I'm all in favour of full and honest #climate disclosures.

But does @CampbellSoupCo really account for nearly 14% of the world's ~36bn tonnes a year of CO2 emissions?

https://www.campbellcsr.com/cr-at-campbell/performance-scorecard.html
Has better methodology really resulted in them increasing their Scope 3 emissions by *68 million percent* over the previous year?

I'm struggling to find justification in the footnote for Campbell's accounting for almost as much emissions as *the U.S. in total*.
I hope this isn't just evidence that the directors of Campbell's pay zero attention to reading their climate disclosures before putting them out.
This does suggest a very easy path to reducing Scope 3 emissions by 99% or more on a 2019 baseline.
Here's some other odd ones. @ThaioilC reckons it accounts for more emissions than Japan and Germany *put together*:

I suspect this is a million tonnes/thousand tonnes drafting error.

https://www.thaioilgroup.com/upload/media_file/202002280842_TOPIntegratedReport2019_EN.pdf
And Saipem reckons it accounts for more Scope 3 than Saudi Arabia's domestic carbon emissions:

https://www.saipem.com/en/making-change-possible/enabling-carbon-footprint-reductions/ghg-reduction-and-energy-efficiency

There's at least a plausible explanation for this based on how it accounts for oilfield services Scope 3, but it doesn't look right.
Anyway, it's nice to see more companies disclosing this stuff and not playing it down. But I feel some of these numbers owe more to management not paying attention and ending up with ridiculously large figures as a result, which isn't really the change that's needed.
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