{"id":3593,"date":"2026-07-10T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectfifty4.com\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:26:55","slug":"scope-3-category-1-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectfifty4.com\/fr\/scope-3-category-1-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"Explication de la cat\u00e9gorie 1 du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3\u00a0: Biens et services achet\u00e9s et portail de donn\u00e9es du fournisseur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Category 1, purchased goods and services, is usually the largest slice of a company&#8217;s Scope 3 footprint and the one a buyer can only cut through its supply chain. That is why suppliers to majors like Shell are now asked for primary carbon data, and why a credible Scope 3 number has quietly become a condition of winning B2B contracts.<\/p>\n<h2>R\u00e9ponse rapide<\/h2>\n<p>Scope 3 Category 1 is purchased goods and services: the cradle-to-gate emissions embedded in everything a company buys, from steel and chemicals to software and professional services. Under the GHG Protocol it is the first of fifteen Scope 3 categories and, for most buyers, the single largest one. It matters to suppliers because it is the part of a buyer&#8217;s footprint that only procurement can reduce, so cutting it means asking suppliers for primary carbon data and reductions. For Shell, Category 1 was about 119 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2024. Increasingly, a supplier&#8217;s own emissions data is what decides whether it clears the buyer&#8217;s qualification gate.<\/p>\n<h2>Points cl\u00e9s \u00e0 retenir<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>La cat\u00e9gorie 1 du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3, biens et services achet\u00e9s, correspond aux \u00e9missions \u00ab du berceau \u00e0 la porte \u00bb de tout ce qu&#039;une entreprise ach\u00e8te, et en vertu du protocole sur les GES, il s&#039;agit de la premi\u00e8re et g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement de la plus importante des quinze cat\u00e9gories du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3.<\/li>\n<li>For manufacturers, Category 1 alone can exceed 60 percent of total emissions, and across sectors Scope 3 is typically 70 to 95 percent of a company&#8217;s footprint, so a buyer cannot hit its targets without its suppliers.<\/li>\n<li>CDP reports that corporate supply chain emissions are on average about 26 times higher than a company&#8217;s own operational emissions, which is why large buyers push carbon accounting down into their supply base.<\/li>\n<li>L&#039;acheteur ne peut influencer la cat\u00e9gorie 1 que par le biais des achats ; la r\u00e9duire implique donc de passer d&#039;estimations bas\u00e9es sur les d\u00e9penses \u00e0 des donn\u00e9es primaires sp\u00e9cifiques aux fournisseurs, et de demander directement ces donn\u00e9es aux fournisseurs.<\/li>\n<li>Pour les fournisseurs B2B, l&#039;effet pratique est un crit\u00e8re de s\u00e9lection : des donn\u00e9es cr\u00e9dibles sur le Scope 3 deviennent une condition pour \u00eatre pr\u00e9s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9, et un fournisseur qui ne peut pas r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question du carbone est facile \u00e0 \u00e9liminer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Qu\u2019est-ce que la cat\u00e9gorie 1 du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3 exactement\u00a0?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>La premi\u00e8re, et g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement la plus importante, des quinze cat\u00e9gories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, a company&#8217;s indirect value-chain emissions are split into fifteen categories. Category 1, purchased goods and services, captures the upstream, cradle-to-gate emissions from the production of everything the company buys in a reporting year, up to the point of receipt, excluding anything already counted in categories 2 through 8.