The days of asking a supplier for a corporate footprint may be numbered.

The days of asking a supplier for a corporate footprint may be numbered.

The days of asking a supplier for a corporate footprint may be numbered.

The real bullseye? Product footprints for what you buy.

Most of the industry has been attuned to thinking that corporate footprints are the ultimate solution to corporate sustainability.

The plot twist is that Product Footprints are much more useful in driving change. People move towards Product Footprints because Corporate Footprints:

• 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀: Scope 1-3 is too abstract for customers (retailers and consumers) to understand and make informed decisions off. If the data is hard to make use off downstream, it’s less likely to be asked for upstream.
• 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: Requesting aggregated emissions across scopes 1-3 makes it difficult to identify targeted emissions reduction opportunities within your supply chain (where opportunities are often very different based on material or ingredient).
• 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲: A supplier’s Corporate Footprint cannot be seamlessly incorporated into an activity or mass based Scope 3 calculation on your side. This is only really possible if you have a mass based Product Footprint.So…what’s your supply chain program targeting?

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