Accelerating collaborative Scope 3 action to meet near-term climate goals
Practical pathways for food and beverage leaders to de-risk supply chain decarbonization, align incentives, and scale scope 3 impact.
Engage your supply chain in your scope 3 decarbonization strategy.
Find five actionable strategies to transform your supplier relationships in our latest guide.
For food and beverage companies, upstream supply chain emissions represent the vast majority of total carbon footprint—and the hardest challenge to solve. While 60% of North American food and beverage brands are making progress on direct (scope 1 and 2) emissions, only 44% of those with SBTi-validated targets are showing meaningful reductions in scope 3.
Complex agricultural supply chains, multi-tier procurement, and limited physical traceability make traditional, isolated corporate approaches insufficient. To achieve near-term climate targets and build long-term supply chain resilience, organizations must shift from top-down scope 3 strategies to collaborative, shared-value climate action across the whole of the value chain.
In this joint industry report, 3Degrees and SustainCERT explore actionable strategies and emerging market frameworks designed to help sustainability leaders scale scope 3 ambition into verified impact.
What You’ll Learn in This Report:
- Strategic Collaboration & Co-Investment: How pooling capital across value chain partners lowers individual financial risk and enables credible co-claiming of emissions reductions.
- Market-Based Instruments (MBIs): How evolving standards from SBTi and the GHG Protocol allow companies to incentivize and claim impact in complex, blended supply chains.
- Digital MRV Innovation: How integrated digital infrastructure streamlines data collection, eliminates double counting, and reduces the administrative burden on farmers and suppliers.
- Real-world Case Studies: Industry examples illustrating collaborative decarbonization in action, including on-farm dairy emissions reductions, targeted nitrous oxide abatement in fertilizer manufacturing via a multi-company buyers alliance, and the execution of a landmark multi-buyer power purchase agreement to scale renewable energy across shared supply webs.
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