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On measuring and reporting transport emissions, as the work is actually done
What the international standards ask for, and what those asks turn into on a tender document and in a contract. The reports these articles argue from are in the library.
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- 10 August 2026
Transport may be counted across categories 4 and 9 together
The 5% threshold is judged irrespective of category. Transport emissions split across upstream and downstream may miss it separately and clear it combined.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
"You may not assume it is absent"
There is a sentence in the standard under which "our transport emissions are probably not large" does not hold. To say it is not there, you have to measure and then say so.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
The standard names transport as an activity in its own right
The emissions-intensive activity list in SBTi's Net-Zero Standard V2.0 splits into three groups, and one of them is transport. Five activities carry NACE codes and an emissions boundary.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
A logistics company's biggest slice of Scope 3 is upstream transport
By CDP's technical note, 32% of Scope 3 in the transportation services sector is category 4, upstream transportation and distribution. That is also 10% of total Scope 1+2+3.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
CDP is a questionnaire, not a standard
A standard sets how to calculate. A questionnaire sets what has to be answered. Which categories CDP treats as relevant therefore decides what companies calculate.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Transport is flagged as relevant in 8 of 16 high-impact sectors
Cement, chemicals, construction, electric utilities, food and beverage, paper and forestry, real estate, transportation services. The size differs by sector, and CDP says so itself.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
The category labels are swapped in that summary table
Read only the summary table and a logistics company will have the wrong name for the largest category in its own sector. The body text corrects it.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Carry on reporting exactly as you are
The first question a standards merger raises in practice. The partnership FAQ answers it — the existing standards remain valid until the new one is published.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
GHG Protocol and ISO are building one standard
Announced 29 July 2026. GHG Protocol's Scope 1, 2, 3 and market instrument standards are being brought together with ISO 14064-1 into a single co-branded corporate standard. Public consultation is set for Q2 2027.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Two standards have started using the same word
SBTi's standard calls the certificate category a "commodity certificate" and has it written apart from the physical inventory. The GHG Protocol proposal uses the same word and puts it in the same place.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Emissions get reported in three separate statements
There is one sentence in the announcement that anyone working on transport and certificates should read now. The proposal has physical emissions, emissions tied to market instruments, and the impact of actions and investments each reported separately.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Germany counts a reduction rate, not a volume
Germany's obligation is to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of fuel by a percentage. It is not an obligation to blend a set amount of something, so any route that cuts emissions meets in the same ledger.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
The same word "obligation" requires different things in different countries
The UK counts volume, Germany counts a reduction rate, Korea counts the blending ratio of one pair. Same word, different requirements — and the difference decides the certificate price.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
The UK counts volume, and that certificate trades
The UK's RTFO already has a tradable certificate. The buy-out price caps its value, and the producer takes that revenue first — which is exactly how much less a voluntary certificate has to add.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
A sixth question, before you ask the price
Report 2 set out five. After opening the schemes themselves, one more attaches — is this reduction inside what a domestic mandate counts, or outside it?Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Korea's blending mandate counts one pair
Korea's RFS covers automotive diesel and biodiesel. The obligation is expressed as a volume ratio, and the 2024–2026 ratio is 4.0%. What transport insetting deals with mostly sits outside that pair.Comes with a document4 min read - 10 August 2026
"Is it certified?" asks four different bodies at once
There is a reason this question slides off a certificate review. Being certified is not one stamp; it is four layers each standing in its own place.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
Verification is not an audit of a certificate already issued
The same third-party verification becomes a precondition when it sits before issuance and an after-the-fact audit when it sits behind it. In June 2026 one insetting platform put the order in writing.Comes with a document3 min read - 10 August 2026
The list of verifier names is shorter than you would expect
Put the published insetting programmes side by side and the verifier names overlap. Separate programmes, built by different operators, using the same body.Comes with a document3 min read
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