The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) Corporate Standard revision currently underway includes two proposed changes that are getting attention from sustainability practitioners:
Reporting individual greenhouse gases (e.g. not just aggregated CO2e) for Scope 3 emissions. And breaking Scope 1 down by emissions and operations type (e.g. stationary, mobile, fugitive, process, etc.).
These are sound proposals. Aggregated CO2e figures are useful for headline reporting, but they can obscure the actual composition of a company's footprint.
Also, disaggregating Scope 1 by category-types turns a single number into a mitigations (decarbonization) map.
ClimateTab (A Three Pillars Consulting Product) was built with exactly this level of detail in mind.
For Scope 3, where emissions factor data supports it, including full Ecoinvent-backed datasets, ClimateTab already breaks out the primary GHG gases alongside the aggregated CO2e figure. Users aren't waiting for a standard to require this; it's available now.
On the Scope 1 side, ClimateTab automatically categorises emissions by type based on the emissions factors mapped to each inventory flow, so the stationary/mobile/fugitive/process split is visible by default, without any manual configuration.
When these changes move from proposed to required, ClimateTab users will already be there.
If you're evaluating carbon accounting software with an eye on where standards are heading, we'd be glad to walk you through the platform.
