Carbon emissions reporting

Carbon & Sustainability

Leverage our Carbon emissions reporting to drive Scope 3 emission transparency on your net-zero journey

Now is the time for procurement to act. Shareholders, investors, and executives are requesting detailed information about CO2 footprint, and it has become mandatory to provide emission information as part of annual reporting directives such as CSRD, in many RfQs and during supplier onboardings.

Through our carbon emissions reporting software, we can help you turn your daily spend reporting into a knowledge base for sustainability. We support you in analyzing and optimizing your emission baseline, boosting your impact beyond savings by enriching your reporting with sustainability analytics data.

How we support you

Transparency on procurement-induced emissions as basis for reporting, target commitment, and path towards decarbonization

Create full carbon transparency

Granular emissions baselining at category-, product- or invoice-level for annual reporting within weeks instead of months.

Leverage best-in-class reports

Proven, customizable, and multidimensional report and navigation functionalities and leverage readily available data.

Refresh at any time

Connect to multiple source systems and refresh data for up-to-date insights.

Continuous emission monitoring

Detailed visibility over time, allowing cuts by business units, geographies, or suppliers.

Our Capabilities

Rapid spend-based carbon emissions reporting, analytics and transparency for entire procurement-related emissions allows you to identify high-emission categories for refinement on consumption level or supplier level to embark on a holistic decarbonization journey.

Rapid spend-based carbon analytics and transparency for entire procurement-related emissions

Overview of high-emission categories

Refinement on consumption level or supplier level

Embark on the decarbonization journey with McKinsey’s Catalyst Zero offering

Benefits of Partnering with us

Our solution combines the benefits of a procurement analytics suite (Spendscape) and end-to-end sustainability solution (Catalyst Zero) to make Scope 3 emissions baselining simple, repeatable, and automated for mandatory emissions reporting.

Our proprietary emission factors provide insight on material-specific emission drivers, for example furnace use in steel production allowing clients to quantify their decarbonization potential and cost to meet sustainability targets.

Case study

How Lufthansa is using data to reduce costs and improve spend and carbon transparency

Partnering with SAP, the airline developed a clear view of their data, integrating multiple sources from across their global business network. McKinsey’s Spendscape then provided a full understanding of procurement spend—and insights into Scope 3 emissions.

Digital carbon emissions accounting journey

We helped a major energy utility company produce a Scope 3 emissions reduction strategy through 2030 by helping them gain transparency into their estimated emissions baseline, allowing them to optimize their decarbonization strategy by balancing impact and cost of abatement.

Energy & Materials

We developed a Scope 3 emissions baseline and decarbonization strategy for an electric utility player. We identified their key materials driving emissions and validated reduction targets.

Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure

Developing a granular emissions baseline for a client in the airline industry, we were able to generate an emissions breakdown related to commercial aircraft purchases, highlighting key emission drivers.

Consumer Goods

We supported a client in the consumer food industry to develop a granular Scope 3 emissions baseline to set Science-Based Targets (SBTs) compliant with SBTi’s Land Sector Guidance.

Automotive & Assembly

Conducted a proof-of-concept for an automotive supplier to improve the granularity of their emissions baseline from spend-based to more granular consumption-based, with region-specific emission factors.

Expertise, technology, and capabilities

Report

How the European Union could achieve net-zero emissions at net-zero cost

December 3, 2020 -

The decarbonization pathways to a net-zero Europe are countless, but not all are cost optimal. We explore one pathway that could reduce the EU’s emissions 55 percent by 2030 while delivering broad economic benefits.