Supplier Engagement for Carbon Management
Empowering your value chain to deliver on net zero commitments
As more organisations commit to ambitious climate goals, Scope 3 emissions from suppliers remain the most complex and critical to address.
Supplier engagement isn’t just about tracking data; it’s about creating alignment across the business, and breaking down silos between sustainability, management, and supply chain teams. It’s also about building supplier capability to move beyond reporting and take meaningful action that manages climate-related risk. Our approach enables both your organisation and its suppliers to build resilience while accelerating progress toward net zero.
Challenges in supply chain engagement:
- Internal alignment: supply chain teams often lack awareness of the supplier impact on carbon footprints and their role in achieving company targets.
- Effective supplier engagement: Communicating strategic benefits and tailoring approaches to suppliers of varying maturity takes time and expertise, which can stretch already busy sustainability teams.
- Driving supplier action through procurement: Teams need to understand how procurement processes can influence supplier behaviour to support sustainability goals.
How we support supplier carbon engagement
Through supplier education, we help your suppliers understand sustainability expectations and take meaningful action on carbon reduction. In addition, through internal supply chain team engagement, we work with your teams to increase collaboration, clarify roles and embed sustainability across the supply chain.
We deliver a Supplier Carbon Toolkit tailored to your organisation, combining data-driven tools with practical resources to help suppliers move from awareness to action.
Supplier Prioritisation Tool
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- Identify priority suppliers by combining your data with external benchmarks on emissions, sustainability performance, and industry risk.
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- See a clear traffic light view of your supplier base, showing where targets are aligned, where engagement is needed, and where focused support will have the greatest impact.
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- Unite internal teams (sustainability, management, and supply chain) around shared priorities instead of working in silos.
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- Build supplier capacity to take meaningful action, manage climate-related risks, and progress decarbonisation.
Target Setting Tool
Our Target Setting Tool helps suppliers move from understanding their footprint to setting achievable climate goals. It enables you to:
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- Standardise supplier data collection on Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in a simple, structured way.
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- Generate a clear emissions summary that identifies high-impact areas.
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- Build supplier capability to act, so they are not just reporting numbers but actively managing climate-related risks.
“By working with Acclaro, we transformed Scope 3 engagement from a compliance burden into a source of resilience and long-term value across our supply chain.”
Churchill Group (named as 2026 Finalists for Supply Chain Sustainability Project of the Year)
How the toolkit works
Tool: Supplier prioritisation tool (based on responsibility, influenceability, and materiality, using sustainability data and supplier maturity)
Outcome:
Targeted, efficient engagement efforts
Focus resources where they will drive the most emissions reductions and influence
Tool: Education materials (FAQs, “Emissions 101” presentations, and guidance docs)
Outcome:
- Informed, engaged suppliers aligned with your climate goals
- Increased supplier capacity to act
Tool: Supplier Target-setting toolkit tailored to supplier profiles
Outcome:
- Supplier emissions data
- Ambitious but achievable supplier targets aligned to your Scope 3 reduction pathway
- Clear progress tracking
Tool: Engagement timeline (mapping touchpoints and milestones)
Outcome:
- Consistent, structured supplier engagement
- Maintained momentum towards climate targets
Tool: Live Q&A sessions, webinars, and follow-up resource support
Outcome:
- Strengthened supplier relationships
- Increased data quality and reporting rates
- Identification of new collaboration and commercial opportunitie
Business Benefits
- Sustained progress towards climate goals: Accelerates delivery against your climate commitments through a structured and measurable approach to supplier engagement.
- Prioritised and targeted supplier engagement plan: Identifies and ranks suppliers based on responsibility, influenceability, and materiality of their footprint, drawing on sustainability performance data and supplier maturity assessments.
- Enhanced supplier capability and alignment: Increases engagement that educates suppliers, brings them on the journey, and strengthens their ability to contribute to climate goals while upskilling their teams.
- Improved Scope 3 data quality: Increases the volume and accuracy of emissions data reported by suppliers, improving your Scope 3 inventory and tracking progress towards reduction targets.
- New opportunities for collaboration and value creation: Unlocks partnerships with suppliers that deliver shared sustainability value, strengthen relationships, and create potential commercial opportunities.
Why work with Acclaro?
At Acclaro Advisory, we specialise in turning climate ambition into practical action. Our expertise in GHG accounting, supplier engagement, and science-based target setting allows us to meet you where you are, and guide your suppliers to where they need to be.
We blend technical know-how with strategic insight to make carbon management accessible and achievable across your entire value chain.
Ready to unlock progress in your supply chain?
Contact us today to discuss how we can support your supplier engagement strategy and help you achieve your Scope 3 goals.