<\/p>\n<p>In plain terms, it is the carbon embedded in the goods and services on a company&#8217;s purchase ledger: the steel, cement, chemicals, equipment, logistics inputs, software and professional services it acquires. For most buyers it is the single largest Scope 3 category, and for manufacturers it alone can account for more than 60 percent of total emissions. That scale is exactly why it is the category procurement teams are told to attack first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Biens et services achet\u00e9s\u00a0:<\/strong> Toutes les \u00e9missions en amont li\u00e9es \u00e0 la production des biens et services achet\u00e9s par une entreprise, depuis les mati\u00e8res premi\u00e8res jusqu&#039;aux services externalis\u00e9s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fronti\u00e8re du berceau \u00e0 la porte :<\/strong> Counts emissions across the product life cycle up to the point of receipt, excluding the buyer&#8217;s own operations.<\/li>\n<li><strong>G\u00e9n\u00e9ralement la plus grande part :<\/strong> Pour les fabricants, la cat\u00e9gorie 1 peut repr\u00e9senter plus de 60 % des \u00e9missions totales, ce qui en fait la cible prioritaire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pourquoi la cat\u00e9gorie 1 incombe-t-elle aux fournisseurs plut\u00f4t qu&#039;\u00e0 l&#039;acheteur\u00a0?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Le seul levier dont dispose un acheteur est l&#039;approvisionnement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scopes 1 and 2 are the emissions a company controls directly, its own fuel and its purchased electricity. Category 1 is different: the emissions physically happen inside the supplier&#8217;s operations, not the buyer&#8217;s. A buyer cannot retrofit a supplier&#8217;s factory or switch its power contract. The only lever it has is the purchasing relationship, which is why the pressure travels down the chain to the people who can actually change the number.<\/p>\n<p>The GHG Protocol allows four ways to calculate Category 1: supplier-specific, hybrid, average-data and spend-based. Spend-based and average-data methods use industry averages and need nothing from the supplier, but they are blunt and cannot show real reductions. Supplier-specific and hybrid methods require primary data collected from the supplier. As buyers move from spend-based estimates toward supplier-specific data, the request for a real carbon number lands squarely on the vendor&#8217;s desk.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Non directement contr\u00f4lable :<\/strong> Category 1 emissions occur in the supplier&#8217;s operations, so the buyer can only act through procurement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>L&#039;approche bas\u00e9e sur les d\u00e9penses est directe :<\/strong> Les m\u00e9thodes bas\u00e9es sur les moyennes et les d\u00e9penses ne n\u00e9cessitent aucune contribution des fournisseurs, mais ne permettent pas de d\u00e9montrer de v\u00e9ritables r\u00e9ductions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Les donn\u00e9es primaires modifient la demande\u00a0:<\/strong> Les m\u00e9thodes sp\u00e9cifiques aux fournisseurs et les m\u00e9thodes hybrides n\u00e9cessitent des donn\u00e9es primaires, l&#039;acheteur doit donc les demander au fournisseur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Comment les grands acheteurs acqui\u00e8rent-ils concr\u00e8tement des donn\u00e9es de cat\u00e9gorie 1\u00a0?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Questionnaires, plateformes et un acc\u00e8s aux donn\u00e9es de plus en plus \u00e9tendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Les acheteurs recueillent les donn\u00e9es carbone de leurs fournisseurs par le biais de divers m\u00e9canismes\u00a0: codes et principes fournisseurs d\u00e9finissant les attentes, questionnaires d\u2019approvisionnement et plateformes telles que CDP Supply Chain et EcoVadis, et, pour les plus grands \u00e9metteurs, feuilles de route directes en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9carbonation. Shell, par exemple, utilise ses Principes fournisseurs et son engagement aupr\u00e8s de la cha\u00eene d\u2019approvisionnement pour demander \u00e0 ses fournisseurs des donn\u00e9es carbone primaires, d\u00e9finir des objectifs et partager leurs performances, et a sign\u00e9 des protocoles d\u2019accord non contraignants avec plusieurs de ses plus importants fournisseurs \u00e9metteurs.