods, services and activities that reach your organisation.

1. Purchased goods and services: emissions from the production of all the products and services you buy.

2. Capital goods: emissions from producing capital goods like machinery, buildings, and vehicles.

3. Fuel and energy related activities: emissions from the production of fuels and energy you have purchased and consumed (not already covered in Scope 1 or 2).

4. Upstream transportation and distribution: emissions from transporting and distributing products from your Tier 1 suppliers to your own facilities.

5. Waste generated in operations: emissions from disposing of waste created in your operations.

6. Business travel: emissions from employee travel for business purposes, including flights, trains and hotels.

7. Employee commuting: emissions from your employees' travel between their homes and their workplaces.

8. Upstream leased assets: emissions from operating assets that you lease.

Downstream categories

These cover what happens to your products and services after they leave you.

9. Downstream transportation and distribution: emissions from transporting and distributing products to the end consumer.

10. Processing of sold products: emissions from the processing of your intermediate products by other companies.

11. Use of sold products: emissions from the use of your products by consumers.

12. End-of-life treatment of sold products: emissions from the disposal and treatment of your products after they are used.

13. Downstream leased assets: emissions from the operation of assets you own and lease to others.

14. Franchises: emissions from the operation of your franchises.

15. Investments: emissions associated with your financial investments.

From chasing suppliers to auditable numbers

The old way of running Scope 3 was chasing suppliers, holding the result in a master spreadsheet, filling the gaps with industry averages, and defending the total to an auditor months later. Teams describe it as heads in spreadsheets, and the answer arrives too late to change a sourcing decision.

OLD: chase suppliers, master spreadsheet, industry averages, audit ping pong, top 50 suppliers only.
NEW: verified supplier and portfolio data in one place, continuous refresh with documented sources, evidence attached to every figure.

Consolidating verified data from disclosures, filings and direct submissions gives you one source of truth with the provenance attached, so a figure can be traced to its document without anyone reopening the exercise. Numbers you can defend within 2 weeks, then a quarterly rhythm rather than an annual scramble.

That frees the team for the work that changes the number: engaging the organisations that matter, finding the reduction opportunities, and tracking whether they land. The calculator behind the figures is verified to ISO 14064-3, limited assurance, by UL Solutions, renewed annually: see the reports in our trust centre.

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