The Scope 3 Agenda Podcast EcoVadis

As businesses and public organizations strive to implement the principles of sustainable procurement, understanding your company's carbon emissions is essential, and indirect emissions, i.e., those coming from the supply chain are a key part of that. In fact, as Julia Salant, General Manager for the carbon solution at EcoVadis, explains, Scope 3 emissions constitute a vast chunk of all carbon emissions and as such should be a priority for businesses. The management of Scope 3 emissions isn’t easy – as it falls outside of companies’ direct control, but is essential for sustainability and builds transparency and trust among stakeholders, investors, and customers.

Kevin Rabinovitch emphasizes the significance of Scope 3 emissions in Mars' greenhouse gas footprint, accounting for 96% of their total emissions, while their direct operations represent only 4%. The majority of Mars' emissions are associated with agricultural raw materials used in their products. Tune in to hear more on that from Kevin Rabinovitch, Global VP of Sustainability and Chief Climate Officer for Mars, Incorporated.

Supply chains is what keeps the world going. So it's no surprise that they generate 60% of global emissions. If we want to accelerate decarbonization globally and if we want to meet our ambition to decarbonize by 2050, supply chains are the answer. Tune in to hear more from Mattias Pollmann Larsen, Accenture's Managing Director, Global Sustainable Value Chain Lead.

Decarbonization isn’t going to be possible without tackling supply chain emissions. This is well understood by IKEA. The International furniture giant says it doesn’t split the emissions in terms of scopes 1, 2 and 3 but instead looks into the Group’s total impact on climate change. Tune in to hear more on that from Andreas Rangel Ahrens, IKEA’s Head of Climate.

As supply chain emissions are increasingly becoming a hot topic in boardrooms across industries we talked to Nancy Gillis, Program Head of Climate Action at the World Economic Forum who also leads the First Movers Coalition. Ms Gillis delves into the details of how we can work with the purchasing power of organizations, in particular, the private sector, and see how that can actually lead toward decarbonizing or reducing the greenhouse gasses of economically essential sectors.

Fergal Byrne talks to Vanessa Miler-Fels, VP of Climate and Environment at Schneider Electric, about tackling upstream and downstream value chain emissions and the vital role of partnerships.