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EPA Climate Leadership Resources for Reducing Supply Chain GHG Emissions
- LMI's GAIA Sustainable Supply Chain Maturity Model Exitprovides companies with a framework to assess the maturity of their own organizations and programs for engaging suppliers on managing their GHG emissions, based on industry research.
- CPD Exitand its CDP Supply Chain Project Exitinitiative are programs for voluntary, public reporting of corporate GHG emissions inventories. The flagship CDP focuses on emissions disclosure by large corporations, whereas CDP Supply Chain serves its member companies by collecting emissions inventories from their suppliers.
- World Resources Institute/World Business Council for Sustainable Development Product and Supply Chain Protocol Standards Exitand the aligned Scope 3 Evaluator Tool Exit. WRI and WBCSD developed the GHG Corporate Protocol Standard, which is widely used to account for corporate-wide GHG emissions. The forthcoming GHG Protocol standards will provide a standardized method to inventory the emissions associated with individual products across their full life cycles and of corporate value chains, taking into account impacts both upstream and downstream of the company's operations. By taking a comprehensive approach to GHG measurement and management, companies can focus attention on the greatest opportunities to reduce emissions within the full value chain.
- The 2011 Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition Report: A Practical Approach to Greening the Electronics Supply Chain: Results from the 2011 EICC Carbon and Water Reporting Initiative. (PDF) (20 pp, 817K) provides insights into how the electronics industry sector is engaging its suppliers on managing their GHG emissions.
- Third-party and federal technical assistance programs. Several programs offer resources to help suppliers reduce emissions, including EPA's SmartWay, Green Power Partnership, ENERGY STAR program, and more.
- The 2010 EPA Report: Managing Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Lessons for the Road Ahead highlights lessons learned by early movers that engaged their suppliers on GHG management.
