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Why is my customer suddenly asking for my emissions?
Because your emissions count as part of theirs. In greenhouse gas accounting, everything a company buys carries the emissions of the supplier who produced it, and the buyer has to report them. If your customer has been asked for that figure by a regulator, an investor or their own biggest customer, the only way they can get it is to ask you.
This is the single most common reason a small business in Singapore or Malaysia ends up here, and it is worth understanding because it tells you what kind of answer is actually wanted.
Your customer is not auditing you. They are filling in a line in their own inventory. What they need is a defensible number with a stated boundary and a stated method — not a perfect one, and usually not an assured one.
The pressure is contractual rather than legal. No law in Singapore or Malaysia requires a typical small business to report emissions. But a procurement questionnaire is not optional if you want to stay on the panel, and that is a harder deadline than most regulations.
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Last reviewed 2026-09-04