FOREWORD
“ Graph-based digital twins use data in a way that can be easily scaled , and they can be as detailed as the reality they capture ”
DR MICHAEL MOORE , PARTNER SOLUTIONS &
TECHNOLOGY PRINCIPAL , NEO4J
DIGITAL TWIN TECH HAS SCOPE 3 IN ITS SIGHTS
DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY IS SUPPLY CHAIN ’ S BIGGEST GUN IN THE BATTLE TO CONTROL THE SCOPE 3 CARBON EMISSIONS THREATENING OUR NET ZERO AMBITIONS
Increasingly , investors , stakeholders , suppliers and customers are demanding that the organisations in their ecosystem fulfil their obligations on Scope 3 emissions .
It is Scope 3 emissions that hold the key to making serious headway on reaching global net-zero targets by 2050 .
These are emissions produced not by the company itself but those from its value chain . For many organisations , such emissions account for 80 % of their total carbon footprint .
Trying to control the emissions of tens of thousands of vendors in a multinational ’ s supply chain can seem like a hopeless task . But there is hope – in the shape of digital twin technology .
As Dr Michael Moore – Partner Solutions & Technology Principal at Neo4j – tells us in this issue , digital twin tech “ is the only feasible way of modelling huge , real-world and realtime systems to gain visibility into carbon emissions across extended supply chains ”.
Of course , it ’ s not a silver bullet . Yet . But of all the Scope 3 solutions on offer , it is as close as we are likely to get .
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