Navigating Scope 3 Emissions: A Challenge for Bulk Commodities
Discover why Scope 3 emissions matter and how addressing them can drive innovation, reduce risks, and position your company as a sustainability leader.
SCIAR Systems, in partnership with EarthCheck, provides a real-time, integrated emissions-reporting platform that delivers independently verified Scope 3 emissions for coal producers and their supply-chain partners.
It connects operational data from mines, rail, ports and shipping, applies best‑Practise emissions models, and produces a traceable, audit-ready record for every tonne.
Regulators are moving away from static, annual estimates toward disclosures that can be tested and assured.
Real-time emissions data ensures your reports reflect actual operations, provide clear audit trails, and meet emerging standards, such as AASB S2, which require timely, verifiable evidence rather than backward-looking averages.
Most current approaches rely on generic emission factors and manual spreadsheet consolidation.
SCIAR instead uses integrated supply chain data, automated data flows, and EarthCheck’s independent verification to produce shipment-level, externally accredited Scope 3 results that withstand scrutiny from auditors, investors, and customers.
SCIAR provides the digital backbone: capturing, standardising, and managing the logistics and production data needed to accurately calculate emissions across the mine‑to‑customer chain.
It ensures the right data is available, consistent and traceable, so EarthCheck can apply its models and assurance frameworks with confidence.
EarthCheck contributes to the sustainability science and assurance.
It provides emissions models, methodologies, and certification frameworks aligned with global standards, and independently verifies outputs generated from SCIAR’s data, enabling you to present recognised, third-party assured Scope 3 results.
Large and medium-sized companies and financial institutions in Australia are being phased into mandatory climate reporting under changes to the Corporations Act 2001, with Scope 3 disclosures and assurance requirements ramping up over the coming years.
Real-time emissions data turns reporting into a management tool.
It helps you identify where emissions are generated, link them to specific assets and activities, and prioritise actions that deliver measurable reductions, operational efficiencies and commercial differentiation.
The chain-of-custody feature records how each tonne moves through your supply chain, capturing source, handling, transport, and delivery events in a single, traceable record.
This is essential to demonstrate that emissions calculations are based on actual flows, to support certification schemes, and to protect against challenges to your sustainability claims.
Non-compliance or weak disclosures can lead to regulatory penalties, increased assurance costs, restrictions on market access and damage to your reputation with investors and customers.
The initial focus is coal, where Scope 3 pressures are most acute and supply chains are highly complex. However, the same data‑first, chain‑of‑custody approach can be adapted to other bulk commodities and heavy industries that need reliable, shipment-level emissions data for compliance and commercial reasons.
