Industry Net Zero Accelerator

Case Studies

A collection of case studies from open sources or consultation calls with our community, aiming at accelerating the transition towards Net Zero in Industry, following the "No Excuse" Framework.

Challenge The Bosch Bursa plant in Türkiye manufactures injectors for powertrain combustion engines destined mainly for the European market. The manufacturing site aims to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 15% by 2025 for Scope 1 and 2 and logistics. To address its packaging and transportation emissions, the plant needed to build collaborations with its most important partners: suppliers, customers and logistics service providers (LSPs). Solution Bosch Bursa engaged in several projects tackling aspects of its logistics operations that focused on creating synergies and collaboration with stakeholders in its supply chain:Increasing filling rate in bulk packaging: by taking a “go and see” approach in the warehouse, the site realized that raw material boxes were delivered with a filling rate as low as 35–50%. To increase the filling rate, Bosch’s packaging team reviewed the needed quantities over time, the frequency of delivery and the handling. Since this would affect suppliers’ ways of working, the team collaborated with suppliers to define the optimal filling rate while ensuring load security to avoid damaging the materials. By partnering together, Bosch and its suppliers reached an optimal filling rate to ensure the least number of deliveries with the best quality. As a result, the company reduced its emissions and its suppliers achieved less handling for its products, fewer printed documents and more efficient operations. The site was able to multiply the filling rate of the boxes by around two to three times, and the measure saved 300 MtCO2/ year by considerably reducing the number of boxes to be purchased, handled and cleaned.Repairing reusable packaging: Bosch Bursa switched to 100% returnable plastic packaging, with standardized boxes for inbound and outbound European deliveries. The site also partnered with a local service provider to repair (by rewelding) damaged packs that would previously have been scrapped. After implementing the repair of damaged boxes, the site saved 200 MtCO2/year.Switching air to sea: using a logistics dashboard highlighting emissions data by type of transportation revealed that air freight generated 62 times more CO2 than sea freight for the same load. Through proactive customer engagement and negotiation of alternate delivery timelines, the site successfully shifted to predominantly using sea freight, resulting in a reduction of 7,700 metric tons of CO2 emissions over two years. Impact In just three years, the site has averted the emission of 30,000 metric tons of CO2 through a series of innovative logistics decarbonization projects. This achievement is the result of effective communication and collaboration with both suppliers and customers, allowing for greater flexibility in prioritizing sustainability across network design, packaging and logistics operations. In recognition of these efforts, the site received the Bosch Corporate Sustainability Award in the Resource Efficiency category in 2022.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Automotive
Bosch - Collaborating for sustainable logistics
Challenge Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is a global leader in innovative energy technologies, committed to providing solutions and services for new energy applications worldwide. The company plans to achieve carbon neutrality in its core operations by 2025 and across the battery value chain by 2035. To achieve this goal, CATL needs to onboard its suppliers on a green and high-quality value chain. Solution CATL launched a partnership programme named “CREDIT” (Carbon footprint, Recycling, Energy, Due Diligence, Innovation and Transparency) focused on sustainable lithium-ion battery value supply chains. The programme covers 135 evaluation indicators for both direct and indirect suppliers of CATL that are compliant with the EU Batteries Regulation and other international standards. It includes an onsite evaluation and analysis of sustainability practices that results in a scoring against all indicators, priority areas of action and recommendations for suppliers to strengthen their sustainability performance. This programme is offered by CATL to its suppliers and the results can affect future purchases. Additionally, CATL has established an incentive system to push forward sustainability, with awards for suppliers and joint research to cover new technologies around electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling industries. Impact Since the “CREDIT” programme launch in 2022, CATL has conducted onsite assessments of 35 core suppliers. Additionally, 51 training sessions on sustainable development have been provided to suppliers’ employees. In 2023, CATL aims to provide onsite assessments for approximately 60 suppliers, including those with the highest carbon footprint. CATL will continue to improve and broaden the “CREDIT” assessment coverage and indicators based on suppliers’ specificities and has launched a post-assessment tracking and support process in 2023 to further enable the sustainability transformation of suppliers.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Energy Technologies
CATL - On-the-field sustainability partnership programme for suppliers
