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Collaborating for Value Chain Decarbonisation

With the urgent need to reduce global emissions, rapid decarbonisation of our economy is essential, and the key is collaboration across the value chain. Our new guide provides practical advice and examples to help companies support their supply chain partners to decarbonise.

You'll find advice on how companies are prompting, influencing, supporting, and investing in their value chain and resources and ideas for how to support six key decarbonisation pathways: renewable energy adoption; energy efficiency and conservation; logistics; materials stewardship and waste; lower-impact agriculture and land-use; and carbon removal.

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

The late Donella Meadows identified twelve leverage points for effecting change in a system - in other words, places where a "small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything." This resource will help you to understand and identify these leverage points so that you can readily act upon them.

Leverage Points: A Guide for Systems Innovators

This guide by the Si Network provides a detailed and engaging overview of how to use leverage points for systems change. It will introduce leverage points and a set of approaches to guide your application of them. These approaches are: ‘systems aikido,’ ‘systems acupuncture,’ and ‘system gardening.’

INSIDER: Systems Mapping — A Vital Ingredient for Successful Partnerships,

This article by WRI makes the case that systems mapping is essential for collective action. It can help you and your collaborators understand your value chain as a system and how to align your value chain strategies. It includes a list of relevant tools and practical examples.

The Breakthrough Effect: How to Trigger A Cascade of Tipping Points to Accelerate The Net Zero Transition

This report by Systemiq, University of Exeter, and Simon Sharpe identifies three low-cost interventions that could trigger feedback loops leading to decarbonisation at scale. These tipping points are expected to have cascading impacts across ten sectors responsible for 70% of global emissions.

A Time for Transformative Partnerships: How Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Can Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This report by WRI examines how partnerships can help companies address the SDGs through transformative change. Based on a study of 41 partnerships, it distils 14 general success factors and four common factors found in the most transformative ones.

Collaborative Transformation: The art of making international trade more sustainable

A short eBook by IDH that shares ten years of first-hand experience in using collaborative transformation to enable sustainability transitions within global value chains, covering five key dimensions and examples from commodity industries.