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For many companies, some of their greatest sustainability impacts reside within their value chain. Embedding sustainability across your planning; sourcing and procurement; supply chain, production, and logistics; and customer use and recovery can feel overwhelming. This set of resources helps you understand the portfolio of practices that you can employ, reflect on your own maturity, and identify opportunities to drive positive change across your value chain.
Resources to embed sustainability across your procurement lifecycle:
Our Sustainable Procurement Wheel helps companies to embed sustainability across their procurement and supply chain practices.
Based on research with leading companies, we have identified key practices and curated a selection of the most relevant resources and tools to help you implement them. The inner wheel follows the procurement lifecycle and the outer wheel looks at broader practices supporting change.
Resources to get started on reducing your Scope 3 emissions:
A guide for leaders of companies of all sizes to understand the basics of Scope 3 emissions and how companies should begin to take credible action. The guidance is anchored in the real-world experience of companies that are already navigating this journey.
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 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.
Help your organisation to understand life cycle thinking:
This guide explains how life cycle thinking and mapping help you identify and better understand the potential impacts of your products and services on people and the environment. By exploring environmental and social impacts from your raw materials, through manufacturing and distribution, to customer use, and end of life, you can identify hot spots and leverage points to take action on.
Learn more about how StemCell Technologies used our guide to identify actual, potential, and external levers to improve product development.
Help your suppliers to get started on sustainable procurement:
Companies are recognizing that the goods and services they buy contribute to their environmental and social footprint, often quite significantly. This tip sheet focuses on helping you to improve the sustainability outcomes of your company’s buying decisions and improve the impact your company has on the environment and on communities.
Every company, including a small or mid-sized enterprise (SME), has an obligation to respect human rights. This includes when you are buying goods and services. This guide explains how to assess possible human rights impacts in your supply chain and steps your company can take to prevent or mitigate them.
Explore our guidance and resources: