Siyuan Zheng

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2026

Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for the majority of corporate carbon footprints, yet remain difficult to analyze at scale due to sparse disclosures, heterogeneous report document formats, and limited evidence traceability. Existing approaches typically rely on large language models to extract emissions information from ESG reports, but often lack explicit evidence grounding or depend on costly manual annotation and verification to ensure extraction reliability. To address these challenges, we propose **Scope3Trace**, an evidence-grounded information extraction framework designed to extract interpretable and traceable Scope 3 emissions information from real-world ESG and sustainability reports. The framework integrates a document information extraction pipeline that performs PDF collection and OCR parsing, LLM-assisted page localization and table reconstruction, and hybrid rule–LLM extraction of organization- and building-level emissions disclosures with evidence-grounded verification. Building upon this framework, we further contribute a dual-level, evidence-grounded, multimodal dataset comprising organization-level Scope 3 disclosures extracted from heterogeneous sustainability reports. **Scope3Trace** enables reliable extraction and transparent integration of heterogeneous sustainability disclosures, achieving high accuracy in extracting Scope 1–3 totals and category-level disclosures from sustainability reports. The code is available at https://github.com/cruiseresearchgroup/Scope3Trace.