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Actions to Reduce Scope 3 Emissions
1. Purchased goods and services
- Replace high-GHG-emitting raw materials with low-GHG-emitting raw materials
- Implement low-GHG-procurement/purchasing policies
- Encourage tier 1 suppliers to engage their tier 1 suppliers (i.e., the reporting company’s tier 2 suppliers) and disclose these scope 3 emissions to the customer in order to propagate GHG reporting throughout the value chain
2. Capital goods
- Replace high-GHG-emitting capital goods with low-GHG-emitting capital goods
3. Fuel and energy related activities (not included in scope 1 or scope 2)
- Reduce energy consumption
- Change energy source (e.g., shift toward lower-emitting fuel/energy sources)
- Generate energy on site using renewable sources
4. Upstream transportation and distribution
- Reduce distance between supplier and customer
- Source materials locally if it leads to net GHG reductions
- Optimize efficiency of transportation and distribution
- Replace higher-emitting transportation modes (e.g. air transport) with lower emitting transportation modes (e.g. marine transport)
- Increase Biofuel mix
- Electric Vehicles
5. Waste generated in operations
- Reduce quantity of waste generated in operations
- Implement recycling measures that lead to net GHG reductions
- Implement lower-emitting waste treatment methods
6. Business travel
- Reduce the amount of business travel (e.g., encourage video conferencing and web-based meetings as an alternative to in-person meetings)
- Encourage more efficient travel
- Encourage lower-emitting modes of travel (e.g., rail instead of plane)
7. Employee commuting
- Reduce commuting distance (e.g., locate offices/facilities near urban centers and public transit facilities)
- Create disincentives for commuting by car (e.g., parking policies)
- Provide incentives for use of public transit, bicycling, carpooling, etc.
- Implement teleworking/telecommuting programs
- Reduce number of days worked per week (e.g., 4 days x 10 hour schedule instead of 5 days x 8 hour schedule)
8. Upstream leased assets
- Increase energy efficiency of operations
- Shift toward lower-emitting fuel sources
9. Transportation and distribution of sold products
- Reduce distance between supplier and customer
- Optimize efficiency of transportation and distribution
- Replace higher emitting transportation modes (e.g. air transport) with lower emitting transportation modes (e.g. marine transport)
- Shift toward lower-emitting fuel sources
10. Processing of sold products
- Improve efficiency of processing
- Redesign products to reduce processing required
- Use lower-GHG energy sources
11. Use of sold products
- Develop new low- or zero-emitting products
- Increase the energy efficiency of energy-consuming goods or eliminate the need for energy use
- Shift away from products that contain or emit GHGs
- Reduce the quantity of GHGs contained/released by products
- Decrease the use-phase GHG intensity of the reporting company’s entire product portfolio
- Change the user instructions to promote efficient use of products
12. End-of-life treatment of sold products
- Make products recyclable if it leads to net GHG reductions
- Implement product packaging measures that lead to net GHG reductions (e.g., decrease amount of packaging in sold products, develop new GHG-saving packaging materials, etc.)
- Implement recycling measures that lead to net GHG reductions
13. Downstream leased assets
- Increase energy efficiency of operations
- Shift toward lower-emitting fuel sources
14. Franchises
- Increase energy efficiency of operations (e.g., set efficiency standards)
- Shift toward lower-emitting fuel sources
15. Investments
- Invest in lower-emitting investments, technologies, and projects