These include emissions from activities owned or controlled by an organisation that release emissions into the atmosphere. They are direct emissions where carbon emissions go directly into the atmosphere. Examples of Scope 1 emissions include emissions from combustion in owned or controlled boilers, furnaces, fuel burned in company owned/leased vehicles.
These include emissions released into the atmosphere associated with an organisation’s consumption of purchased electricity, heat, steam and cooling. These are indirect emissions that are a consequence of your organisation’s activities, but which occur at sources you do not own or control. For example, when you purchase electricity, the emissions happen indirectly at the power station.
Emissions that are a consequence of your actions, which occur at sources which you do not own or control and which are not classed as Scope 2 emissions. Examples of Scope 3 emissions are business travel by means not owned or controlled by your organisation, waste disposal which is not owned or controlled, or purchased materials.
Learn more about the scope 3 categories that are included here.
