The DitchCarbon Blog

Your company has a net-zero target for 2030. A significant portion of your Scope 3 emissions comes from agriculture-the thousands of farms that produce the raw materials for your products. The board wants a credible reduction plan, but…

Many organisations with science-based targets are now facing their next great challenge: Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) emissions. If your business buys food, timber, or other land-based commodities, you are now expected to account…

Most organisations with serious climate targets have a good handle on their Scope 1 and 2 emissions. The real challenge, the one that keeps sustainability and procurement leaders awake at night, is Scope 3. Specifically, how do you move…

The most common question I hear from sustainability and procurement leaders is not about reporting standards or data quality. It is something far more practical: “How do we get our suppliers to actually do something about their…

An organisation’s carbon footprint from services can feel like smoke. You know it’s there-often accounting for a huge slice of your Scope 3 emissions-but you cannot quite get a handle on it. The numbers, derived from spend data, point to…

Many organisations are stuck in a loop. Each year, sustainability and procurement teams launch a huge effort to survey hundreds, sometimes thousands, of suppliers for their emissions data. They chase responses, wrangle spreadsheets, and…

An organisation's Scope 3 targets live or die in the supply chain. For many European companies, the biggest challenge is not setting the goal, but making it meaningful to their suppliers in the United States. You have ambitious,…

An organisation’s climate ambition often meets reality in the form of an absolute reduction target. The board signs off on a bold goal-a 42% cut by 2030, for example-and the sustainability team gets to work measuring the Scope 3…

Many organisations have done the hard work of calculating their Scope 3 emissions baseline. They’ve spent months chasing data, wrangling spreadsheets, and applying spend-based factors to create a number. But after the report is published,…

Most companies know their Scope 3 challenge lies in the supply chain. For businesses making physical products, the path, while difficult, is relatively clear: focus on the steel, the logistics, the raw materials. But what if your…

[ { "created-date": "2024-05-21T10:00:00.000Z", "summary": "Move beyond spend-based estimates by strategically enriching and prioritising supplier data. This practical guide shows how to stop boiling the ocean and start making decisions…

Most organisations now understand the need to collect supplier emissions data. The surveys go out, the spreadsheets get filled, and a number is calculated. Yet for many, that is where the process stalls. The data sits in a report, ticking…

Many organisations are stuck in a cycle of supplier engagement that produces data, but no clear decarbonisation plan. A year is spent chasing responses to a survey, compiling the results into a vast spreadsheet, and presenting a report.…

During a recent workshop, a Head of Sustainable Procurement asked a question that gets to the heart of a common Scope 3 struggle: “We spend months chasing suppliers for activity data-kilowatt-hours, fuel consumption, logistics metrics.…

Bridging the gap between reporting and decarbonization requires turning carbon data into actionable procurement insights and emissions intensity scoring. Companies achieve results by switching to lower emission suppliers identified through year on year performance tracking.