Your Scope 3 number is only as good as your supplier data, and your suppliers aren't going to make it easy. Less Carbon runs a managed outreach, assessment and certification program across your supply chain, and hands back real, accurate supplier data at scale, in a standardised form, so it isn't more work than it already is for your team. As many as you need, scheduled if required.
Scope 3 isn't a disclosure exercise. It's a supply-chain problem that lands in your numbers, your audit and your investor scrutiny. And you don't have two years to re-engineer who you buy from before the next deadline.
Scope 3 sits across your entire supplier base. You can't disclose your way around a data gap, and rebuilding a supply chain to dodge it takes years you don't have before reporting falls due.
Suppliers who can't produce data stall procurement, delay tenders and force last-minute replacements. The cost of a disrupted supply chain dwarfs the cost of getting those suppliers assessed and certified.
Inconsistent supplier responses raise the questions an auditor will: where did the number come from, how was it calculated, how long did it take, and will it hold up? Unverified data is a liability on your disclosure.
Most suppliers aren't ready, don't understand what's being asked, or believe it doesn't apply to them because they don't report directly to government. That gap lands on your desk.
Spreadsheets, portals, ad hoc emails, every supplier responds differently. Your team ends up interpreting, massaging and re-keying thousands of completely different responses before the data is usable.
Supplier data collection is a program, not an email blast. Follow-ups, missing documents, education, escalation. Done internally, it swallows procurement and sustainability capacity for months.
Cutting long-standing suppliers because they can't produce emissions data is expensive and disruptive. Getting them assessed and certified protects the relationship and your reporting timeline.
You hand over a supplier list. We run the program. Your systems receive reports in one consistent format, no interpretation required.
We invite, onboard and follow up your suppliers in scheduled batches, under your brand, ours, or co-branded. Automated reminders and missing-information requests, so your team only handles exceptions.
Each supplier receives a Scope 1 + 2 Carbon Assessment and a certified Supplier Emissions Certificate with a unique reference number, AASB S2 compliant, built on government and industry standards.
Every report arrives in the same structure: same methodology, same fields, same format. Massive on accuracy, time saving and cost saving, and a competitive advantage when your reporting holds up and your competitors' doesn't.
Progress visibility across every batch: suppliers invited, onboarded, certified, outstanding. Each phase closes with a delivery pack, certificates, emissions summary, exceptions list and recommended next steps.
Everything runs online. The scoping form asks the structured questions a consultant would, then the program does the rest.
The online scoping form captures your reporting group, supplier base, priority categories and rollout timing. The system triages your program structure automatically.
A structured proposal: recommended batch size, process, timeline and locked per-supplier pricing. Pilot, staged rollout or full program, your call.
You provide the supplier list and contacts. We onboard suppliers in scheduled batches, run every assessment and chase every gap. Your team sees progress, not problems.
Certificates, emissions summary, completion report and exceptions list, in one standardised format your reporting and procurement systems can use immediately.
Programs are priced per supplier and scoped to your list. Bulk programs of 50+ suppliers receive a 20% discount. Locked in your proposal before anything starts.
The scoping form recommends a structure, you choose the pace.
A first wave across your priority suppliers. Proves the process, surfaces data issues early and gives your team a delivery pack to socialise internally. Live within 30 days.
Your supplier base assessed in scheduled batches, sequenced by category, risk or procurement priority, aligned to your reporting calendar.
Broad supply-chain coverage across multiple categories or business units, with ongoing batches, renewals and program reporting as standard.
AASB S2 mandatory climate reporting rolls out in three groups. Whichever group you're in, your Scope 3 number needs supplier data to stand up.
Capture test: an entity is captured when it meets at least two of the three thresholds for its group. Government bodies, councils, procurement groups, major contractors and infrastructure projects are driving the same supplier data requests through their own frameworks.
If yours isn't here, the methodology page goes deeper.
Managed supplier outreach, intake and data collection, a Carbon Assessment and Supplier Emissions Certificate for every supplier, automated follow-up on missing information, and structured progress reporting back to you.
A structured delivery pack: completed supplier certificates, a supplier emissions summary, batch completion report, supplier status report, unresolved supplier list, data quality notes and recommended next steps.
Every supplier is assessed on the same methodology and reported in the same format. No interpreting, massaging or re-keying thousands of different spreadsheets into your systems.
A pilot wave can be live within 30 days of scoping. Full programs are scheduled to your reporting calendar and rolled out in batches.
Per supplier, scoped to your supplier list, batch size and the level of outreach you want managed. Bulk programs of 50+ suppliers receive a 20% discount. Your proposal includes locked pricing before anything starts.
No. Suppliers in your program are covered by the program. They complete a short online intake, upload their records and receive their own Carbon Assessment and Supplier Emissions Certificate.
Lower cost than building it internally, faster than educating every supplier one by one, and far less disruptive than replacing the ones who aren't ready. Scope your program and have a pilot wave live in 30 days.
Ten minutes on the scoping form. No meetings, no consultants, no pain.