To reduce your scope 3 emissions, you need to start working with your suppliers actual emissions - not estimating them - so you can attribute their reductions back to you, or switch to more emission efficient suppliers.
Step 1 is data, find out which suppliers are calculating emissions, how much they are, whether they’ve set targets to reduce, and how ambitious those are. Step 2 is monitoring this and holding them accountable, and including it in the procurement process. Step 3 is calculating how those targets contribute to your own scope 3 targets, and recalculating scope 3 based on actual emissions. Only then, do we recommend diving into more granular data like LCAs.
Automatically get and monitor your suppliers emissions
Use suppliers actual emissions to recalculate your own
Empower your suppliers to improve
The biggest hurdle in decarbonization is to accurately get emissions data and keep it up to date across hundreds or thousands of suppliers.
With Responsibly, you get the most flexible approach; our AI scans disclosures, websites, reports, and governmental databases, while our engagement engine automates, guides and empowers suppliers to improve.
SBTi is great but when you’re working with a long tail of suppliers, you need to be more flexible to get all your suppliers to commit to reducing. We automatically pick up reduction targets, project emissions, help you understand whether the supplier is falling behind, and whether the target has been verified by third parties like SBTi and others.
There are many ways to calculate scope 3 emissions, but to make it usable, you need to use your suppliers actual emissions rather than industry averages. This allows you to compare suppliers within similar categories during procurement processes, and ensure your suppliers emission reductions get reflected in your own.
Emissions data is surprisingly complicated. Is a number high or low compared to industry? What about the target? What do I do with emission standards like CDP or the CO2 performance ladder? To help you include emissions into your procurement processes, we help you translate all the raw data into scores that procurement can easily use and compare suppliers on.
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One of the benefits of leveraging your suppliers actual emissions data is that you can finally recognize the reductions being made, and include them in your own scope 3 reductions.
We help you easily calculate this, and also navigate which suppliers are committed but less ambitious than you, who’s falling behind, and how much of your target is met if everyone achieves their own targets.
Some of your suppliers haven’t yet calculated their emissions, and that means you need to push them to do so. To help prioritize this engagement, we’ve already automatically found out where suppliers don’t calculate, and we’ll soon be able to estimate the emissions per supplier, so you can focus engagement on the biggest emitters first.
We’re proponents of a very flexible approach to reading emissions data. Sometimes you need to use the parent organization’s disclosures, sometimes the specific site. And soon, the product-level emissions, in the form of e.g. LCAs. With Responsibly, you flexibly navigate these different layers of data, to dive deep where you need to and not overwhelm your suppliers.