<\/p>\n<p>L&#039;acc\u00e8s aux donn\u00e9es est encore en pleine expansion. Le CDP a constat\u00e9 que seulement 13 % des entreprises environ incluent des exigences climatiques dans leurs contrats fournisseurs et que moins de 6 % exigent de leurs fournisseurs la publication de donn\u00e9es climatiques. Cette pratique est donc loin d&#039;\u00eatre g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9e. Cependant, elle se renforce rapidement et porte ses fruits\u00a0: les fournisseurs \u00e9taient 52 % plus susceptibles de r\u00e9duire leurs \u00e9missions lorsque les acheteurs proposaient des incitations financi\u00e8res plut\u00f4t que de simples formations. Pour un fournisseur, le message est clair\u00a0: les questionnaires se complexifient et la pr\u00e9paration devient un atout concurrentiel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Codes et questionnaires\u00a0:<\/strong> Les principes des fournisseurs, la cha\u00eene d&#039;approvisionnement du CDP et EcoVadis constituent les canaux standard pour demander des donn\u00e9es sur le carbone.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Un multiplicateur de 26x :<\/strong> CDP finds supply-chain emissions average about 26 times a company&#8217;s operational emissions, so buyers must engage suppliers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Il est encore t\u00f4t, mais \u00e7a va vite :<\/strong> Aujourd&#039;hui, seulement 13 % environ des entreprises incluent des clauses climatiques dans leurs contrats, mais les incitations rendent les r\u00e9ductions de fournisseurs 52 % plus probables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Pourquoi la cat\u00e9gorie 1 est-elle devenue un crit\u00e8re de qualification commerciale ?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Les donn\u00e9es carbone se transforment en monnaie B2B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regulation is hardening the ask. Under the EU&#8217;s CSRD and the ESRS E1 climate standard, in-scope companies must disclose how much of their Scope 3 is based on primary versus secondary data, which pushes buyers to collect real supplier figures rather than estimates. Science-based targets add to it: a company with an approved SBTi target for Scope 3 typically commits to a share of suppliers setting their own targets, turning a buyer&#8217;s climate goal into a procurement requirement.<\/p>\n<p>De ce fait, les donn\u00e9es carbone des fournisseurs sont devenues, discr\u00e8tement, un crit\u00e8re commercial essentiel, et non plus une simple formalit\u00e9 de conformit\u00e9. Lors de la s\u00e9lection des fournisseurs par un grand groupe, un chiffre fiable et primaire en mati\u00e8re d&#039;\u00e9missions de port\u00e9e 3 (Scope 3) figure de plus en plus au m\u00eame titre que le prix, la qualit\u00e9 et les d\u00e9lais de livraison, comme crit\u00e8re de s\u00e9lection. Les fournisseurs capables de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 la question du carbone conservent leur place dans l&#039;appel d&#039;offres\u00a0; ceux qui ne le peuvent pas sont les plus faciles \u00e0 \u00e9liminer. Les donn\u00e9es carbone deviennent ainsi une forme de monnaie d&#039;\u00e9change interentreprises.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CSRD et ESRS E1\u00a0:<\/strong> Les entreprises concern\u00e9es doivent d\u00e9clarer la r\u00e9partition primaire\/secondaire du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3, incitant ainsi les acheteurs \u00e0 collecter des donn\u00e9es r\u00e9elles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectifs fond\u00e9s sur des donn\u00e9es scientifiques\u00a0:<\/strong> Les objectifs approuv\u00e9s dans le cadre du programme SBTi Scope 3 exigent g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement qu&#039;une partie des fournisseurs fixent leurs propres objectifs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crit\u00e8re de s\u00e9lection\u00a0:<\/strong> Les donn\u00e9es cr\u00e9dibles sur l&#039;empreinte carbone des fournisseurs figurent d\u00e9sormais au m\u00eame titre que le prix, la qualit\u00e9 et les d\u00e9lais de livraison dans le tableau de bord des appels d&#039;offres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Que doit faire un fournisseur concernant la cat\u00e9gorie 1\u00a0?