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Setting a Long-Term Sustainability Vision

This briefing note from the Conference Board of Canada examines leading companies' approach to setting long-term sustainability visions. It offers value chain applicable insights on envisioning desirable future states and how they will be achieved.

Embedded Strategies for the Sustainability Transition

This guide from the Embedding Project outlines how to take a new approach to corporate strategy.

Prioritise: The section on prioritisation (Pages 36-39) can be applied to procurement. It will help you to determine which sustainability issues are most strategically relevant to your value chain.

Commit: There are two sections relevant to making commitments. First, the Acknowledge section on pages 35-36. It explains how to write effective position statements. Second, the Set Goals section on pages 37-45 describes how to set credible goals.

Setting Strong Sustainability Goals

This article from the Embedding Project offers a clear explanation of how to set a credible goal that answers the question, what is enough? It covers the seven essential qualities every goal needs to be transparent and effective.

Addressing Scope 3: A Start Here Guide

This guide by the Embedding Project outlines the basics of Scope 3 and how to take credible action.

Identify Impacts: The section on Scope 3 Inventories (pages 22-28) provides guidance on mapping your value chain and conducting your first scope 3 inventory to understand your impacts.

Commit: The section on setting Scope 3 targets (pages 33-35) outlines how to set credible goals that support emissions reductions in your value chain.

Measure: The Data Management and Governance section (pages 28-32) offers insights on how to collect better Scope 3 information from suppliers to measure progress.

Sustainability Goals Database

Are you designing new goals or interested in benchmarking your goals against leading practice? To help advance progress in setting credible goals, we will maintain a public goals database containing leading sustainability goals and commitments set by large companies globally. Search by issue, company, industry, goal type, or SDG target.

If you are aware of goals that take a credible approach that should be featured in our database, please let us know.

Developing Position Statements on Sustainability Issues

There is growing pressure among companies to link social and environmental limits to corporate strategy and goal-setting. However, the result is often a lengthy document that fails to make strategic connections between specific issues and their implications on business decision-making. We developed this guidebook to help you articulate a concise and transparent board level position on key environmental, social, and governance issues. Drawing upon in-depth analyses of over 4,000 board position statements; over 200 interviews with CEOs, directors, and board chairs; and concepts outlined in our series on the Road to Context, this guidebook provides a checklist for crafting a contextual board position statement and includes examples from a range of industries and global settings.

The 1.5°C Supplier Engagement Guide

The Exponential Roadmap Initiative aims to bring together innovators and disruptors taking transformative action to reduce emissions in line with the target to limit global heating to 1.5°C.

Support Suppliers (SRM): This guide focuses on how to engage suppliers to accelerate exponential climate action. It is based on best practice and aligned with UN Race to Zero.

Commit: This guide also includes a section on publicly committing to a 1.5°C Supplier target, outlining the why, what, and how, and provides several example commitments.

[PUBLIC] The Procura+ Manual: A Guide to Implementing Sustainable Procurement: Chapter II

This guide by Procura+ provides key insights on implementing sustainable procurement.

Support the Strategy: Section 2.1 provides details on how to build the case for sustainable procurement and section 2.2 covers how to gather the necessary internal support to make sustainability procurement successful.

Commit: Section 2.3: the Procura + Management Cycle, covers sustainable target setting in procurement on pages 28 to 40.

Future-Fit Action Guide: Procurement safeguards the pursuit of future-fitness

This action guide from Future-Fit offers specific guidance on how to reduce - and potentially eliminate - the negative impacts that your procurement strategy, practices, and goal may be having on the surrounding systems on which it depends. This guide will help you to understand what a future-fit procurement goal looks like; how to get started in pursuing future-fitness; how to assess to your progress within the appropriate context; and how to provide assurance through effective and detailed disclosure.

Aligning Corporate Value Chains to Global Climate Goals

This comprehensive paper from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) can help you to understanding the challenges and opportunities with Scope 3 target setting. It explains the importance of Scope 3 target setting, outlines the challenges in setting and implementing Scope 3 targets, and assesses current Scope 3 target setting practices. It also explores the role of certification in addressing value chain emissions and provides a five-step approach for operationalising the proposed framework for managing value chain emissions towards net-zero transformation.

The Supplier Cascade: A Practical Approach to Accelerating Supply Chain Decarbonization

This resource from the We Mean Business Coalition is designed to help you reduce Scope 3 emissions by cascading climate targets down your value chain.

Building the case for in-value chain action on carbon dioxide removal

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will need to scale at least four-fold to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. And companies will need to mitigate residual emission to reach net zero targets. This publication from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) explains how companies can invest in CDR in their value chains to meet net zero targets.