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Where CDP Puts Transport

The largest slice of a logistics company's Scope 3, and the two names swapped in that section's summary table

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What this document is

CDP is not a standard but a questionnaire and a scoring system, so which categories it treats as relevant decides what companies calculate. Its technical note on Scope 3 relevance by sector draws that map for 16 high-impact sectors. Upstream transportation is the largest slice of the transport services sector’s Scope 3 at 32%, while business travel and commuting average 0.10% and 0.20%. This report sets out the map and notes two category names swapped in that section’s own summary table.

Who reads it

  • Shipper ESG and disclosure
  • Carriers and logistics providers
  • Carbon consultancies
  • Investor relations

What's inside

Each stage is broken into the work it takes, and every task carries a checklist you can lift as it stands.

  1. 01What CDP says about itself

    • Qualitative relevance criteria lead companies to measure what is easy to calculate
    • Business travel and commuting average 0.10% and 0.20% of total Scope 3
    • The map is drawn from a literature review and 2021 CDP response data

  2. 02The transport services sector

    • Category 4 upstream transport — 32% of the sector Scope 3, 10% of Scope 1+2+3
    • Category 3 fuel and energy — 24%, calculated by just over half of respondents
    • Category 1 purchased goods — 18%, calculated by fewer than half

  3. 03Read the body, not the summary

    • That section’s summary table swaps the names of categories 3 and 4
    • Fifteen other sections write them correctly — the body text on the same page does too
    • A transport category is listed as relevant in 8 of the 16 high-impact sectors

About this report

Not a translation. We read the primary sources ourselves and set out what they say. Quotations are short and carry their source and page number, and no figure appears that we could not confirm in the original.

Rights in the sources
Rights in the original rest with CDP Worldwide.
Basis
This report is Logistics Tech Standard's analysis of a technical note published by CDP. It is not a translation.
What is not here
What effect a misdeclared relevance has on scoring is not in this note and is not described here. Individual shares for the chemicals, electric utilities, construction and real estate sectors are absent because the document gives none. The analysis is based on 2021 responses.
How we quote
Quotations are short and carry the printed page number. The observation about the summary table was made by rendering the page as an image and looking at it, not from extracted text alone.

Who wrote this report, and why

Logistics Tech Standard (LTS) works on the carbon standards used in freight. This is not a translation — we researched and wrote it. Putting an international standard to work on real freight runs into places the standard itself does not describe.

Only what we could confirm is here; where we could not confirm something, we say so. Every source is named in the text.

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