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Transformer la question du carbone en un atout commercial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La strat\u00e9gie d\u00e9fensive consiste \u00e0 \u00eatre pr\u00eat\u00a0: fournir des chiffres solides pour les port\u00e9es 1 et 2, d\u00e9marrer sa propre cat\u00e9gorie 1 et \u00eatre capable de remplir un questionnaire CDP ou EcoVadis sans difficult\u00e9. Les m\u00e9thodes importent moins que de disposer de chiffres cr\u00e9dibles et document\u00e9s, ainsi que d\u2019une orientation claire\u00a0; les acheteurs recherchent la comp\u00e9tence et la dynamique, pas la perfection.<\/p>\n<p>The offensive move is to make it a selling point. A supplier that can hand a buyer clean primary data, a reduction trajectory and a clear story removes friction from the buyer&#8217;s own reporting and makes itself the low-risk choice. That is the Project 54 view: for energy and industrial vendors, carbon data is no longer a cost of compliance but a piece of commercial positioning, and the suppliers who treat it that way win the contracts that data-blind competitors lose.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Obtenez un chiffre d\u00e9fendable\u00a0:<\/strong> Un chiffre document\u00e9 pour les port\u00e9es 1 et 2 et un d\u00e9but sur la cat\u00e9gorie 1 valent mieux qu&#039;un chiffre parfait mais tardif.<\/li>\n<li><strong>R\u00e9pondez au questionnaire\u00a0:<\/strong> \u00catre en mesure de compl\u00e9ter le CDP ou l&#039;EcoVadis sur demande ; la capacit\u00e9 d&#039;adaptation en elle-m\u00eame est un facteur de diff\u00e9renciation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faites-en un atout commercial\u00a0:<\/strong> Des donn\u00e9es primaires propres et une analyse d\u00e9taill\u00e9e des r\u00e9ductions de co\u00fbts font de vous le fournisseur \u00e0 faible risque pr\u00e9s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Foire aux questions<\/h2>\n<h3>Quelles sont les quinze cat\u00e9gories de port\u00e9e 3\u00a0?<\/h3>\n<p>Le Protocole GES divise les \u00e9missions de port\u00e9e 3 en quinze cat\u00e9gories, huit en amont et sept en aval. La cat\u00e9gorie 1 concerne les biens et services achet\u00e9s\u00a0; les autres incluent les biens d\u2019\u00e9quipement (2), les activit\u00e9s li\u00e9es aux combustibles et \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9nergie (3), les transports, les d\u00e9chets, les voyages d\u2019affaires, les d\u00e9placements domicile-travail, l\u2019utilisation des produits vendus et le traitement en fin de vie. La cat\u00e9gorie 1 repr\u00e9sente g\u00e9n\u00e9ralement la part la plus importante pour les acheteurs.<\/p>\n<h3>La cat\u00e9gorie 1 du p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre 3 correspond-elle aux biens et services achet\u00e9s\u00a0?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Category 1 is the GHG Protocol&#8217;s label for purchased goods and services: the upstream, cradle-to-gate emissions embedded in everything a company buys, up to the point of receipt.<\/p>\n<h3>En quoi la cat\u00e9gorie 1 diff\u00e8re-t-elle de la cat\u00e9gorie 2, les biens d&#039;\u00e9quipement\u00a0?<\/h3>\n<p>La cat\u00e9gorie 1 concerne les biens et services consomm\u00e9s au cours de l&#039;exercice, tandis que la cat\u00e9gorie 2 concerne les biens d&#039;\u00e9quipement, c&#039;est-\u00e0-dire les actifs \u00e0 long terme tels que les machines, les b\u00e2timents et les v\u00e9hicules acquis par une entreprise. Ces deux cat\u00e9gories rel\u00e8vent de l&#039;amont de la cha\u00eene d&#039;approvisionnement, mais sont comptabilis\u00e9es s\u00e9par\u00e9ment.<\/p>\n<h3>Les fournisseurs sont-ils tenus de d\u00e9clarer leurs propres activit\u00e9s de port\u00e9e 3\u00a0?<\/h3>\n<p>Not by default, but they are increasingly asked to provide primary emissions data so their buyer can calculate Category 1 accurately. See how that plays out in Shell&#8217;s Scope 3 and sustainable procurement and what a sustainable procurement application actually asks for.<\/p>\n<h3>Quelle est la diff\u00e9rence entre les donn\u00e9es bas\u00e9es sur les d\u00e9penses et les donn\u00e9es sp\u00e9cifiques aux fournisseurs\u00a0?<\/h3>\n<p>Les m\u00e9thodes bas\u00e9es sur les d\u00e9penses estiment les \u00e9missions \u00e0 partir des montants d\u00e9pens\u00e9s, en utilisant des moyennes sectorielles, sans n\u00e9cessiter l&#039;intervention des fournisseurs. Les m\u00e9thodes sp\u00e9cifiques aux fournisseurs, quant \u00e0 elles, utilisent des donn\u00e9es primaires fournies directement par ces derniers et sont plus pr\u00e9cises. C&#039;est cette tendance vers des donn\u00e9es sp\u00e9cifiques aux fournisseurs qui explique pourquoi les acheteurs demandent d\u00e9sormais aux vendeurs des chiffres r\u00e9els sur leurs \u00e9missions de carbone.