Suppliers and commuting

Asking suppliers for their own figures, scoring and accepting them, and the employee commute survey.

Supplier requests (Professional)

Spend factors are averages. Your biggest suppliers' own figures are better.

1. Read your books first. Suppliers lists suppliers by the emissions of what you bought from them, with their share of your Scope 3.
2. Tick the ones to ask, check their email, and Ask the ticked suppliers.
3. Each gets an email from your business with a link - no sign-in. They give their Scope 1, 2 (and 3) emissions, revenue for the same year, whether the figures were verified, their target, their renewable share and whether they accept your supplier code of conduct.
4. Answers show as To check, with a score out of 100 and their kg CO₂e per unit of revenue.
5. Accept makes the supplier's own factor and maps them to it. Read your books again to update their lines. Don't use keeps the answer but changes nothing.

A request with no answer after 10 days gets one reminder. Cancel stops the link.

Figures in another currency than yours or US dollars can't be used directly - ask for them in your currency.

Commute survey (Professional)

Travel to work is Scope 3 category 7.

1. People > Commute survey: send the question to everyone active in HR with an email, and to other emails you type.
2. Each person answers in a minute: how they mostly get to work, how far one way, days a week at the workplace and at home, and people in the car.
3. Count the answers makes one data line per way of travel.

Scale up to all employees multiplies the answers when not everyone replies. Count home-working days adds an estimate for home energy (optional in the GHG Protocol). Only totals are used; nobody sees another person's answer.