W of the company’ s Scope 3 emissions are tied up in the products that the company sells.
“ Managing Scope 3 emissions is just as exciting as our internal emissions, but even more challenging,” Liam says.“ We’ re looking at the impact we’ re having indirectly within the value chain, and expanding the range of sustainable and natural products we have. A lot of these have demonstrably lower carbon footprints, and that’ s exactly what we’ re targeting.”
Managing these indirect emissions requires a move away from high-level, spend-based estimations towards verifiable primary supplier data.“ If I go back a few years, a lot of estimations were based on spend and intensity of the industry. I’ m actually quite happy to see how the use of those estimates has come down sharply, and what’ s gone up is quality secondary and primary data use,” says Liam.
“ We have to look at both organisations and standards – so if we think about PCFs, we’ re looking at ISO standards. If we think about how we can share that across the value chain, we’ re partnering with organisations such as TFS and EcoVadis. But while frameworks are useful, I think there’ s even more value in the relationships that we hold and the collaboration we have with both customers and suppliers.
“ We’ ve gone through a real evolution from making a lot of assumptions towards making a lot of partnerships.”
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