Scope 3 dashboard
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Summary of Scope 3 dashboard
The Scope 3 dashboard in ServiceNow enables organizations to calculate and track scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, providing a comprehensive view of their indirect environmental impacts within the value chain, such as emissions from procurement. Integrated with the ESG Workspace, this dashboard is essential for ESG program managers and administrators to monitor emission trends and ensure compliance with evolving environmental regulations.
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To use the dashboard, the Scope 3 emissions management plugin (snesgscope3) must be activated. Data collection begins only after plugin activation and configuration of categories and models tables. Historical data can be imported if required. The dashboard includes 10 metric definitions that must be activated to collect relevant data.
Key Features
- Emission Categories: The dashboard focuses on two of the 15 possible Scope 3 GHG categories:
- Category 1 – Purchased goods and services (emissions from extraction, production, transportation of purchased items in the reporting year)
- Category 2 – Capital goods (emissions from physical assets like buildings and machinery used in production)
- Data Dimensions: Emissions data is presented by GHG category, spend category, and supplier category to provide detailed insights.
- Spend Category Data: Uses spend-based emission factors to estimate emissions related to different expenditure types by multiplying spend amounts by emission factors (e.g., EEIO values).
- Supplier Category Data: Enables categorization of suppliers (e.g., laptop or monitor suppliers) and calculates emissions using:
- Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) data integrating environmental and economic models
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data covering environmental impacts throughout a product’s lifecycle
- GHG Category Data: Reflects indirect emissions from purchased goods and capital goods using EEIO, LCA, and supplier methodologies.
- Reporting: The dashboard provides various reports that allow drilling down into metric definitions and data sources for detailed analysis.
Practical Use and Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
By leveraging the Scope 3 dashboard, organizations can:
- Gain a complete understanding of indirect emissions in their value chain to support sustainability goals.
- Identify high-emission spend and supplier categories to target emission reduction efforts effectively.
- Ensure compliance with environmental regulations through accurate tracking and reporting of scope 3 emissions.
- Integrate emission data into broader ESG initiatives within the ServiceNow ESG Workspace for streamlined management.
Activation and proper configuration are crucial to start data collection, and importing historical data is necessary to view trends over time. The dashboard’s detailed categorization and calculation methodologies enable precise and actionable insights into scope 3 emissions.
The Scope 3 dashboard helps you to calculate and track scope 3 emissions to gain a complete understanding of your organization's environmental impact and ensure compliance with evolving regulations. Scope 3 emissions refer to indirect emissions in your value chain, for example, the emissions generated from procurement of equipment.
You can access the Scope 3 dashboard by selecting the 
icon on the ESG Workspace.
- Category 1 Purchased goods and services: This category refers to the extraction, production, and transportation of goods and services purchased or acquired by the reporting company in the reporting year.
- Category 2 Capital goods: This category refers to the extraction, production, and transportation of capital goods purchased or acquired by the reporting company in the reporting year. Capital goods are physical assets like buildings, machinery, and equipment that are used to produce consumer goods or services.
The dashboard displays the scope 3 data for GHG category, spend category, and supplier category. The following sections explain these categories. Understanding these types of data helps you to understand the data that is displayed on the Scope 3 dashboard.
Spend category data
Spend-based emission factors assign typical levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to different spending categories. For instance, the emissions generated from spending $1 on office equipment may differ from those generated from spending $1 on transportation services. By multiplying the amount spent in each category by the relevant emission factor, you can estimate your indirect emissions. For example, if you categorize all your laptops as assets spend category, you can aggregate the expenditure on all those assets and then multiply the figure by the emission factor value provided by the Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO).
Supplier category data
- Environmentally extended input-output (EEIO) data: EEIO data integrates environmental data with economic input-output models to assess the environmental impacts associated with economic activities. This type of data is crucial for understanding how economic activities contribute to environmental pressures and can be used to evaluate the environmental impacts of different sectors and products throughout their supply chains. This data can either be entered manually in the ServiceNow instance or can be uploaded in bulk if the data is available in a spreadsheet. EEIO data is derived from the emission tables that are filled by activating from the ESG content accelerator application.
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) data: LCA data is used for evaluating the environmental impacts associated with all stages of a product's life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. LCA data is crucial for conducting these assessments and includes detailed information about the environmental impacts of materials, processes, energy use, and waste management throughout the product life cycle.
- Supplier category data: Each organization has several suppliers for a variety of goods and services. Some examples of suppliers are laptop suppliers, monitor suppliers, desktop suppliers, and so on. You can categorize each of the suppliers into different categories. The scope 3 dashboard displays the emissions generated by these suppliers using the metric definitions that are provided by default. This information helps you to identify the scope for reduction of emissions. This data can either be entered manually in the ServiceNow instance or can be uploaded in bulk if the data is available in a spreadsheet.
GHG category
Emissions from purchased goods and services, classified under Scope 3 category 1 of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and capital goods classified under category 2, refer to the indirect emissions generated from a company's procurement of goods and services. The GHG category also uses the EEIO, LCA, and supplier calculation methodologies.