Renewable electricity was the easy part. What's next for Scope 2 emissions?
As organisations approach near zero market based Scope 2 emissions, the challenge is no longer switching to renewable electricity, it is finding new ways to reduce consumption and drive further progress, says Team Energy.
For much of the past decade, Scope 2 emissions have been the success story of corporate decarbonisation.
Businesses switched to renewable electricity contracts, signed power purchase agreements and purchased renewable energy certificates. Combined with grid decarbonisation and energy efficiency improvements, these actions helped many organisations cut reported emissions at a pace that would have been difficult elsewhere in their carbon footprint.