Challenge Schneider Electric (SE) aims to cut absolute GHG emissions across its entire value chain by 25% by 2030 from its 2021 baseline, on its way to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions across its entire value chain by 2050. Having decreased its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 67% since 2017, SE acknowledged that it will not be able to achieve that ambitious goal without engaging its suppliers, an integral part of its ecosystem that accounts for 70% of SE’s upstream carbon emissions. This is why in 2021 SE launched “The Zero Carbon project”, which aims to help its top suppliers reduce their operational emissions (Scope 1 and 2) by 50% by 2025. Solution The Zero Carbon Project provides capacity-building, thought leadership, resources, digital tools and practical assistance and guidance to programme participants, helping them set and achieve their carbon reduction targets. The initiative cultivates best practice exchange via regular live engagements and training sessions, with training materials available on the Schneider Supplier Portal. The project has three fundamental tenets: Analytics: help suppliers quantify their GHG emissions, establish a baseline and identify the main sources of emissionsAmbition: encourage suppliers to set ambitious emissions reduction targetsAction: support suppliers in deploying their action plans to achieve their targetsThe Zero Carbon Project was launched globally via a live webcast with top executives from Schneider Electric’s top suppliers. The event set the vision and expectations for the initiative, highlighting Schneider’s unique position and experience in achieving a 60% CO2 reduction in less than five years. The programme’s flexibility was emphasized, catering to each supplier’s unique situation in terms of industry, size, country, energy mix and CO2 maturity. Impact More than 1,000 companies have joined Schneider’s Zero Carbon Project, with 1,300 supplier participants trained, resulting in the company having already achieving a 24% emissions reduction by the end of Q3 2023. Interestingly, 70% of these suppliers had never assessed their carbon footprint before. Schneider provides support to the suppliers, engaging with them at various stages of decarbonization maturity, and helping them progress towards the 50% reduction target by 2025.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Technology
Schneider Electric – Striving for a net-zero supply chain with the Zero Carbon project
Challenge Batteries are one of the most important components of tomorrow’s green mobility. However, the manufacturing of batteries involves significant sustainability challenges linked to environmental, social and societal impacts. Manufacturing such components responsibly necessitates the ability to trace batteries across the entire supply chain, from raw material to final product. Solution In response to this challenge, in 2023 the EU approved the EU Batteries Regulation, mandating the creation of digital battery passports to document and exchange sustainability data throughout the value chain. This passport will incorporate a wide range of information, including battery and manufacturer details, compliance and certifications, carbon footprint, supply-chain due diligence, battery materials, circularity, performance and durability. A specific methodology for calculating the product carbon footprint is provided by the 2023 EU Battery Regulation to align manufacturers and ensure comparability. The passport serves as an event tracker, to record when the product is sold, assembled, repaired, etc. This data can be accessible to the general public or specific battery industry stakeholders depending on its nature. Finally, the regulation requires the battery passport to provide dismantling information to push for easy repair and maintenance in a circular approach. Deploying the battery passport will require automation of data collection from manufacturers but also exchange of data across different actors in the value chain. This implies collaborating across multiple stakeholders to define a common framework, standards and harmonized digital systems to ensure they are using a common language, comparable calculations and trustworthy infrastructure.Impact In the EU, the Battery Regulation has set a strong precedent, contributing to greater transparency and sustainability in the battery value chain. Traceability enables more responsible production, use and disposal of batteries and increased consumer knowledge. Industry groups such as the Global Battery Alliance and the Battery Pass consortium are working on global adoption, developing standards and showing how digital battery passports can work in practice. Beyond the EU, China and the US (with its Inflation Reduction Act) have also started to develop similar initiatives.  Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Automotive
Battery passport - A sector-level policy to enhance transparency across the value chain
