Scope 1, 2 and 3

Three scopes, three different instruments, one rule. Nothing is applied to a claim it was never eligible for. Here is what each scope is, and what Triangle does for it.

Port, vessels and logistics assets
Scope 1
Scope 1

Direct emissions from what you own or control

Combustion in your facilities, fleets and processes. It is the scope you can measure most directly and the one that only reduction or verified removal can address; no certificate makes a furnace emit less.

Triangle twins the assets themselves, so Scope 1 is measured from operating data rather than estimated, and covers the residual, what cannot be reduced yet, with verified removal and reduction credits issued as regulated instruments and retired with an evidence record.

What Triangle does for it
  • A digital twin per facility, fleet or process, fed by meters and operating records
  • Verified removal and reduction credits for the residual, never energy certificates
  • Retirement typed, serialized and evidenced per claim
  • Reporting that lines up with GHG Protocol Scope 1 and the disclosure regimes that cite it
Scope 2

Indirect emissions from purchased energy

Electricity, steam, heat and cooling you buy. Under the market-based method only an energy attribute certificate, a REC or its equivalent, moves the number. An offset does not, however good the project.

Triangle mints RECs and other energy attribute certificates as regulated instruments, twins the generation behind them, and keeps them in their own lane. The router will not apply a carbon credit to a Scope 2 figure, and will not apply an EAC to anything else.

What Triangle does for it
  • RECs and EACs issued as regulated instruments with the generation data attached
  • Market-based Scope 2 covered with the eligible certificate for the market
  • Generation, storage and efficiency assets twinned for continuous proof
  • Scope routing enforced: certificates for Scope 2, credits for Scope 1 and 3

This is the scope where the wrong instrument does the most damage. Standards on the Platform page carry the full routing rule.

Utility-scale solar generation
Scope 2
Connected network of value-chain stakeholders
Scope 3
Scope 3

Everything upstream and downstream of you

Suppliers, logistics, tenants, customers, financed assets, commuting. Scope 3 is most of most footprints and almost none of the data is yours. It is a data-routing problem before it is a carbon problem.

Triangle's Constellation links data up and downstream using a digital ID for every stakeholder. Each ID carries nested attributes for Scopes 1 to 3; categories aggregate upward; permissions decide who sees what and how often, annually, monthly or in real time depending on the counterparty. The result is a Scope 3 figure assembled from records, not from questionnaires reconciled by hand.

What Triangle does for it
  • A digital ID per stakeholder, upstream and downstream
  • Nested Scope 1 to 3 attributes, aggregated by category to your figure
  • Permissioned routing on the cadence each counterparty can support
  • Residual covered with verified removal and reduction, evidenced per retirement
  • Industry maps for banks, real estate, manufacturing, shipping and the rest

Each industry page carries its own upstream and downstream map. Start from Banks, Real estate or Manufacturing.

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