Transport is flagged as relevant in 8 of 16 high-impact sectors

The transport categories — category 4 upstream and category 9 downstream — are presented as relevant in **8 of CDP's 16** high-impact sectors. | Sector | Transport categories | |---|---| | Cement | 4 · 9 | | Chemicals | 4 | | Construction (developers) | 4 | | Electric utilities | 4 | | Food, beverage and tobacco | 9 · 4 | | Paper and forestry | 9 (forestry) · 4·9 (processing) | | Real estate (developers) | 4 | | Transportation services | 4 (largest in sector) | ## The two places with a figure attached **Cement** — WBCSD guidance recommends that most companies in the sector calculate and report category 9, and in practice **68% of cement companies reported category 9 as "relevant, calculated"**. **Transportation services** — category 4 is the largest at 32% of the sector's Scope 3. ## Where it must not be overstated **Food, beverage and tobacco** has category 9 second in its summary table. But the same section ends like this — a majority of 2021 respondents reported these categories as "relevant, calculated", yet **"neither accounted for a significant proportion of the sector's total emissions"**. What dominates that sector is category 1 (reported by 70% of 162 companies, 77% of Scope 3). So compressing this into "transport is large for shippers" would overstate CDP's own account. Precisely: **transport is presented as a relevant category in half the high-impact sectors, its size differs by sector, and it is largest for the logistics services sector itself.** ※ Chemicals, electric utilities, construction and real estate appear in the relevant-category lists but the document gives no individual share for them, so none is reproduced. --- This article expands one section of LCS international standards analysis 2, *Where CDP Puts Transport*. The full report works from the CDP technical note itself (v3.0, 2024-06-28) as its primary source with page numbers given, and does not fill in figures the document does not contain.