Challengethyssenkrupp Rasselstein, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of packaging steel, serves clients in more than 80 countries globally. This leads to Scope 3 emissions associated with transport and distribution (categories 4 and 9). Wanting to efficiently drive emissions reduction initiatives, the company had to resolve the lack of real-time logistics GHG emissions data, which affected data quality and availability across fragmented systems.Solutionthyssenkrupp co-innovated with Celonis, a digital technology pioneer in process mining, to develop a data-driven shipping emissions reduction application. The app analyses truck movements out of thyssenkrupp’s sites and, coupled with contextual data, calculates the associated emissions. It is built on the Celonis Process Intelligence platform and leverages the carbon engine application programming interface (API) from Climatiq, a carbon calculation engine. It serves as an intermediary between customers’ IT systems and various analytical dashboards, algorithms and automation processes that run on top of it. To address the data quality challenge, Celonis and Climatiq aligned with domain experts to craft logic-based parameters to fill in any gaps in datasets and create a special module to validate existing data computed by the application. The Climatiq calculation engine is accredited by and follows the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) framework to ensure comparability and standardization.ImpactOver three months, the app analysed more than 49,000 outbound truck movements with activity data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, resulting in a granular and automated calculation of total emissions of more than 58 million kgCO2e. Through intelligent optimization of truck load factors, an emissions reduction potential of more than 4.5 million kgCO2e was identified. The app empowered Thyssenkrupp to automatically compute emissions using input data from IT systems, incorporating them into transactional systems to guide processes and decision-making. Several takeaways resulted from this collaboration: ERP data provides a strong basis for automated and granular measurement. Distance-based emissions measurement per shipment (rooted in ERP data) enables accurate emissions measurement, target-setting and performance improvement. Finally, shipment emissions data shared with customers can strengthen relationships and help with customers' own carbon accounting.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Mining & Metals
Celonis & thyssenkrupp - Enhancing supply network transparency with process mining
Challenge BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world, is using PCF data exchange to reduce its Scope 3 emissions. This effort comes in parallel with halving its Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions between 1990 and 2018 and targeting an additional 25% reduction between 2018 and 2030, despite its targeted growth.Being a value-chain partner to almost all industries, BASF needed to address an important challenge to drive its Scope 3 emissions reduction: the lack of standard methodology and detailed guidelines to calculate and exchange PCF data at the most granular level consistently across different industry sectors, value chains and technology solutions. Solution This is why BASF decided to partner with the WBCSD and 60 other companies to develop the PACT Pathfinder Framework, which takes a cross-sectoral approach to helping organizations develop and exchange primary databased PCFs to enhance data reliability and consistency across industries and value chains. Importantly, the Pathfinder Framework builds on existing standards such as the ISO, the GHG Protocol and sectoral guidelines such as Together for Sustainability (TfS) for the chemical industry.Impact Since 2021, BASF has been onboarding suppliers in its Supplier CO2 Management Program and requesting primary PCF data. By using the Pathfinder framework, as well as partnering with TfS, BASF has been able to calculate and exchange primary PCF data for thousands of products, with hundreds of suppliers and customers. By the end of 2024, all of the most important suppliers will have been onboarded to supply PCF data. Building on the learnings from the pilot, BASF is working in close collaboration with PACT and TfS to scale this crossindustry programme. These activities will lower barriers to entry, upskill suppliers and improve the quality and consistency of the PCFs exchanged. As a result, improved PCF transparency will help to identify GHG reduction opportunities across the supply chain.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Chemicals
BASF - Contributing to reporting standards using PACT and TfS
Challenge According to the Capgemini Research Institute, 42% of consumers are interested in buying brands that concentrate on circular and sustainable practices. Instead of acting alone and competing on an important consumer concern, 71 small and large cosmetics and personal care companies, as well as professional associations from four continents, have joined forces to form the EcoBeautyScore Consortium, aiming to develop an industry-wide and global environmental impact assessment and scoring system for cosmetics products. The challenge is to propose, on each packaging, a score to inform consumers about the environmental footprint of the product.SolutionTo achieve this objective, the EBS Consortium created working groups with voluntary members to build on four pillars:A shared, scientific method for measuring environmental impacts throughout the life-cycle assessment of products, backed by the principles of the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)A shared database of the environmental impact of standard ingredients and raw materials, built using existing databases (e.g. Ecoinvent and Spice) and refined using members' dataA tool that enables assessment of the environmental impact of individual products, usable by non-experts. Members will be able to enter their product’s raw materials in the tool to compute carbon footprint, with results on the 16 criteria of the PEF A harmonized scoring system for consumersEBS has created collaboration among