Most enterprise shippers already know they need to track freight emissions. The problem is how they're doing it.

Carrier emails. PDF reports. Spreadsheets stitched together by someone in sustainability who probably has fifteen other priorities. It works, just about, until someone in finance asks a question you can't answer, or your auditor asks for the methodology behind your numbers.

That moment is coming faster than most companies expect.

The data problem nobody talks about

Freight emissions are uniquely difficult to track. Not because the calculations are mysterious, but because the data is everywhere.

You might work with a dozen carriers. Each one sends data in a different format, at a different cadence, using different assumptions. One gives you fuel consumption. Another gives you distance and weight. A third gives you an emissions figure with no methodology attached.

None of it fits together cleanly.

So sustainability teams do what they can. They use industry averages to fill the gaps. They build formulas in spreadsheets that nobody fully understands. They produce a number that looks credible and hope nobody looks too closely at how it was made.

For a long time, that was good enough.

It isn't anymore.

The stakes have changed

Scope 3 reporting is no longer optional for large enterprises. And Scope 3 reductions is the next huge challenge. And investors, customers, and regulators are all asking the same question: where exactly are your emissions coming from, and how do you know?

Transport and distribution is typically one of the biggest and hardest-to-measure categories for companies that move physical goods. It's also one of the first places auditors look.

Industry averages don't hold up under scrutiny. They can't tell you which lane is your highest-emitting. They can't show improvement over time. They can't help you make better sourcing decisions.

Accurate freight emissions data isn't just a reporting requirement anymore. It's a competitive and commercial necessity.

What good actually looks like

The companies getting this right aren't spending more time on it; they're spending less. Because they've automated the parts that used to be manual.

Good freight emissions management looks like this:

• Automatic data collection from all your logistics providers, regardless of format or mode
• Granular, per-shipment CO2 figures — not averages, actual numbers based on real shipment data
• Multi-modal coverage — road, ocean, air, rail, and warehousing in one place
• A single source of truth that every team — sustainability, finance, procurement — can work from
• Audit-ready outputs with a clear methodology trail
• Reduction insights, not just reporting — so you can actually act on the data

The difference between this and a spreadsheet isn't just efficiency. It's the quality of decisions you can make.

The shipper-carrier disconnect

Here's the part that often gets missed.

Your freight emissions data is only as good as the data your logistics providers send you. And most logistics providers aren't set up to give you granular, verified CO2 data, because they don't have the tools to calculate it properly in the first place.

This is the gap at the centre of most enterprise freight emissions programmes. Shippers want good data. Carriers want to provide it. But the infrastructure to connect them (cleanly, automatically, at scale) hasn't existed. Until now.

How Lune is solving both sides of the problem

Earlier this year, Lune and gryn merged to create the only platform that tackles this problem from both ends of the supply chain.

On the shipper side: an enterprise platform that automatically collects shipment data from your logistics providers, calculates granular CO2 figures across every mode, and gives your sustainability, finance, and procurement teams one reliable place to report, analyse, and act.

On the logistics provider side: an API and platform that lets carriers and freight forwarders embed CO2 intelligence directly into their own products and customer dashboards, so they can give their shipper customers the data they're asking for, automatically.

The result is a closed loop. Shippers get the granular, verified data they need. Logistics providers get a way to meet the sustainability expectations that are increasingly written into tender requirements and contracts.

No more chasing carriers for spreadsheets. No more averaging your way through a Scope 3 report.

The cost of waiting

Every quarter you run freight emissions on manual processes is another quarter of unreliable data in your sustainability reports.

It's another tender where a competitor offers better emissions visibility. Another audit where your methodology gets questioned. Another year where you can't actually measure whether your decarbonisation efforts are working.

The companies that automate this now will have a material advantage — in reporting quality, in operational insight, and in the conversations they can have with customers, investors, and regulators.

The ones that wait will be catching up.

See how it works

gryn, Lune's dedicated solution for enterprise shippers, connects directly to your logistics providers, automates CO2 data collection across all freight modes, and gives you the granular, audit-ready emissions data your business needs. Get in touch to learn more!