BEST PRACTICE METHODOLOGIES FOR SCOPE 3
CARBON ACCOUNTING IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
December 7th 2009, London
Develop a Consistent Approach to Collaborating With Suppliers on Accounting and Reporting Scope 3 Emissions Data
| 08.15 |
Coffee and Registration |
| 08.45 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
| UNDERSTANDING THE COMMERCIAL & POLICY DRIVERS FOR SCOPE 3 CARBON ACCOUNTING: WHAT DO STAKEHOLDERS WANT AND HOW DOES THIS TRANSLATE TO THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BUSINESS? |
| 09:00 |
Opening Panel: Quantifying The Specific Business Benefits of Reporting Your Scope 3 Carbon Emissions What Are The Incentives? What Will Reporting Scope 3 Do For Your Business? |
- Grasping an understanding on why Carbon Emissions should be reported.
- Understanding the business benefits of reporting emissions to your business.
- Appreciating the need for Scope 3 Emission accounting in the future.
- Gaining knowledge on the business perspective on Scope 3 and why it is necessary to account for it.
- Recognise reasons behind the drivers for business and why they pro-actively account for their carbon emissions.
- Realising how Scope 3 can increase focus within the business.
- Understanding the corporate goals that drive scope 3 carbon accounting.
- Understand the long-term incentives of Scope 3 accounting.
- How investors see Scope 3:
- How investors are influenced by businesses that are actively reporting their Scope 3 Emissions.
- Contribution from investors on their views to Scope 3 Accounting
- Understanding how decisions are affected by Scope 3 Emissions.
- Discussing Scope 3 Emissions accounting as an ethical investment
Nigel Marsh, Company Head Of Environmental Management And Assurance, ROLLS ROYCE
Rory Sullivan, Head Of Responsible Investment, INSIGHT INVESTMENT
Mark Williams, Business Strategy And Climate Change Manager, SCOTTISH WATER
| 9.40 |
Extended Questions & Discussion |
| 10.00 |
Legislative & Policy Frameworks For Promoting Scope 3 Carbon Accounting Standardization What Guidance Does The Government Provide? |
- Government and Regulatory Panel:
- Presenting the latest changes in government and regulatory guidance.
- Discussing the need for a common method for Scope 3 Accounting.
- Explanation of the current standards for different industries.
- Explanation of changes to Government guidance, legislation and policy framework.
- Discussing cross industry standardised approach to scope 3 carbon accounting, that can be widely agreed upon and certified between industries.
William Brocklehurst, Senior Policy Advisor For Climate Change, CBI
Sue Whitehead, Team leader, Changing Business Behaviours, DEFRA
| 10.40 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 11.00 |
Networking Coffee Break |
| TRACKING YOUR PROGRESS ON DATA COLLECTION AND ENGAGING AND MANAGING THE SUPPLY CHAIN ON SCOPE 3 – LEARNING FROM REAL WORLD EXPERIENCES |
| 11.30 |
Cross Industry Panel: How to Handle the Complexities of Scope 3 Carbon Emissions |
What should you consider part of your Scope 3 Emissions? How do you gather the information?
- Explanation of the tools and techniques used to calculate Scope 3 Emissions.
- Gain an understanding as to how to implement these tools and techniques into your own business.
- Defining the boundaries in accounting for Scope 3 Emissions.
- Explaining of the tools and techniques used to calculate Scope 3 Emissions.
- How to implement these tools and techniques into your own businesses.
- Understanding what is included in scope 3 emissions. What to include and what to exclude.
- Consider how companies are gathering this crucial information from their suppliers within complex supply chains.
- Examining how scope 3 is calculated at multiple tiers.
- Evaluating the issues, limitations and difficulties with the calculations of scope 3 emissions.
- Looking at scope 3 across differing sectors and industries.
Carmel McQuaid, Climate Change Manager, MARKS AND SPENCER
Patric Bulmer, Head Of Environment, BRISTOL WATER
John Gilbert, Head Of Carbon Management, THAMES WATER
Facilitated By: Dr. Keith Maclean, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY
| 12.30 |
Identifying Key Suppliers for Scope 3 Emissions in The Supply Chain |
How To Implement The Methods And Techniques And Tailor Them To Your Business Model
- Where to start?