members of the industry and scientific experts and used legal bodies to ensure respect for anti-trust laws, and is helped by Capgemini to orchestrate the consortium. To facilitate decision-making, 18 full corporate members take part in bi-monthly technical working groups, while the whole consortium reunites every trimester for high-level follow-ups. However, each member of the consortium has the same voting weight, regardless of its size or level of involvement.ImpactThe focus in 2022 was on implementing governance and enabling members to collaboratively set the foundations of the methodologies developed by the consortium, while 2023 has been dedicated to testing those methodologies with actual data, at a large scale with a first tool prototype. The methodology, database, tool and scoring system are being verified by independent parties and made available to the industry.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Retail
The EcoBeautyScore Consortium - Aligning an industry to define common environmental standards
Challenge Siemens’ Electronics Works Chengdu (EWC), a World Economic Forum digital lighthouse, produces programmable logical controllers for the Chinese market. In parallel to its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality through a 93% reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, EWC has been seeking to drive Scope 3 reduction with suppliers through the exchange of PCF data. To this end, the factory needed to address an important challenge: identifying an approach that enables the exchange of PCF data in a trustworthy and confidential manner for all value-chain players. Solution EWC reached out to the ESTAINIUM non-profit association, of which Siemens is a founding member, to use its TSX (Trustworthy Supply Chain eXchange) connector and ensure transparency, verifiability and confidentiality in the exchange of PCF data with its suppliers.Through a decentralized ecosystem, the ESTAINIUM network offers an open, cross-industry approach for the creation and exchange of verifiable credentials and shared information among manufacturers, suppliers, customers and partners – with each partner maintaining sovereignty over its own data. Impact Using the ESTAINIUM network and Siemens’ carbon emission management tool, EWC gained transparency into raw-material emissions from local suppliers. For example, it could verify that one product’s total PCF was 122 kgCO2e, with 91% coming from parts suppliers. This granular transparency enabled the identification of the main emission contributor: the printed circuit board (PCB), accounting for approximately 50% of total emissions. The factory then undertook two actions to reduce those emissions: (1) drive joint initiatives with its suppliers to reduce the supply chain CO2e impact; and (2) redesign the product to reduce CO2e emissions, e.g. via raw material usage. Specifically for the PCB, these actions led to a 16% weight reduction and achieved 100% waste saving by removing disposable frames. The scaled impact resulted in a total CO2e reduction of ~2,000 metric tons/year. By using ESTAINIUM TSX technology, EWC was able to increase visibility within its value chain and uncover efficient decarbonization strategies, while ensuring verified accounting and secured sharing of PCF data.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Technology
Siemens and the ESTAINIUM Association - Using verified and secured PCF data exchange to drive Scope 3 reduction
Challenge Steel demand is expected to reach 2.3 billion metric tons by 2030, with an annual growth rate of 3%. In the automotive industry, only about 55% of the steel purchased by car manufacturers makes it into cars. Dual-mission sourcing (purchasing products that reduce both cost and carbon footprint) is becoming the new major challenge for procurement teams. However, the lack of availability of “green steel” – steel produced with low carbon emissions – can still hinder automotive OEMs in their sustainability strategies. Solution Volvo Trucks, in partnership with Swedish steel company SSAB, is developing vehicles built from fossil-free steel. The fossil-free steel is produced using neutral-carbon electricity (including biofuels) and hydrogen instead of by coking coal. Considering that, on average, 70% of a truck’s weight comes from steel and cast iron, the Volvo initiative is an important step in cutting the automotive industry’s emissions. In its car manufacturing, Volvo is also embedding circularity into its practices, using more recycled steel within SSAB’s nearzero- emission steel. Another circularity approach uses green hydrogen surplus produced by Volvo’s partner Ovako, an engineering steel manufacturer, to power the company’s fuel cell vehicles.Impact In June 2022, Volvo’s A30G became the first construction equipment built using fossil-free steel, nine months after the first concept vehicle was showcased. By partnering with broader industrial systems, Volvo and SSAB are pushing the decarbonization of the automotive value chain.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Automotive
Volvo Trucks – An OEM’s support in green steel innovation to reduce automotive carbon footprint
