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Asking your own suppliers
A request you can send down the chain without recreating the burden.
Thirty minutes on sending the request you wished you had received. We rank an example supplier list to find the few that matter, check what they have already published, write the short four-item request live, and go through what to do with the answers and the silences. Bring your supplier list ranked by spend if you can. Runs twice a year; the recording is on this page.
Resources from the session
- GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard: how your suppliers' figures feed into the purchased goods category of your footprint. Free.
- Together for Sustainability Scope 3 supplier toolkit: the chemical sector's free toolkit for suppliers starting product footprint work. Free, also in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.
- RBA Scope 3 Category 1 guidance: the Responsible Business Alliance's guidance on supplier-specific data for purchased goods, written for electronics. Free.
- SME Climate Hub Small Business Carbon Calculator: the free calculator to point a small supplier at when they ask where to start. Free, also in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Arabic.
- PCF Evaluator: check a footprint a supplier sends you, run live in the session. Free.
- EcoVadis report upload: turns a supplier's EcoVadis scorecard into emissions figures. Free.
- Base Empreinte (Footprint emission-factor database): ADEME's official public emission factor database, shown for lines where a supplier has not replied. In French. Free (account for downloads).
- 排出原単位データベース (Emission factor database): Japan's Ministry of the Environment's free factors for scopes 1 to 3, shown alongside. In Japanese. Free.
- Replying when you have little or no data: the guide to link in your request so your suppliers have somewhere to start. Free.
- Free help by country: free and public help in your own country and language. Free.
Get help
Email suppliersupport@ditchcarbon.com and hear back within two working days. Free, whether or not your customer uses DitchCarbon.
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Free, takes about 30 seconds, and is where your customer reads your answer from.
Free, takes about 30 seconds, and is where your customer reads your answer from.
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