How an Egyptian organisation measures Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions to a verification-ready standard — and what regulators and investors now expect to see.
Every tonne of CO₂ equivalent your organisation is accountable for falls into one of three scopes. Most first-time reporters cover Scope 1 and 2, then phase Scope 3 in.
Emissions from sources you own or control — company vehicles, on-site fuel combustion, generators, refrigerant leakage.
Indirect emissions from the electricity, steam, heating and cooling your organisation buys and consumes.
Everything else across your upstream and downstream value chain. Usually the largest share of the footprint and the hardest to source data for.
A defensible inventory is built in sequence. Skipping the boundary step is the single most common reason a footprint fails verification.
Decide organisational boundary (equity share, financial or operational control) and which facilities and entities are inside it. Set the base year.
Gather fuel invoices, electricity bills, travel records, refrigerant logs and procurement data for the full reporting period.
Convert each activity into tCO₂e using recognised factors, using Egypt grid factors for Scope 2 where available.
Check completeness, test for double counting, document every assumption and estimation method, and log data gaps.
Produce a verification-ready inventory, disclose it, and set a reduction pathway with interim targets.
Four failure modes we see repeatedly on first-time inventories.
The inventory covers whichever sites had data available. Verification fails immediately because scope cannot be reproduced.
For most service and financial businesses Scope 3 is the majority of the footprint. Omitting it without stating why undermines the whole disclosure.
Estimated figures presented as measured. Every estimate needs its method and uncertainty recorded.
After an acquisition or disposal the base year must be restated. Without a policy the trend line becomes meaningless.
Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner and closes with documented, regulator-ready evidence of what was built.