Challenge Adoption of circular economy practices in the aviation industry, which represents 3% of global emissions,50 is one of the most important steps to reaching net-zero targets for aerospace manufacturers. However, documentation analysis and inspection processes for aeroplane parts are often complex and time-consuming. This is a clear hurdle for optimizing the life cycle of aircraft and enabling better reuse, resale and recycling services for parts. Solution To meet this challenge, Capgemini and Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnered to develop LifeCycle Optimization for Aerospace with the support of the ADEME (French Agence de l’environnement et de la maîtrise de l’energie). The solution allows the processing of aircraft maintenance documentation to be automated using optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technologies. The tool digitizes all documents, even handwritten and non-structured ones. It then creates a database of parts’ maintenance history and analyses it with AI engines. The data is automatically checked and structured (by serial and part number) for use. This was tested with real-life data provided by Safran Landing Systems and Air France.Using this data enables operators to assess the repairability of a component, estimate its remaining lifetime in use and improve the part’s reuse. Upgrades of the platform will include materials identification and CO2 trade-off, enabling decision-makers to take strategic action on the circularity of parts. The programme envisions integration with airlines and OEMs’ information systems for decision support, emphasizing sustainability and efficiency. It could also be replicated in other sectors facing the same challenges. Impact The platform accelerates technical inspections at the end of an aircraft’s life or leasing, reducing analysis time by between 30% and 50% compared to expert operators’ manual analysis. A recent use of the platform enabled an airline to retrieve full traceability for 113 additional parts and increased the number of reusable parts by 15%. Reducing inspection time and increasing parts traceability simplifies the implementation of circularity measures, important in handling the 20% of worldwide fleets soon to be retired.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Aerospace
Aerospace Consortium with Capgemini and AWS – A collaborative platform for the aerospace circular economy
Challenge In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030. As part of the solution to achieve this across 100 countries and 700 buildings, Microsoft decided to integrate sustainability as a business investment into the accounting of each business unit across Scopes 1, 2 and 3. Solution To accelerate the transition to net zero, Microsoft introduced an internal carbon tax model in 2012 that initially focused on Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Since 2020, the carbon tax has been expanded to include Scope 3 emissions, and in parallel Microsoft has worked with suppliers to help them understand and reduce their carbon footprints. The carbon tax works by setting organizational carbon reduction targets for all business units. Carbon emissions are tracked and analysed across Microsoft’s operations and supply chain. An internal price on carbon is set annually in line with the company’s targets, and this is translated into a carbon fee that charges business units for their GHG emissions. All carbon taxes are collected into a fund that subsidizes investments in sustainable projects. Impact Through its internal carbon tax scheme, Microsoft has embedded a transformative approach to sustainability within its business units, leading to several important outcomes:Educated investment decisions: the carbon tax scheme has led to more informed and environmentally conscious decision-makingPrioritization of low-carbon investments and operating practices: by attaching a tangible cost to carbon emissions, the scheme allows participants to highlight priority areas for decarbonization and create incentives for progress in them. For example, since 2022, Microsoft has hardened its stance on business air travel by increasing the associated fee from $15 to $100 per metric ton of CO2 equivalentA shift in mindset across the organization to embrace sustainability as a strategic business investmentFeatured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Technology
Microsoft - An internal carbon tax to cut Scope 3 emissions
Challenge In its quest to minimize its environmental footprint, IKEA wanted to simplify sustainable choices for its customers, turning the complex concept of sustainability into an everyday habit. Solution IKEA is testing and developing new business models and circular services to enable its customers to extend the lifespan of their products through accessible solutions that motivate individuals to acquire, maintain and share them in sustainable, circular ways. The “Circular IKEA” initiative consists of several strands:Reuse: IKEA provides free spare parts so that its customers can easily replace a broken or lost part. A second-hand market allows customers to sell products they no longer need to IKEA, which will sell them to new customers.Refurbish: IKEA provides a restoration service for used and damaged products. The products are evaluated, cleaned, repaired, upgraded and recertified again, avoiding additional waste-to-landfill.Design for disassembly: IKEA is updating its products’ design to facilitate disassembly and reassembly, enabling customers to easily modify part of their equipment or even to store them efficiently. Ultimately, when the three circular strands are not possible, IKEA ensures recycling of its products – arranging transportation of waste in places where local infrastructure for recycling is not yet in place. Impact The circular initiative, augmented with effective communication, enabled IKEA to achieve substantial progress: the company offered more than 21 million assembly components to customers, allowing them to extend the life of 18 million IKEA items in 2021. Moreover, more than 9,500 products have been assessed for circularity and 17% of material was recycled in 2021. These initiatives helped to reduce emissions from product use at home by 45% and emissions from product end of life by 7% compared to 2016.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Retail
