It can be reduced, and this is where the most powerful opportunities lie, provided they are treated as strategic decisions: choosing suppliers and materials, product design, travel policy, freight and distribution model. The method is to identify the 3 to 5 categories contributing most, find an initial short-term opportunity in each, then engage the main suppliers, a process taking 12 to 24 months. Their data then enable reductions to be tracked year after year, particularly as part of an SBTi pathway.
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