1. Understand the business case

Get buy-in from your board and fellow colleagues by communicating and understanding the business benefits:

• Improved productivity
• Increased efficiency
• Reduced waste
• Lower capital requirements
• Enhanced product development
• Improved reputation and risk of being associated with an organisation that has a poor environmental record
• Easier to comply with regulations
• Stay ahead of changing consumer attitudes

   2. Measure

Find out the categories of your business purchasing that have the greatest emissions, across your own operational emissions and across the activities of other companies operating in your supply chain.   

3. Purchase ‘better’ and less

Stakeholders will hold you accountable for the performance of your suppliers, so make sure you find out what they’re actively doing to reduce their carbon footprint. Ask the business if something is really needed and choose those products with the highest emissions more carefully.

4. Engage staff

Get employees more involved in what you’re doing and ask for their opinions, their feedback is really important and not only improves how they engage with your targets but also enhances workplace morale.

5. Engage suppliers

Collaborate with suppliers and encourage them to measure and disclose their carbon emissions. If they’re not signed up to 10:10 already then encourage them to do so. See how 10:10 Leader Kyocera engaged with their reftting company to launch their new green technology suite in central London.

6. Get networking

Join an industry community to help build your own partnerships and share supply chain information, a good example is the 2degrees network

Collaborative Carbon Reduction in the Supply Chain

7. Tell us about your successes and learnings

We’ll share them with the rest of the 10:10 community. Email business@1010uk.org