When you work with customers on Green Project, your sustainability data is there to do the work for you, so you are not answering the same questions for every buyer. This article explains what your customers can see in your profile, and, just as importantly, what they cannot.
By default, your corporate sustainability profile is visible to your Green Project buyers. You stay in control: you can review everything in your profile at any time, and you can switch your profile to request-only if you'd prefer to approve each customer individually (see Managing Your Profile and Customer Requests).
What Your Customers Can See
When your profile is public, your Green Project buyers can view:
Corporate carbon footprint and economic intensity. Your total CCF (absolute tCO2e), Scope 1, 2 and 3 breakdown, emissions intensity, and year-over-year trend where available.
Product and service carbon footprint. PCFs for the items you've calculated, where applicable.
Renewable electricity share and energy consumption.
Emissions reduction targets, including any science-based (SBTi-aligned) targets.
Decarbonisation initiatives you have underway.
Supply chain engagement progress.
Benchmark context: how your intensity compares to industry peers.
Data That Always Stays Confidential
Making your profile public does not expose your commercially sensitive data. Your revenue is never shared, and the primary data you upload to build your footprint, such as your spend and activity data, is never shown to customers; what they see are the calculated emissions results (your Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and your emissions intensity), not your underlying inputs. The following is never shared, regardless of your profile setting:
Your actual annual revenue figure (customers see intensity, not the underlying number).
Your detailed spend breakdown by supplier or category.
Your accounting data and internal cost structures.
Information about your other customers or suppliers.
Controlling What You Share
By default your profile is public to your Green Project buyers. If you'd rather approve customers individually, you can switch your profile to request-only at any time, which restores the request-and-approve flow. Either way, you can review what's in your profile whenever you like, and any updates you make are reflected automatically for the customers who can see it.
It is worth weighing the trade-off before switching to request-only: you go back to approving each customer one by one, which usually means more repeat questionnaires, slower onboarding for new buyers, and the chance that a customer cannot find your data at the moment they need it.
How Will My Client Use My Emissions Data?
When you share your emissions data, your customer uses it to understand their own supply chain emissions and meet their sustainability goals. They may allocate a portion of your emissions to their own corporate footprint in one of three ways.
The most common method is spend-based allocation: your customer calculates what percentage of your total revenue their spend represents, and allocates that same percentage of your total emissions to their footprint. For example, if they represent 20% of your revenue, they attribute 20% of your emissions to their own Scope 3.
Alternatively, if you've calculated a Product Carbon Footprint for items you sell to them, they may use that figure multiplied by the number of units purchased. In some cases they'll work with you to determine an appropriate allocation based on additional data about your operations.
If your products are built by subcontractors, your data reflects your company's direct activities, but spending on subcontractor services is included in your spend data, so your customer still sees your total footprint including that supply chain portion.
Your customer uses your emissions data to calculate their own Scope 3 emissions, meet reporting requirements (CDP, SBTi, and similar), identify high-emissions suppliers for engagement, and report publicly on their supply chain decarbonisation efforts. When you reduce your emissions, it helps your customer reduce theirs too: a positive feedback loop across the whole supply chain.