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Category 1, purchased goods and services, is usually the largest slice of a company&#8217;s Scope 3 footprint and the one a buyer can only cut through its supply chain. That is why suppliers to majors like Shell are now asked for primary carbon data, and why a credible Scope 3 number has quietly become a condition of winning B2B contracts.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"p54_article_data":"{\"meta\":{\"kicker\":\"Insight - Explainer\",\"topics\":[\"Strategy\",\"Energy\"],\"title\":\"Scope 3 Category 1 Explained: Purchased Goods, Services and the Supplier Data Gate\",\"dek\":\"Category 1, purchased goods and services, is usually the largest slice of a company's Scope 3 footprint and the one a buyer can only cut through its supply chain. That is why suppliers to majors like Shell are now asked for primary carbon data, and why a credible Scope 3 number has quietly become a condition of winning B2B contracts.\",\"date\":\"2026-07-10\",\"readTime\":\"9 min read\",\"author\":\"Project 54, Research & Strategy\"},\"quickAnswer\":{\"q\":\"What is Scope 3 Category 1, and why does it matter to suppliers?\",\"a\":\"Scope 3 Category 1 is purchased goods and services: the cradle-to-gate emissions embedded in everything a company buys, from steel and chemicals to software and professional services. Under the GHG Protocol it is the first of fifteen Scope 3 categories and, for most buyers, the single largest one. It matters to suppliers because it is the part of a buyer's footprint that only procurement can reduce, so cutting it means asking suppliers for primary carbon data and reductions. For Shell, Category 1 was about 119 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2024. Increasingly, a supplier's own emissions data is what decides whether it clears the buyer's qualification gate.\"},\"takeaways\":[\"Scope 3 Category 1, purchased goods and services, is the cradle-to-gate emissions of everything a company buys, and under the GHG Protocol it is the first and usually the largest of the fifteen Scope 3 categories.\",\"For manufacturers, Category 1 alone can exceed 60 percent of total emissions, and across sectors Scope 3 is typically 70 to 95 percent of a company's footprint, so a buyer cannot hit its targets without its suppliers.\",\"CDP reports that corporate supply chain emissions are on average about 26 times higher than a company's own operational emissions, which is why large buyers push carbon accounting down into their supply base.\",\"The buyer can only influence Category 1 through procurement, so reducing it means moving from spend-based estimates to supplier-specific primary data, and asking vendors for that data directly.\",\"For B2B suppliers the practical effect is a qualification gate: credible Scope 3 data is becoming a condition of being shortlisted, and a supplier that cannot answer the carbon question is easy to screen out.\"],\"sections\":[{\"id\":\"definition\",\"q\":\"What exactly is Scope 3 Category 1?\",\"h\":\"The first, and usually the biggest, of fifteen categories\",\"p\":[\"Under the GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, a company's indirect value-chain emissions are split into fifteen categories. Category 1, purchased goods and services, captures the upstream, cradle-to-gate emissions from the production of everything the company buys in a reporting year, up to the point of receipt, excluding anything already counted in categories 2 through 8.\",\"In plain terms, it is the carbon embedded in the goods and services on a company's purchase ledger: the steel, cement, chemicals, equipment, logistics inputs, software and professional services it acquires. For most buyers it is the single largest Scope 3 category, and for manufacturers it alone can account for more than 60 percent of total emissions. That scale is exactly why it is the category procurement teams are told to attack first.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"Purchased goods and services\",\"d\":\"All upstream emissions from producing the goods and services a company buys, from raw materials to outsourced services.