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Understanding legislation relating to carbon emissions and sustainability can be a complex and challenging task for some organisations depending on their size, turnover and location. With 2025 marking the year when climate reporting becomes mandatory, it’s crucial to break down what this means and provide clarity for businesses navigating these changes.
The key task first of all is to understand and be able to report your Scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon emissions. Without this you can’t report anything!
Scope 1 emissions relate to emissions associated with something you own, like a boiler or company vehicles burning fossil fuels
Scope 2 emissions for the bulk of organisations relate to purchased electricity, but for some industries can include heating or cooling that is purchased.
Scope 3 is everything else which also includes Transport and Logistics emissions - the focus of Greener Routes, CCLs carbon emissions tracking solution.
The main regulatory methods for CCL customers reporting on sustainability and carbon emissions are: -
The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) / Task Force on TCFD and SECR in the UK
These both apply only if your organisation meets 2 out of these 3 criteria: -
- 250+ employees
- £36M+ annual turnover
- £18M+ balance sheet
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CRSD) all large EU-based private organisations that have two or more of the following criteria: -
- 250+ employees
- €50M+
- €25M+ balance sheet.
If you are not based in the EU but have: -
€150M+ in annual EU revenues, with at least one branch or subsidiary where the branch has €40M+ in annual EU revenues or the subsidiary is either EU-listed or meets the large criteria above then they will need to report under CSRD.
You may also be required to report your emissions to EU organisations based on what you trade with them.
There are also some other pieces of legislation relating to banking and financial organisations requiring sustainability and emissions reporting along with a number of voluntary reporting standards like the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) for example.
Most of these require full reporting of Scope 1 and 2 emissions and depending on size Scope 3 as well.
With scope 3 emissions accounting for over 70% of an organisations footprint and the difficulties in obtaining information that can withstand regulatory oversight organisations must ensure that their calculations are correct.
With CCL you can rely on the Scope 3 transport and distribution calculations to withstand this test, our Greener Routes solution is accredited by the Smart Freight Centre and aligned to ISO14083 so you can be assured that this difficult to obtain set of emissions is one less thing to worry about