Conquering Carbon: Scope 3 Training Academy for Suppliers

For most companies, Scope 3 emissions represent the greatest contribution to their emissions profiles: as much as 90% of a company’s total GHG emissions. Conquering Scope 3 emissions will take a coordinated effort, but you don’t have to do it alone. SSC’s Conquering Carbon: Scope 3 Training Academy is designed to be a comprehensive guide for understanding, measuring, and reducing Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

Training and educating suppliers has become imperative as one of the top Scope 3 categories for most companies is Purchased Goods and Services.

Scope 3 emissions training

AUDIENCE:

This training is delivered directly to your suppliers. A dedicated sustainability expert at SSC will be assigned to present each session live. A minimum of 20 suppliers is required in order to begin the training.

Each of our instructors can accommodate between 20 and 50 suppliers per module. We allow for participation from up to 3 people from the same supplier company making our maximum class size 150 participants total.

This size gives our instructors the ability to offer a total of 5 hours of additional support to suppliers throughout the module.

HIGH-LEVEL TRAINING PLAN:

3 Webinar-Based Training Modules Including:

  • 4 Sessions in Each Module

  • 4 Months per Module equaling 12 Months Total if Completing All Modules

  • Interactive Exercises

  • Workbooks and Resources

  • Software for Measuring, Compiling, and Reporting Scope 1, 2, and Eventually Scope 3 Emissions is Available for an Additional Fee

  • Assigned SSC Team Member for Suppliers to Contact with Questions

Expected Benefits:

After completing SSC’s Scope 3 Training Academy, suppliers will be able to:

  • Understand and measure their GHG emissions to provide primary data to your company.

  • Reduce their carbon footprint and help them meet Scope 3 reduction goals and science-based targets.

  • Utilize the workbook and course materials to help drive continuous improvement within their operations.

  • Develop sustainability goals, and carbon reduction goals, and measure their Scope 3 emissions to set their science-based targets.

 

Why Choose SSC?

Leveraging over 23 years of applied experience with a sole focus on sustainability, SSC acts as a trusted advisor to revolutionize business operations through sustainability. We utilized this knowledge to design the Scope 3 Training Academy to ensure that we support suppliers at all levels of maturity.

Our experts provide end-to-end training with different entry points to meet suppliers where they are and guide them toward the ultimate goal of providing primary data. Suppliers will follow our proven roadmap to achieve GHG reductions in their operations, products, and supply chains.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The training consists of 3 webinar-based training modules. Each module contains 4 sessions for a total of 12 sessions. Each module spans 4 months. If suppliers are completing all 3 modules, they will finish the training in 12 months.

  • Yes. A dedicated sustainability expert at SSC who specializes in decarbonization will be assigned to deliver each session live. All live training sessions will be recorded and delivered to suppliers within 24 hours. Suppliers can access the recordings at any time during the training.

  • Yes. The sessions are formatted exactly like a college course. Each session is a hands-on learning experience that includes interactive exercises, workbooks, and homework assignments to assist each supplier in measuring their emissions and decarbonizing their operations and products. Suppliers will be able to ask questions during the live sessions for the instructor to answer at the end.

 

Resources

Thought Prompt

The thought prompt is designed to help you start thinking about which Scope 3 categories apply to your company.

Podcast Episode

Tad Talks Sustainability: Scope 3 Emissions: How to Help Your Suppliers Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

READINESS ASSESSMENT

Fill out the Readiness Assessment and our team will contact the email provided with a high-level action plan specific to your Scope 3 journey. 

 

Recordings of Recent Scope 3 Webinars

RECORDED
MAY 22, 2024

SSC’s President, Tad Radzinski, presented on a free educational webinar hosted by Sustain.Life about tackling Scope 3 emissions in purchased goods and services. 

Sustain.Life is a carbon accounting platform that can help you calculate your company's carbon footprint, set science-based targets, and simplify climate disclosures. 

SSC has partnered with Sustain.Life and we are actively using their software to not only help our clients measure GHG emissions and Scope 3, but also as a comprehensive sustainability tracking and reporting platform.

RECORDED
MAY 15, 2024

New regulations as well as commitments and requirements from large organizations are pushing companies to measure Scope 3 emissions and set science-based targets. The truth is most companies often feel overwhelmed by the scale of this effort and don’t know where to start. In this educational webinar, Tad Radzinski provides actionable steps for measuring, reporting, and reducing your Scope 3 Emissions.

In this hands-on learning experience, Tad discusses:

  • An Overview of Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions

  • Various Regulations and Market Drivers for Measuring, Reporting, and Reducing Scope 3 Emissions

  • Strategies for Measuring and Reporting Scope 1, 2, and 3 Emissions

  • Scope 3 Baselining/Hot Spot Process for Identifying your Company's Top Scope 3 Categories

  • The Importance of Suppliers in Measuring and Reducing Scope 3 Emissions

  • Measuring and Reporting Scope 3 Emissions for Continuous Data Improvement