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Companies that engage suppliers are 6.6 times as likely to have an upstream Scope 3 target
CDP and BCG examined more than 20 factors.
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Low-carbon supply is a procurement problem
In the Scope 3 Peer Group's survey of 180+ suppliers, 43% say low-carbon options cost more, yet contracts are still awarded on unit price.
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Insetting turns a sustainability expense into a supplier relationship
BASF and Boortmalt on barley emissions, Royal Canin and Soil Capital on 300,000 hectares of farmland, and ZEMBA on pooled buying power for low-emission shipping.
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Climate Week NYC and the 70% that sits in the supply chain
As Climate Week NYC opens, the number that matters for most companies is where their emissions sit: around 70% in the supply chain.
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DP World's Insetify: inset credits at commercial scale
Offering credits at no cost to customers is a deliberate market-building strategy.
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Banks are financing supplier upgrades to reduce Scope 3 emissions
DBS's data center retrofit initiative links supplier efficiency to sustainability-linked loans.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Category 11 question
Around 99 percent of MHI's Scope 3 is product use.
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Brenntag: distributors as the middle of the value chain
Scope 1 of 185,546 tCO2e against nearly 30 million in Scope 3.
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Equinor's 278 million tonne Scope 3 footprint
Billion-dollar capex decisions increasingly depend on supplier and partner decarbonization alignment.
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Delta Electronics: Scope 3 is 71 percent of the footprint
In electronics the challenge is purchased electricity, supplier alignment and downstream product impacts, not on-site combustion.
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Woodside links sustainability to shareholder value
The competitive question is how credibly companies connect climate governance, operational delivery and capital allocation.
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Arista Networks and the Scope 3 of AI infrastructure
Roughly 3.6 million tCO2e in Scope 3 against 30k in Scopes 1 and 2.
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