Does an Indian supplier have to give CDP a market-based Scope 2 figure?
Only where you can access supplier emission factors, residual factors or contractual instruments. Otherwise a location-based figure alone is enough. Question 7.3 has options to say which case applies. CDP lists Indian REC among instruments, so read its wording before choosing "none available".
What CDP says
- The GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance asks for two methods, location-based and market-based.
- The market-based method is for companies with operations in markets that offer product or supplier-specific data in contractual instruments.
- If that does not apply to you, you only need one location-based figure.
What counts as a contractual instrument
Contracts for energy sold with its attributes, or for attributes alone: energy attribute certificates, direct contracts such as PPAs, and supplier-specific emission rates.
The three market-based options in 7.3
- Reporting a market-based figure.
- No operations where you can access supplier or residual emission factors, so unable to report.
- Operations where you can access them, but unable to report.
How to decide
If your supplier can give you its own emission rate, or you buy RECs, a green tariff or a PPA, report market-based. If you buy nothing, check whether such instruments exist in your market regardless of whether you buy them. CDP says that if they do, the "no operations" option is the wrong one.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reports Scope 2 on a location basis from your bills at the CEA grid factor for the bill's year, 0.675 kg per kWh for FY 2025-26, and adds a market-based figure where you provide the certificate or contract data.
Sources: CDP, Full Corporate Questionnaire, Module 7 reporting guidance (April 2025), question 7.3
Last reviewed 2026-11-03. CDP updates its questionnaire and guidance every year; check the current version before answering.