IKEA - Making green choices easier for consumers
Challenge The apparel industry is responsible for as much as 6.7% of the global GHG emitted in the world. Circularity is an important area of focus, as approximatively 85% of clothing ends up in landfills or incinerated each year. Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company, wanted not only to drastically reduce its emissions but also to shift the paradigm and change the mentality of its business, employees and customers towards more sustainable lifestyles. Solution Patagonia has engaged in several initiatives to put sustainability at the heart of its business. First, in 2012, Patagonia became the first “benefit corporation”, prioritizing environmental and social concerns over turnover. In 2022, the company announced “going purpose” instead of “going public”. By transferring all assets to two legal entities, the owners ensured that every earning not reinvested into Patagonia would be paid as a dividend to a fund dedicated to financing environmental projects. Patagonia also fosters a sustainability mindset within its people. Its Environmental Internship Program enables employees to take up to two months off work to engage in a fully paid internship for an environmental organization. Finally, the company focuses on changing consumers’ mindset. Its “Worn Wear” programme acts as an incentive to share responsibility by extending the lifespan of clothes. This initiative offers awareness and support for conscientious product maintenance, repair, reuse, resale and responsible end of life disposal. Impact Patagonia’s cultural shift strategy is already reaping rewards. Through its “going purpose” approach, it expects to pay out around $100 million of annual dividend to sustainable projects. Its employee turnover is less than 4%, much lower than the industry average, and more than 1,000 employees have taken part in the Environmental Internship Program. This enabled the company to gain valuable sustainability insights, change internal mindsets and develop stronger relationships with sustainable organizations. Finally, Patagonia’s circularity and consumer awareness strategy allowed it to extend the life of clothing by nine months. This reduced carbon, waste and water footprints by approximately 20–30% each. The company also resold more than 120,000 repurposed items, significantly cutting down on waste and emissions.Featured in our paper "The “No-Excuse” Opportunities to Tackle Scope 3 Emissions in Manufacturing and Value Chains"
Retail
Patagonia - Sparking the sustainability cultural shift at every level
ChallengeAgilent Technologies officially committed to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. Scope 3 is by far the company’s greatest source of greenhouse gas emissions (over 90%). To tackle those emissions, Agilent highlighted that continued engagement with suppliers is key, helping them understand the importance of collaborating to jointly achieve their goals, and learning from those ahead. Solution: Engaging Our Suppliers on Net ZeroAgilent is prioritizing the top strategic suppliers with the highest GHG emissions, suppliers with lower ESG performance ratings followed by all other suppliers to jointly reduce overall emissions. All suppliers have been communicated with Agilent’s commitment as part of our FY24 Supplier Code of Conduct and will be embedding key criteria of environmental and sustainability requirements within all Agilent’s procurement processes. The company enables this through knowledge forums and supplier roundtable sessions during which they share their commitments, understand where their suppliers stand and discuss quick wins as well as long-term decarbonization strategy while demonstrating progress. Agilent is also committed to sharing valuable and publicly available resources with their suppliers, especially SMEs. Moreover, the company tracks its suppliers’ progress through a yearly carbon emission questionnaire to guide risk management and mitigation plan development as part of its supply chain strategy. Additionally, the company spearheads other Scope 3 initiatives, such as the shift from rapid air delivery to monthly ocean shipments. It adopts a yearly green logistics program involving procurement teams negotiating with suppliers to reduce frequency and mode of shipments to manage cost and reduce carbon emissions through transportation. Another approach involves Agilent’s Design for Environment initiative, guidelines documentation used to ensure all the different areas related to sustainable product development are covered, including the ones with important Scope 3 impacts: end-of-life management, materials, packaging, transportation, etc.ImpactSince the launch of the program in 2023, Agilent has collected a 75% response rate for the carbon emission questionnaire in less than a year, as data is important to drive decisions and prioritize engagement. As Agilent matures its supplier management program, emission requirements will be embedded into the procurement processes with training programs for the procurement team to engage with all suppliers.
