Get to know a top scope 3 category: Category 1: Purchased Goods & Services
May 29, 2024 • 3Degrees Staff

Download our sector-specific guide to learn why Category 1 ranks among the highest scope 3 emissions sources for organizations across all sectors. 

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May 20, 2024 • 3Degrees Staff

Is your supplier engagement program action-oriented? Does it inspire your suppliers to take an action that reduces their emissions, right now? If not, you are not alone. Most supplier programs are more circumspect – they ask suppliers to consider interim steps: set a goal, calculate a footprint, or even, attend a webinar! Engaging suppliers directly […]

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December 21, 2023 • Lauren Tatsuno

The climate action journey is long, and luckily numerous companies have already gotten started. Many are taking steps to address their scope 2 electricity emissions through implementing energy efficiency, purchasing energy attribute certificates (EACs), executing power purchase agreements (PPAs), or other measures. While that’s a great start, most organizations’ scope 3, or indirect emissions, make […]

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Steps for coaching your suppliers on climate action
December 15, 2023 • Madison Haas

One of the more difficult places to make meaningful reductions is in scope 3, not just because of its size, but also due in part to the emissions falling outside of an organization’s direct control. However, organizations that collaborate with their suppliers will be in a stronger position to implement successful value chain interventions and […]

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September 12, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

The need for companies to understand the emissions footprint of their value chain is becoming standard practice, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to do. To best account for the opportunities and risks associated with your scope 3 emissions, organizations need to understand both their value chain’s effect on climate change and the possible effects […]

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August 4, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

An increasing number of companies are setting science-based targets using criteria set out in the Science-Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) Net-Zero Corporate Standard. One criterion is that companies must set near-term targets on their path to net zero – and if scope 3 emissions make up 40% or more of a company’s total footprint, a near-term […]

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July 27, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

As a global climate solutions provider, 3Degrees helps organizations achieve renewable energy and decarbonization goals. With a full suite of solutions for addressing emissions of all scopes, their climate consultancy team partnered with Sweep to offer clients a carbon management software solution.  This partnership strengthens 3Degrees’ goal setting, greenhouse gas (GHG) footprinting, carbon credit strategy, […]

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June 27, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

Learn how 3Degrees helped build an emissions roadmap for a Consumer Goods Company on its journey to reaching near-term targets by 2030.

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May 24, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

Three years ago, a cohort of 3Degrees employees prepared to travel to Singapore for the inaugural Renewable Energy Markets (REM) Asia conference – a welcome expansion of the REM conferences that have been hosted by Center for Resource Solutions in the United States for over twenty-five years. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference […]

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April 3, 2023 • 3Degrees Staff

At the beginning of March, we travelled to London to take part in edie 23, a thought-leadership event for industry and sustainability leaders. It was inspiring to see the commitment of the attendees and speakers throughout the sessions as they discussed net zero strategy, policy changes, data reporting and more.  We consolidated numerous insightful discussions […]

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December 6, 2022 • Elizabeth Geller

At nearly every conference that we have attended this year, our teams have heard about the complexities surrounding quantifying and addressing supply chain emissions. As we know supply chain emissions account for the lion’s share of a company’s total emissions (upwards of 90% in some cases), it was satisfying to attend an entire conference devoted […]

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