𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 4 𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧? (𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒆 4 𝑮𝑯𝑮 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒄𝒐𝒍 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒖𝒏𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍)

This is a new term created by the World Resources Institute, to account for:
1) avoided emissions.
2) post-sale emissions.
3) organizations referring to their own individually refined methodologies of GHG emissions calculations beyond those of official 3 scopes.

𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘏𝘎 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭
1) Scope 1 emissions are the emissions that come straight from the source of industrialization productions or vehicles emissions (direct) within company.

2)Scope 2 emissions refer to any emissions created through energy consumption.

3) Scope 3 emissions or the value chain emissions (pre-sales emission) are the rest of emissions that are produced excluding scope 1 and scope 2. May also refer to the emissions that happened outside of the companies.

Credit to Lawrence Lum for doing the research.