Health
Agilent Technologies - Scope 3 emissions abatement strategy through supplier engagement, design for environment and green logistics
The Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) of WBCSD brings together stakeholders from across industries and organizations to jointly tackle the carbon emission reduction transparency and accountability challenge.It aims at unlocking decarbonization through real emissions transparency in supply chains. Its mission is to establish the global methodology and technical infrastructure for accurate, primary and verified GHG emission data exchange and measurement.PACT focuses first on Cradle-to-Gate data including all upstream activities.It is an initiative funded by the WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) with a wide range of partners from climate coalitions and campaigns to supply chain actors, policy makers, technology players, auditors, etc.PACT has 3 main areas of work:Methodology: ensuring consistent calculation and exchange of product-level primary emissions data – building on GHG Protocol Technological network enabling confidential and secure exchange of verified emissions dataEcosystem: creating alignment across value chains and industries and key stakeholders in decarbonization space Members include policy makers, academia, technology players, auditors, supply chain actors, other initiatives, investors, etc,
Other
PACT (The Partnership for Carbon Transparency) - Carbon emission reduction transparency and accountability
Glass futures Is a UK-based yet globally reaching non-profit researching the production of more sustainable glass.Glass Futures is working with the global glass industry and the supply chain to develop the technologies to revolutionise glass manufacturing.Glass Futures provides:R&D technical adviceInnovation FundingNetworkingTraining and DevelopmentProjects of key interest include:Development of alternative fuel technologiesRobotic operations and automationHeat recovery, abatement and CCUS demonstrationsSecondary raw materials for a circular economyRaw material and cullet processing technologyNew compositions and treatmentsIndustry 4.0 applicationsNext generation refractoriesInspection equipment and sensorsGlass Futures is creating a Global Centre of Excellence to make glass the low carbon material of choice, including a new glassmaking Pilot Plant facility in St Helens, United Kingdom, to provide a Global Centre of Excellence for sustainable manufacture of glass.The centre of excellence tackles projects such as: Development of alternative fuel technologies, robotic operations and automation, heat recovery, abatement and CCUS demonstrations, secondary raw materials for a circular economy, raw material and cullet processing technology, new compositions and treatments, industry 4.0 applications, next generation refractories, inspection equipment and sensors.Additionally, it conducts R&D for the global glass sector. Innovations include:Industrial Fuel SwitchingDeployment of End-to-End Process (DEEP) ControlTransforming Foundation Industries Fast Start projects (UKRI): EnviroAsh, BOS Slag, PowerCO2, Catalytic Conversion of Methane to HydrogenGlass futures has approximately 85 members, to name a few - Bormioli pharma, British glass, calumite, Diageo, Enciric, Guardian glass, Heineken, Magma, NSG, RHI Magnesita, Siemens…
Materials
Glass Futures - A non-profit researching the production of more sustainable glass
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) is a private, technical consortium of industry peers across the manufacturing, healthcare, and recycling industries seeking to improve the recyclability of plastic products and packaging within healthcare. Founded in 2010, and made up of globally recognized members, HPRC engages in pioneering projects.HPRC is a private, technical consortium of industry peers across the manufacturing, healthcare, and recycling industries.The main objectives of Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council are:Improve the recyclability of plastic products and packaging within healthcare. Help boost plastics recycling efforts in clinical settings of hospitals.Its main projects include:Advanced Recycling Research (White Paper, Pilot & Scale Up with hospitals)Design Guidance (guidance document for manufacturers that articulates design considerations which enhance the recycling potential and value of the final product or packaging)HospiCycle (step-by-step approach, this guide is intended to help hospitals navigate the process of activating a plastics recycling program from initial planning and business decisions through program implementation and improvement considerations)Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council has 29 Members: Braun, Baxter, Amcor, BD, Boston scientific, Dow, Eastman, Freepoint ecosystems, Medtronic, Nelipack, Nexus, Purecycle are some of the members