- Explanation of methods currently used, and those recently updated.
- Understanding how to integrate scope 3 reporting into your supply chain.
- Explanation of the specific tools used.
- How the methods have been updated to suit their business.
- How methods have been changed for accuracy
- Explaining the processes involved
- Discussing difficulties faced.
- The impact the reporting had to the business.
- Engaging with suppliers upstream and downstream the supply chain
- Explanations of standards in different industries.
- Practical ideas of how to approach companies regarding their scope 1 & 2 – potentially your scope 3.
- Establishing your current suppliers’ level of reporting and understanding their decision making process.
Winsome MacLaurin, Chief Executive, THE ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
| 13.10 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 14.30 |
Examining The Boundaries to Consider with Scope 3 Accounting |
Assessing Scope 3 Boundaries And How They Affect Practical Calculations.
- Assessing the level of detail required in reporting the data.
- Understanding how to report the data in a meaningful way
- Case study into a different sectors’ scope 3 reports.
- Understanding how to look into scope 3 across sectors
- Explaining over how many tiers they examined and reasons behind this.
- Analysing how points of view regarding scope 3 differ across sectors.
- How to look at scope 3 accounting from a product angle and a business angle:
- Understanding where your company is in terms of your scope 3 from a business angle
- Understanding how the product is affected by its’ scope 3 emissions.
James Pitcher, Climate Change Co-ordination, LONDON UNDERGROUND
Keith Moore, Senior SHE Specialist, ASTRAZENECA
| 15.20 |
Successfully Accounting for Raw Materials and Embodied Carbon In The Supply Chain |
- The Scope 3 problem: time consuming and expensive?
- An efficient approach: combining process-based LCA and Environmental
- Input Output Analysis
- Identifying focus areas through data analysis: identifying the
- Suppliers that contribute the most to your footprint
- Engaging with suppliers: supporting suppliers in providing information and making reductions
- Results and next steps
Neil McIndoe, Head of Environmental Services, TRUCOST
Ian Hall, Director, SI PARTNERSHIP (HIGHLAND SPRING)
| 16.30 |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 17.00 |
The Next Stage for Scope 3 Emissions Reporting |
Once we have the data, what is the next step for Scope 3 accounting? Where do you go with the data?
- Understanding what the data gives with regards to perceptions of your business.
- Establishing how the data affects the business decisions.
- Understanding what can be done with the data to make the business more successful.
- Analysing how to adjust your business to take into account your scope 3 reporting.
- Establishing how Scope 3 emissions fit in with the wider Green House Gas Emissions.
- Understanding how to effectively make the upfront investment to give your business a valuable return
John Rumble, Sustainability Team Leader, HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
| 17.40 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 18.00 |
Chair’s Closing Remarks & Close of Day One |
| 18:05 - 19.30 |
Cocktail Reception |
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Nigel Marsh, Company Head Of Environmental Management And Assurance, ROLLS ROYCE
Rory Sullivan, Head Of Responsible Investment, INSIGHT INVESTMENT
Mark Williams, Business Strategy And Climate Change Manager, SCOTTISH WATER
William Brocklehurst, Senior Policy Advisor For Climate Change, CBI
Carmel McQuaid, Climate Change Manager, MARKS AND SPENCER
Patric Bulmer, Head Of Environment, BRISTOL WATER
Dr. Keith Maclean, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, SCOTTISH AND SOUTHERN ENERGY
Winsome MacLaurin, Chief Executive, THE ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL
James Pitcher, Climate Change Co-ordination, LONDON UNDERGROUND
Keith Moore, Senior SHE Specialist, ASTRAZENECA
John Rumble, Sustainability Team Leader, HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Sue Whitehead, Team leader, Changing Business Behaviours, DEFRA
Neil McIndoe, Head of Environmental Services, TRUCOST
Ian Hall, Director, SI PARTNERSHIP (Highland Spring)
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