Strategies for a Sustainable Future: Successfully Decarbonizing Your Business

Our Expertise

1. Identify your main emission sources (“hot spots”) along the value chain (using the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for Scopes 1, 2, and 3).
2. Conduct emissions workshops to prioritize your most important commodity groups, suppliers, business areas, and areas of action.
3. Define your greenhouse gas emission data model and calculation logic (“CO2 baselining”): as the project progresses, we take an “iterative path” from expenditure-based secondary data (hot spot assessment) to company-specific primary data.

Your Benefits

• Confidence: this will give you certainty about carbon hot spots in your supply chain, as well as data transparency. That, in turn, will allow you to prepare properly for the coming demands of different stakeholders.
• Ensure competitiveness: good carbon accounting gives you transparency about carbon emissions, as well as an accurate idea of your future costs.
• Information advantage: integrating robust carbon data helps you not only in your reporting, but also when it comes to making decisions in procurement and top management.
   

Our Expertise

1. Define decarbonization targets and baseline. What is important is that defined targets correspond with specific regulations, such as those of the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi).
2. Derive custom decarbonization measures.
3. Develop decarbonization strategy and roadmap.

Your Benefits

• Value enhancement: you concentrate on the “right” action areas and suppliers, because your decarbonization strategy and roadmap pursue only those targets that contribute to achieving your sustainability goals.
• Compliance: make an active contribution to safeguarding future generations’ quality of life by observing ecological standards and regulations. This helps you safeguard your social “license to operate”.
• Reputation: enhance your company’s reputation through a strategic approach to decarbonization that delivers visible results and clearly demonstrates your value proposition to internal and external stakeholders

Our Expertise

We will launch pilot and lighthouse projects together with you, so that you can move quickly to operative implementation. These will either deliver “quick wins” or serve as blueprints for a Group-wide roll-out. We look at prioritized commodity groups, suppliers, and business areas while establishing a reporting structure and governance processes. That’s how we get your decarbonization path off to the best possible start and pave the way for demonstrably low-carbon supply chains. The final step therefore involves the following:

1. Execute emission reduction projects (such as material and waste reduction, transportation optimization, and circular economy).
2. Roll out emissions reduction initiatives with strategic partners and suppliers.
3. Establish impact management/controlling and reporting structure.

Your Benefits

• Ensure competitiveness: realize and implement your sustainability ambitions to ensure long-term competitiveness for your business in an increasingly regulated business environment.
• Value enhancement: combine emissions-related and economic aspects through targeted initiatives. This gives you twice the added value within your company.
• Secure your supply lines and make your business resilient: you can make your business processes future-proof and resilient by deploying holistic carbon management and targeted decarbonization measures.