Scope 3 emissions are all indirect greenhouse gas emissions along a company's value chain — from the purchased product to transport. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol divides them into 15 categories, including purchased goods and services as well as upstream transportation and distribution. For most companies, Scope 3 represents the largest part of the total balance.
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Every purchased service brings its emissions with it. Manufactured promotional items fall under purchased goods, warehousing and dispatch under transportation and distribution. With the CSRD reporting obligation, procurement and sustainability departments are asking their service providers for solid emissions data — marketing logistics is part of the calculation, not a footnote.
PROWERB operates with a negative corporate CO₂ balance. For your Scope 3 calculation, the purchased service must be allocated separately using materials, quantities, transport data, reporting period and your accounting method. The corporate balance is not an automatic negative factor for a shipment. The 2025 sustainability report presents energy data; kWh alone do not calculate customer-specific emissions.
Scope 3 can only be read in context. These three terms delimit it and show where purchased promotional products logistics feeds into the balance.
Because Scope 3 counts all indirect emissions along the value chain: manufactured promotional items fall under purchased goods and services, warehousing and dispatch under transportation and distribution. Every purchased service brings its emissions with it.
For most companies, Scope 3 represents the largest part of the total balance. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol divides indirect emissions into 15 categories — marketing logistics is part of the calculation, not a footnote.
With the CSRD reporting obligation, procurement and sustainability departments ask their service providers for solid emissions data. The logistics partner's emissions become a line item in the company's own report — no longer a footnote.
PROWERB operates with a negative corporate CO₂ balance. For your Scope 3 calculation, the purchased service must be allocated separately using materials, quantities, transport data, reporting period and your accounting method. The corporate balance is not an automatic negative factor for a shipment. The 2025 sustainability report presents energy data; kWh alone do not calculate customer-specific emissions.
The non-binding Needs Check is completed in under 60 seconds: which services do you buy in, where do transport and warehousing emissions arise, what does the service provider take on? A dedicated contact then accompanies the clarification — no call center.
