The three barriers to Scope 3 reductions, and an instrument for each

The top 3 barriers to reducing [Scope 3] emissions are:

• Customers' unwillingness to pay more,
• Knowledge gaps,
• and High costs. C3 provides the instruments and framework to tackle these:

1. Green premium costs can be distributed among many value chain stakeholders to minimize (or eliminate) the cost increase for end-consumers. Since supply chain stakeholders share the common goal of reducing Scope 3 emissions, the price for achieving that is to bare a fraction of the green premium. C3's inset credits enable cost-sharing and co-financing to spread the costs and sustainability claims from the resulting Scope 3 reductions.

2. Not knowing how to decarbonize and tackle Scope 1-to-3 emissions mainly stem from a lack of insetting projects. The same reason many organizations default to offsetting, which comes with questionable impact and greenwashing claims. C3 facilitates project listings, matchmaking, and an insetting framework that guarantees impactful and verifiable supply chain emission reductions.

3. Decarbonization initiatives can have very high costs, especially for organizations that operate in silos instead of collaborating and co-financing. C3's inset credits enable co-financing and capital pooling to de-risk ambitious green initiatives (e.g.: e-fuel production infrastructure) which require multilateral collaboration, and share the GHG reduction benefits among stakeholders and shareholders; creating much needed supply & demand signals.

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Data and Image source: Sustainability Still Matters report by MIT - sustainable.mit.edu

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