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Short answers on Scope 3, store energy, refrigeration and carbon rules in retail. To see them worked out with your own chain’s data, book a demo.
Carbonova connects store and distribution centre energy, refrigeration service records, fleet and transport data and merchandise purchases from the ERP to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents. CarbonOS calculates emissions per store, channel and SKU, flags stores with unusual energy use or refrigerant top-ups and ranks measures by cost and CO₂ avoided, while the supply chain agent works on Scope 3 with suppliers.
Most of them sit outside the stores, in the goods bought from suppliers and in transport, which make up Scope 3. On average, the supply chain emissions of companies reporting to CDP are 26 times their emissions from direct operations (CDP, 2024). In stores and distribution centres, the main sources are electricity for refrigeration, air conditioning and lighting, in Scope 2, and refrigerant leaks, in Scope 1.
Under the CSRD as amended by Omnibus I, companies with more than 1,000 employees and more than €450 million turnover report from financial year 2027 under the revised ESRS, and from then they cannot require more from value-chain companies with up to 1,000 employees than the voluntary standard provides. Retailers placing cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy or wood products on the EU market also fall under the Deforestation Regulation from 30 December 2026 if large or medium-sized.
The Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive (EU) 2024/825, which applies from 27 September 2026, bans claims that a product is neutral or has a reduced impact in greenhouse gas terms on the basis of offsetting, and generic claims such as climate friendly unless the trader can show recognised excellent environmental performance. In coordinated cross-border enforcement, maximum fines must reach at least 4% of annual turnover in the Member States concerned (Directive (EU) 2019/2161). Carbonova ties every claim to source data and versioned emission factors.
The supply chain agent collects emissions data from suppliers and rates them with risk scorecards, so procurement and sustainability teams can focus on the categories that weigh most. Only four in ten companies engage their suppliers on climate issues (CDP, 2024), and that is where a retailer’s biggest lever sits. The lineage of every figure shows whether it comes from the supplier’s own data or from an average factor, which tells the team where to ask for primary data.
CarbonOS reads ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, invoices, energy meters and IoT data from stores and the cold chain, plus TMS and WMS data from logistics, then normalises and versions everything. Each value keeps its lineage back to the source invoice or meter, a versioned emission factor and a change history, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard, which supports both disclosures and environmental claims.
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