Scope 3 Hotspot Screening
Posted on:
Jul 11, 2026
About The Service
Scope 3 is usually 70 to 90% of a company's carbon footprint, spread across 15 categories, most of which will not matter for you. Before you spend months chasing supplier data, find out which categories actually move your numbers. This is a fixed-price, spend-based screening of your Scope 3 emissions. I take your procurement or ledger spend, map it to emission factors, and deliver the KS Scope 3 Screening Memo: a ranked view of your material categories, the hotspots worth measuring properly, and the ones you can safely deprioritize. Screening-grade by design, so you can target your real inventory work where it counts. One flat price, one clear deliverable.
Other Information
Customer Challenge
Scope 3 is where most of your emissions live and where most companies waste the most effort. There are 15 categories, and teams routinely try to measure all of them at once, chasing supplier data for categories that will never be material while missing the two or three that dominate their footprint. CDP, CSRD, and the SBTi all expect Scope 3, but none of them are served by a scattershot effort. Without a screen first, you spend months and budget in the wrong places and still cannot say with confidence where your real hotspots are.
Service Solution
A fixed-price, spend-based screening of your Scope 3 emissions across the 15 categories, focused on the two that usually dominate (purchased goods and services, and upstream transportation). I map your procurement or ledger spend to recognized emission factors and deliver the KS Scope 3 Screening Memo: a ranked, defensible view of where your emissions concentrate. Spend-based screening is the fastest, weakest tier in the GHG Protocol hierarchy, and this deliverable says so plainly. Its job is to point your real measurement work at the categories that matter. One flat price, one clear deliverable.
Service Activities
What the memo includes: a category-by-category screen of your Scope 3 across all 15 GHG Protocol categories; a spend-to-emissions mapping using recognized EPA (or equivalent) factors, with every line traceable to its factor; a ranked hotspot list, the categories that dominate your footprint versus the ones you can deprioritize; a recommendation on where to invest in higher-quality, supplier-specific data next and where spend-based is good enough; and a plain statement of method and limitations, so the result is defensible to CDP, an auditor, or your SBTi submission. How it works: a free 15-minute fit check, then you share your procurement or ledger spend with an NDA signed first, then your memo within 10 business days.
Key Results
You know which of the 15 Scope 3 categories actually matter for your company, backed by numbers. You get a clear recommendation on where to spend your measurement effort and where not to. And you have a defensible, method-transparent screen you can hand to CDP, an auditor, or your SBTi process.
Customer Value
You stop wasting effort measuring Scope 3 categories that will never move your number. You target your real inventory and supplier-engagement work at the two or three hotspots that dominate, you get a result that holds up to scrutiny, and you get it from someone who does both spend-based and supplier-specific Scope 3 work across frameworks, at a fraction of a large firm's fee.
Industries covered by service
All industries
Industry Coverage Information
Built for any company that needs to understand its Scope 3 before committing to full measurement: companies preparing for CDP, CSRD, or an SBTi target, and suppliers being asked for value chain data. Most useful when you have procurement or ledger spend data but no clear view of where your emissions concentrate.
Delivery Model
Remote
Delivery Setup
Service delivered by single talent
Client responsibilities
Share your procurement or general-ledger spend data (a spend export by vendor or category is ideal), sign the NDA before sharing files, and name one point of contact. Messy spend data is welcome.
Delivery Region Scope
Worldwide
North America
Europe
Delivery Language
English
Service Outline
A fixed-price, spend-based screening of your Scope 3 emissions across all 15 categories, delivered as the KS Scope 3 Screening Memo within 10 business days: a ranked, method-transparent view of your hotspots so your real measurement work targets the categories that matter. Screening-grade by design.
Categories
SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES
Expertise
Carbon Accounting
Certification Processes
ESG Frameworks
ESG Reporting Frameworks
Relationship management
Stakeholder Engagement
Strategic Roadmap Planning
EU Taxonomy
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€4,988.00
The KS Scope 3 Screening Memo: a spend-based screen of your Scope 3 across all 15 categories. Includes a ranked hotspot list, a spend-to-emissions mapping with every line traceable to its factor, a recommendation on where to invest in better data next, and a plain statement of method and limitations. Delivered within 10 business days. One flat price, one clear deliverable.
Completion
:
14 Day
Total Revision :
1
What's Included
- Ranked hotspot list across all 15 categories
