As businesses delve into their emissions, the supply chain has to be assessed.
Supply chain emissions can be up to twelve times larger than a company’s own operating emissions.
That’s why they have to be taken seriously.
It does start with the bigger players demanding sustainability from their suppliers.
But as these suppliers go green to meet demands, so do others.
The trickle-down effect means that smaller businesses that want to go green now have options to put pressure on their own suppliers.
Partnerships begin to develop between sustainable suppliers and businesses going green.
A good example of this is Walmart’s drive for sustainability and how they are providing their suppliers with the tools they need to go green.
These suppliers have all grown in revenue as businesses gravitate towards them.
Another fine example of why sustainability and profitability go together.