Scope 3 is 70% of your emissions. It's also the hardest to calculate. We automated it.
Value chain emissions span purchased goods and services, upstream and downstream freight, employee travel, waste, and the emissions embedded in your suppliers' own operations. Across manufacturing, Scope 3 typically accounts for 68–74% of a company's total GHG footprint — and it's the hardest category to calculate without structured data collection. Circulyft covers all 15 GHG Protocol Scope 3 categories, with six categories on live integrations and the remainder handled through supplier questionnaire import or spend-based estimation with documented assumptions.
GHG Protocol Scope 3 — upstream and downstream
Coverage status shows how Circulyft collects data for each category. Live integration = data pulled automatically via API or structured feed. Questionnaire / import = primary supplier data or structured CSV ingestion. Estimation = spend-based or activity-based proxy with documented emission factor and assumption set — all estimation assumptions are recorded in the audit trail for auditor review.
Category 1 supplier data — collected, chased, and ingested without manual work
GHG Protocol Category 1 (purchased goods and services) requires primary supplier data wherever available — spend-based estimation is only a fallback. Circulyft's supplier module sends structured questionnaires to your supplier list, sends automated reminders at 7 and 14 days, and ingests completed responses directly into your Category 1 calculation. No spreadsheet collation, no re-entry.
Stop estimating your Scope 3. Get the primary data your ESRS E1 disclosure requires.
In a 30-minute demo, we walk through your supply chain and show you which Scope 3 categories you can cover with live integrations today — and which supplier questionnaires to send first.
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