Health
Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council - Improving the recyclability of plastic products and packaging within healthcare
The SME Climate Hub is a non-profit global initiative that empowers small to medium sized companies to take climate action and build resilient businesses for the future.The SME climate hub Initiative has been founded by the following partners: We Mean Business Coalition (NGOs), Exponential Roadmap Initiative (NGO), The International Chamber of Commerce, The United Nations Race to Zero campaign and Normative (Software).The objective of SME climate hub is to ensure companies that commit to this initiative need to halve emissions by 2030, achieve net zero by 2050There are 3 steps to take once you are part of the SME climate HubSee where you stand: Measure your own emissions and understand the tools available to help you reduce themPublicly commit: to halve emissions before 2030; to cut emissions to zero before 2050; to share progress on a yearly basisTake action: unlock your personalized resources & incentivesThe climate hub aims to provide tools to small and medium sized companies to take climate action and build resilient businesses for the future through:An educational courseA carbon emissions reporting frameworkA carbon calculatorA financial support guide specifically designed to help small businesses more seamlessly mitigate their environmental impactAs of now, over 400 companies have committed to the SME climate hub.
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SME Climate Hub - Empowering small to medium sized companies to take climate action
The GLEC drives widespread, transparent, and consistent calculation and reporting of logistics GHG emissions.GLEC has grown into a voluntary partnership of more than 150 companies, industry associations, programs, experts and other organizations.The Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC), led by Smart Freight Centre, is a group of companies, associations and programs, and backed by leading experts and other stakeholders. Since its inception in 2014, GLEC developed a universal method for calculating logistics emissions across road, rail, air, sea, inland waterways and transhipment centers. The “GLEC Framework for Logistics Emissions Methodologies” combines existing methods into one framework and fills the gaps for shippers, carriers and logistics service providers on how to report emissions from logistics operations.GLEC members include Its members include well-known companies such as SNCF, DB Schenker, Deutsche post DHL, DSV, Heineken, HP, Kuehne Nagel, Maersk, Nestle, Pepsico, ALDI, DOW, ASSTRA, Carbonleap, Cargill, P&G, Scania.
Supply Chain & Transportation
GLEC (Global Logistics Emissions Council) - A framework for transparent and consistent calculation and reporting of logistics GHG emissions
CSI - Cement Sustainability Initiative is a partnership between the WBCSD and the GCCA to facilitate sustainable development of the cement and concrete sectors and their value chains.The purpose of the CSI is to:Explore what sustainable development means for the cement industry;Identify actions and facilitate steps cement companies can take, individually and as a group, to accelerate progress toward sustainable development;Provide a framework for other cement companies to become involved;Create the content and context for further stakeholder engagement.The Initiative addresses 8 major topics that have been shaping the cement industry's path toward a more sustainable future over the following 20 years:Resource productivity: Improving eco-efficiency through improved practices in quarrying, energy use and waste recovery and reuse;Climate protection: Understanding and managing CO2 emissions;Emission reduction: Reducing dust from quarrying, NOx, SOx, and other airborne pollutants from cement manufacture;Ecological stewardship: Improving land-use and landscape management practices;Employee well-being: Managing and improving employee health, safety and satisfaction;Community well-being: Working more effectively with local communities;Regional development: Participating in regional affairs;Shareholder value: Creating more value for shareholder research.The CSI includes 24 major cement producers with operations in more than 100 countries. It addresses cement companies & their value chains. The CSI counts amongst its members: Argos, Intercement, CNBM, SECIL, Dalmia, Orient Cement, SCG, Shree cement, Aditya birla ultratech cement and others.
Materials
CSI (Cement Sustainability Initiative) - Sustainable development of the cement and concrete sectors and their value chains

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