Scope 3 emissions reporting: Replace estimates with primary supply chain data.

Spend-based Scope 3 estimates apply industry-average emissions factors to purchasing data — a method that is fast but too blunt to reflect the actual performance of individual suppliers, material choices, or operational improvements. Primary data, by contrast, is collected directly from the facilities and products in a brand’s supply chain, giving a verified, facility-level picture of where emissions actually originate. Worldly research shows that measuring key parameters with primary data meaningfully improves emissions accuracy compared to industry averages, making progress tracking and credible target-setting possible.

The Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM), stewarded and governed by Cascale and implemented globally through the Worldly sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform, captures primary energy use, emissions, and resource consumption data directly from manufacturing facilities — giving brands a verified, facility-level data foundation for Scope 3 Category 1 (Purchased Goods and Services) reporting. Because the Higg FEM is completed annually by facilities across the Worldly network, brands can track supplier performance over time and see whether improvements at the facility level are translating into measurable reductions in their Scope 3 footprint.

Worldly supports science-based target setting by replacing the spend-based estimates that most brands currently use with primary facility and product-level data — giving sustainability teams the accuracy needed to set credible baselines, identify which hotspots drive the most emissions, and track real progress over time. Worldly customers have modeled Scope 3 emissions for hundreds of thousands of unique products through the Product Impact Calculator, and related customer stories including Komar’s SBTi target achievement demonstrate what primary-data-grounded goals make possible.

Worldly customers scored higher on transparency in the 2025 Fashion Transparency Index compared to non-customers — an external signal that the primary data infrastructure Worldly provides translates into publicly recognized improvement in how brands disclose and communicate their sustainability performance. Credible Scope 3 reporting requires not just accurate data but the ability to share that data with stakeholders, investors, and regulators in a form they can trust, and Worldly is designed to support both sides of that requirement.