adelphi and Trucost establish partnership to tackle supply chain carbon emissions

Today, adelphi and Trucost announced their collaboration to provide supply chain carbon measurement and reduction services.

Combining adelphi’s expertise on environmental management and green public procurement with Trucost’s global environmental impact data, the two companies will support German municipalities in efficiently reducing the carbon footprint associated with their procurement decisions. Cost-effective services in this area will contribute to Germany’s ambitious climate protection goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% in 2020 (compared to the 1990 baseline).
Greening public procurement

A significant challenge in managing supply chain emissions is identifying the procurement areas that offer the most potential for environmental impact reduction. Trucost has spent the last ten years researching, standardising and validating the world’s most comprehensive data on corporate environmental impacts to provide comparable data on suppliers’ environmental performance. Where suppliers do not currently measure or disclose their environmental impacts, Trucost ‘completes the data gaps’ with its advanced environmental profiling model to provide a complete supply chain footprint.

Based on this analysis, adelphi supports municipalities in developing effective strategies for reducing the carbon footprint of their procurement decisions. Taking into account that European public authorities spend about 16% of the EU’s gross domestic product a year for the procurement of goods and services, this may influence production and consumption trends in favour of environmentally friendly and socially responsible products and services on a large scale. To enhance capacities in the private sector for responding effectively to green procurement requirements, adelphi will use its expertise on environmental management to engage with suppliers to reduce the carbon-intensity of their production processes.

Environmental, social and economic benefits

Walter Kahlenborn, Managing Director at adelphi comments, “carbon emissions are not just an environmental issue, they also reflect a real cost to business. Trucost’s data will enable us to target the procurement areas that offer the most potential for carbon reduction, improving the efficiency of our customers' supply chains and identifying cost cutting opportunities.”

Richard Mattison, Chief Operating Officer at Trucost states, “we regularly find that just 10% of suppliers will be responsible for around 90% of supply chain environmental impacts. Our data enables organisations to identify their ‘hot spots’, even when their suppliers do not disclose data, and efficiently manage their supply chain environmental impacts.”

About adelphi

adelphi is a leading think tank for policy analysis and strategy consulting. We offer creative solutions and services on global environment and development challenges for policy, business and civil society communities. Our projects contribute to sustaining natural life systems and fostering sustainable enterprises. adelphi´s clients include international organisations, governments, public institutions, corporations and associations.

We bring together scientific and technical expertise with analytical and strategic competence, practical application and constructive problem solving. Our integrated approach combines research, consulting and dialogue on six main topic areas. International and interdisciplinary project teams contribute worldwide to a common future – working in different cultures and languages.

In the last ten years adelphi realised more than 400 projects for 100 clients, offering professional and strategic support to crucial environment and development policies and processes. Sustainability is the foundation and leitmotiv of our internal and external conduct. All our activities are climate-neutral and we apply a certified environmental management system.

www.adelphi.de

About Trucost

Trucost was established in 2000, to help organisations, investors and governments to understand and quantify the environmental impacts of business activities.

Over the past 10 years Trucost has collected, researched and validated environmental data from organisations across the world. The result is the world´s most comprehensive dara on corporate environmental impacts, covering Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), water, waste, metals and chemicals.

www.trucost.com

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