For much of the past decade, Scope 2 emissions have been the success story of corporate decarbonisation.
Businesses switched to renewable electricity contracts, signed power purchase agreements and purchased renewable energy certificates. Combined with grid decarbonisation and energy efficiency improvements, these actions helped many organisations cut reported emissions at a pace that would have been difficult elsewhere in their carbon footprint.
In the UK, renewable technologies accounted for a record 52.5% of electricity generation in 2025, with low-carbon sources accounting for 64.8%.
But as organisations approach near-zero market-based Scope 2 emissions, the challenge is no longer switching to renewable electricity, it's...
