Fireside Chat: Scope 3 Standards Program: From ambition to action: scaling high-integrity scope 3 projects

​As companies face growing pressure to address Scope 3 emissions, many struggle to translate climate commitments into measurable reductions and removals across complex value chains. While investment opportunities are expanding, the market needs credible ways to quantify, verify, and report the impacts of value chain climate action. This fireside chat will explore how innovative approaches can accelerate value chain climate action and advance global climate goals, with a focus on Verra’s newly launched Scope 3 Standard Program (S3S). Building on the accounting foundations of Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, S3S applies proven project-based approaches within value chains, using standardized methodologies, independent validation and verification, and transparent digital infrastructure to certify greenhouse gas outcomes. The discussion will examine S3S within the broader corporate net-zero ecosystem, including how certified projects can support emerging Scope 3 accounting and reporting approaches while complementing direct decarbonization efforts and frameworks such as the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard. Drawing on lessons from the voluntary carbon market, pilots, and stakeholder engagement, panelists will explore how companies, producers, project developers, and other value chain actors can collaborate to unlock investment in verified emissions reductions and removals. Attendees will gain practical insight into the standards, verification systems, and market infrastructure needed to turn climate commitments into credible outcomes.