Resources

Here you will find a growing library of free tools, templates and presentations shared by your peers to help support you on your Scope 3 journey.

Feel free to browse and download.

We also partner with the WBCSD’s Climate Drive to share our Case Studies.

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Benchmarking

The Scope 3 Challenge Summary

What the Scope 3 Peer Group members need to tackle and solve in the next 6 months

  • The Scope 3 Peer Group compile their challenges & advice every 6 months at out in-person meetings. You can view this here.

    You can use this to share with your organisation as a strong, fresh guide to what you need to be asking & tackling.

The Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark Report

How you compare in your progress and resourcing of the scope 3 challenge

  • The Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark Report 2024 offers a free and comprehensive guide of insights, best practices, and actionable steps to help organizations manage and reduce their Scope 3 emissions effectively.

    • In-depth Analysis: Discover detailed findings from over 170 organizations across various sectors.

    • Actionable Strategies: Access practical steps and frameworks to transition from planning to action.

    • Collaborative Insights: Learn from leading companies and harness the power of collaboration to drive progress towards Net Zero.

Industry Collaboration

The Value Chain Decarbonization Blueprint

The Blueprint outlines a strategic framework for collaboration across tiers of industry value chains.

We have started with the Life Sciences industry to collectively decarbonize and emphasizing the necessity of joint investment and collaborative effort.

  • The Scope 3 Peer Group wants to support the co-ordination of collaborative effort in and across value chains.

    This Blueprint - developed in partnership with Accenture - will help industries focus attention on the key challenges, priorities, initiatives, tools and projects.

    We have begun with the Life Sciences industry.

Strategy

Case study and template: Schneider Electric’s Zero Carbon Project

  • A case study and template for aligning business values & strategy with the key principles to best achieve Scope 3 targets, and organising cross-functional teams. Produced by Christophe Quiquempoix, Vice President Global Procurement - Sustainable Procurement, Schneider Electric.

Case study: NHS England’s Net Zero Supply Chain approach

  • An outline of how NHS England is driving decarbonisation in the the supply chain - including a commitment to have PCFs from ALL suppliers by 2028. Produced by Alexandra Hammond, Associate Director, Net Zero & Sustainable Procurement, NHS England.

Supplier engagement

Case study: Engaging suppliers for Scope 3 reductions at Hempel

  • How to build a Supplier Engagement strategy

    Dagny Nome, Procurement Sustainability Manager, Hempel A/S shares how she developed her strategy and tactics for identifying, segmenting, engaging, measuring, developing emission factors, and collaborating with suppliers, including Tier 2 and below.

Case study: Supplier Sustainability Engagement on Scope 3 at CCEP

  • Philip Kavvadias, Senior Manager - Supplier Sustainability, Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners (CCEP) on how to build a supplier engagement strategy.

Case study: Supplier engagement at FDLSmidth

  • How to build a supplier engagement strategy

    Rikke Gade Christensen, Head of Sustainable Supply Chain, FLSmidth (a global mining & cement equipment supplier) shares how she developed her strategy and tactics for identifying, segmenting, engaging, measuring, developing emission factors, and collaborating with suppliers.

    This includes a focus on handling smaller suppliers, especially high emitters.

The 1.5°C Business Playbook

  • The 1.5°C Business Playbook is a guide for companies that are at the beginning of – or mid-way towards – taking climate action. It covers the aspects a company needs to think about to align with a 1.5-degree ambition. It is short but comprehensive and easy read and companies can pick up what is most relevant for them and build upwards.

Guidance from the Exponential Roadmap Initiative

  • The Exponential Roadmap Initiative webpage has lots of guidance. Companies can dive into Circularity (medium), Renewable Energy in the supply chain (advanced), Cash in bank (advanced), Climate Solutions (advanced, but also for beginners wanting to be net zero ready from the start) and those more in depth topics that may be for the more advanced.

SME Climate Hub

  • The SME Climate Hub is the most all-round one stop shop out there, where Small and Medium sized Enterprises can make a commitment, find guides for how to reduce, education on climate knowledge and also create their own public climate reports, all for free.

Data and tools

Scope 3 Tools Review 2024

  • The Scope 3 Peer Group asks its members once per year about the noisy landscape of scope 3 tools in the market. Collectively we’ve seen & heard thousands of demos, pitches and promises.

    We compile all this opinion and insight into this document and make it available to anyone, anywhere for free. A huge thank you to Miguel Cossio for his support! The forthcoming Scope 3 Podcast will take a different look at the philosophies and visions of many of the solutions’ founders.

    We hope it helps you make faster & more confident decisions. But make sure you talk directly to your most immediate peers as well, first.

Navigating the Technology Landscape for Scope 3 Solutions

  • Miguel Cossio, Procurement Research Director - Supply Chain, Gartner shares his advice, tips and views on selecting Scope 3 tools and the future of the market, including insight from the Scope 3 Peer Group Tools Landscape Survey.

Shifting from spend-based methodology at UCB Pharma

  • Daniela Urquiza Travi, Sustainability Manager, UCB Biopharma shares her strategy for collecting the right mix of data, analysing, and reporting – including how she selected the right tools for the job.

Supplier data and methodology for NSG

  • Jarosław Plewniok, Procurement Manager – Supplier Capability & Development, NSG shares how his business has implemented a sustainable supply chain strategy to maximise positive environmental and societal impact, increase innovation, reduce cost and risk, and enhance NSG’s brand.

Pfizer’s supplier engagement and data methodology journey

  • Maria Terracina, Sustainable Sourcing Lead, Pfizer shares her strategy for collecting the right mix of data, analysing and reporting. She explains how to support supplier-specific emission factor development, at scale and speed.

Scope 3 at Dow

  • Suzanne Greene, Procurement Environmental Sustainability Director, Dow shares her strategy for collecting the right mix of data, analysing and reporting.

What is the Carbon Accounting Alliance?

  • An introduced to the Carbon Accounting Alliance, on a mission to bring carbon accountants together for collective impact.

What is the chemical industry’s PCF Verification Framework?

  • An introduction to Together for Sustainability’s PCF Verification Framework, created by the chemicals industry to better enable the quality of PCF data.

Engaging procurement teams

Engaging procurement at CBRE

  • Mat Langley, Global Procurement Head ESG, CBRE shares his strategy for capability-building his procurement teams – including setting KPIs, training, tools, data and content.

Engaging and capability building in procurement on Scope 3 at Chr. Hansen

  • Sruthi Surendran, Sustainable Sourcing Manager, Chr. Hansen explains how to support procurement with the right questions and actions for suppliers.

Smart Freight Centre’s Sustainable Logistics Procurement Playbook

  • The Sustainable Logistics Procurement Playbook from the Smart Freight Centre and the Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance.

    It explains how to facilitate the transition to logistics decarbonisation by integrating sustainability in logistics procurement.

Bayer’s approach to Carbon Pricing

  • The team at Bayer explain how they are embedding the cost of carbon into procurement decisions.

Haleon’s approach to Carbon Pricing

  • The team at Haleon explain how they are embedding the cost of carbon into procurement decisions.