There’s an article in Industry Week as identified by the WRI that does a great job of describing some of the challenges and opportunities in measuring and managing the Scope 3 emissions from the logistics component of a business’s supply chain.

The method and system used by CarbonCounted can address many of these challenges and provides what we believe are significant benefits:

1. Logistics businesses can do their GHG inventory and then publish their transportation emissions, such as tonne*avg km, once and in one spot.  There’s no need to respond uniquely and directly to all incoming inquiries from customers when it comes to your product carbon footprint(s).
2. The same logistics business can also work with their selected consulting firm (or independently) to submit their data to the CDP or other registries.
3. The same logistics business can also link to their supply chain so that the full chain through to their customers is linked and “live”.
4. Businesses can “shop” in the system for lower Scope 3 emission logistics businesses.  This drives emission reductions through competition, and not taxes/regulations.
5. When the logistics businesses makes changes to their operations to reduce their emissions, the reduction is automatically passed on to their customers.  Likewise, if their suppliers find reductions, it will link and pass through in the same manner.
6. The logistics business can work together with other businesses in their industry to compare averages and identify best practices.

Please contact us if you are interested in how CarbonCounted can help your business capture Scope 3 emissions from your supply chain, or if you would like to become part of our program and provide emission data to your customers.