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Should those ESG reporting requirements be adopted as is, publicly listed Canadian companies would be required to disclose all upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions, among other things. The company would then have to figure out and report on lifecycle emissions. That means suppliers, consumers, and disposal—from the place the iron ore was mined all the way to the buyer using that finished automobile, and on to the scrapyard where it ends up being recycled. These are “Scope 3 emissions.”Article content
For smaller businesses, though, this can be deadly, as they don’t have the means to pay an army of professional accountants to file reports for them. They typically can’t afford a compliance officer, much less an entire department, to do that sort of work. But once GM starts having to report Scope 3 emissions, it will need to get that data from its suppliers, and from their suppliers.
It will
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