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"Cradle-to-gate boundary\",\"d\":\"Counts emissions across the product life cycle up to the point of receipt, excluding the buyer's own operations.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"Usually the largest slice\",\"d\":\"For manufacturers Category 1 can exceed 60 percent of total emissions, making it the priority target.\"}]},{\"id\":\"why-suppliers\",\"q\":\"Why does Category 1 land on suppliers rather than the buyer?\",\"h\":\"The only lever a buyer has is procurement\",\"p\":[\"Scopes 1 and 2 are the emissions a company controls directly, its own fuel and its purchased electricity. Category 1 is different: the emissions physically happen inside the supplier's operations, not the buyer's. A buyer cannot retrofit a supplier's factory or switch its power contract. The only lever it has is the purchasing relationship, which is why the pressure travels down the chain to the people who can actually change the number.\",\"The GHG Protocol allows four ways to calculate Category 1: supplier-specific, hybrid, average-data and spend-based. Spend-based and average-data methods use industry averages and need nothing from the supplier, but they are blunt and cannot show real reductions. Supplier-specific and hybrid methods require primary data collected from the supplier. As buyers move from spend-based estimates toward supplier-specific data, the request for a real carbon number lands squarely on the vendor's desk.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"Not directly controllable\",\"d\":\"Category 1 emissions occur in the supplier's operations, so the buyer can only act through procurement.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"Spend-based is blunt\",\"d\":\"Average and spend-based methods need no supplier input but cannot demonstrate genuine reductions.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"Primary data shifts the ask\",\"d\":\"Supplier-specific and hybrid methods require primary data, so the buyer must ask the supplier for it.\"}]},{\"id\":\"data-acquisition\",\"q\":\"How do large buyers actually acquire Category 1 data?\",\"h\":\"Questionnaires, platforms and a widening data gate\",\"p\":[\"Buyers acquire supplier carbon data through a stack of mechanisms: supplier codes and principles that set expectations, procurement questionnaires and platforms such as CDP Supply Chain and EcoVadis, and, for the largest emitters, direct decarbonisation roadmaps. Shell, for example, uses its Supplier Principles and supply-chain engagement to ask suppliers for primary carbon data, set ambitions and share performance, and had signed non-binding memoranda with several of its largest supply-chain emitters.\",\"The data gate is still opening. CDP has found that only about 13 percent of businesses include climate-related requirements in supplier contracts and fewer than 6 percent require suppliers to disclose climate data, so the practice is far from universal. But it is tightening fast, and it works: suppliers were 52 percent more likely to cut their emissions when buyers offered financial incentives rather than training alone. For a vendor, the signal is simple: the questionnaires are getting harder, and being ready is becoming a differentiator.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"Codes and questionnaires\",\"d\":\"Supplier principles, CDP Supply Chain and EcoVadis are the standard channels for requesting carbon data.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"A 26x multiplier\",\"d\":\"CDP finds supply-chain emissions average about 26 times a company's operational emissions, so buyers must engage suppliers.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"Still early, moving fast\",\"d\":\"Only about 13 percent of firms put climate terms in contracts today, but incentives make supplier reductions 52 percent more likely.\"}]},{\"id\":\"commercial\",\"q\":\"Why has Category 1 become a commercial qualification gate?\",\"h\":\"Carbon data is turning into B2B currency\",\"p\":[\"Regulation is hardening the ask. Under the EU's CSRD and the ESRS E1 climate standard, in-scope companies must disclose how much of their Scope 3 is based on primary versus secondary data, which pushes buyers to collect real supplier figures rather than estimates. Science-based targets add to it: a company with an approved SBTi target for Scope 3 typically commits to a share of suppliers setting their own targets, turning a buyer's climate goal into a procurement requirement.