I'll wrap up this impromptu jargon-fuelled series shorty, but I want to briefly touch on how your customers form part of your Scope 3 emissions (Scope 3 is predominantly your supply chain).
Recap for continuity: Your supply chain includes any person, organisation, resource, activity or technology contributing to you delivering your work.
(Another way of saying it is that your Scope 3 emissions are other people's Scope 1 & 2 emissions, if that helps).
So... if your end client is a big polluter, or a fossil fuel company, or a magnate who buys billboards to try to influence election campaigns - their emissions are your emissions, and your Scope 3 tanks.
Which means it's worth not just checking your suppliers, but also double-checking who your customers are.
My favourite example is in the advertising industry - Clean Creatives are a not-for-profit calling out advertising agencies who work for fossil fuel companies. They believe fossil fuel advertising should be wiped out completely, just like tobacco was.
It comes down to 2 things:
Your clients are a HUGE part of your Scope 3, and that's really worth taking a look at.
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