\",\"The result is that supplier carbon data has quietly become a commercial qualification, not a compliance footnote. When a major scores and shortlists vendors, a credible, primary Scope 3 number increasingly sits alongside price, quality and delivery as a gating criterion. Suppliers who can answer the carbon question keep their place on the tender list; those who cannot are the easiest line to cut. Carbon data, in effect, is becoming a form of B2B currency.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"CSRD and ESRS E1\",\"d\":\"In-scope companies must report the primary-versus-secondary split of Scope 3, pushing buyers to collect real data.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"Science-based targets\",\"d\":\"Approved SBTi Scope 3 targets usually require a share of suppliers to set their own targets.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"A gating criterion\",\"d\":\"Credible supplier carbon data now sits alongside price, quality and delivery on the tender scorecard.\"}]},{\"id\":\"what-to-do\",\"q\":\"What should a supplier do about Category 1?\",\"h\":\"Turn the carbon question into a commercial asset\",\"p\":[\"The defensive move is to be ready: produce a defensible Scope 1 and 2 number, start on your own Category 1, and be able to complete a CDP or EcoVadis questionnaire without scrambling. The methods matter less than having a credible, documented figure and a direction of travel; buyers are looking for competence and momentum, not perfection.\",\"The offensive move is to make it a selling point. A supplier that can hand a buyer clean primary data, a reduction trajectory and a clear story removes friction from the buyer's own reporting and makes itself the low-risk choice. That is the Project 54 view: for energy and industrial vendors, carbon data is no longer a cost of compliance but a piece of commercial positioning, and the suppliers who treat it that way win the contracts that data-blind competitors lose.\"],\"pillars\":[{\"n\":\"01\",\"t\":\"Get a defensible number\",\"d\":\"A documented Scope 1 and 2 figure and a start on Category 1 beats a perfect but late one.\"},{\"n\":\"02\",\"t\":\"Answer the questionnaire\",\"d\":\"Be able to complete CDP or EcoVadis on request; readiness itself is a differentiator.\"},{\"n\":\"03\",\"t\":\"Make it a sales asset\",\"d\":\"Clean primary data and a reduction story make you the low-risk vendor on the shortlist.\"}]}],\"media\":{\"image\":{\"src\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cargo-ship-port-terminal.jpg\",\"label\":\"Category 1 sits in the supply chain, so the buyer can only reach it through procurement.\",\"credit\":\"Project 54\"},\"infographicLabel\":\"Scope 3 Category 1, purchased goods and services, is usually the largest Scope 3 slice; for Shell it was about 119 Mt CO2e in 2024, and supply-chain emissions average about 26x operational emissions.\",\"pdf\":{\"href\":\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scope-3-category-1-suppliers.pdf\",\"title\":\"Scope 3 Category 1 and the Supplier Data Gate, Slide Deck\",\"meta\":\"PDF - briefing deck\"},\"video\":null,\"podcast\":null},\"poll\":{\"q\":\"Where does your business sit on supplier carbon data today?\",\"options\":[{\"id\":\"a\",\"label\":\"Buyers are already asking us for Scope 3 or carbon data\",\"insight\":\"You are inside the gate. 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Both are upstream, but they are reported separately.\"},{\"q\":\"Do suppliers have to report their own Scope 3?\",\"a\":\"Not by default, but they are increasingly asked to provide primary emissions data so their buyer can calculate Category 1 accurately. See how that plays out in <a href=\\\"\/shell-scope-3-sustainable-procurement-suppliers\/\\\">Shell's Scope 3 and sustainable procurement<\/a> and what a <a href=\\\"\/what-is-a-sustainable-procurement-application\/\\\">sustainable procurement application<\/a> actually asks for.\"},{\"q\":\"What is the difference between spend-based and supplier-specific data?\",\"a\":\"Spend-based methods estimate emissions from how much money is spent, using industry averages, and need no supplier input. Supplier-specific methods use primary data from the supplier itself, and are more accurate. 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