Sustainability roundtable - SAP Concur & Consilio.io
Leigh-jay Lawrence
Award-winning SAP Concur Expense, Invoice and Travel Implementation & Consulting partner (CIP & CCP)
Last week, I was invited to present Consilio's Scope 3 Emissions dashboard at SAP Concur's first-ever Sustainability Dinner at the Sky Gardens. We had a variety of attendees, including Corporate Responsibility Officers, Emissions Managers, Procurement and Finance Directors, discussing topics relating to GHG Protocols & corporate responsibility.
David Attenborough's book: "A life on our Planet" was part of the event's goodie bag (thank you SAP). At 94 years old, David has witnessed the world's population increase from 2.7 billion in 1954 to 7.8 billion in 2022; as a species, we rarely think about our daily emissions inventory. Each coffee we drink or sandwich we consume has an emissions profile - from?harvest to consumption: electricity, manufacturing, packaging, and distribution all produce direct & indirect emissions.
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Each day, water is pumped and pressurised to reach our homes. Around 2,500 litres of water is needed to produce the food we eat (daily), another 50 litres for drinking & hygiene, and approximately 100 more litres for washing clothes. All of these activities require energy, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions.
The UK is one of many countries leading GHG Scope 3 initiatives. Organisations such as "www.theracetozero.co.uk" are helping companies define their carbon-neutral strategies. The UK government is also taking significant steps to reach net-zero domestically, with an ambitious target of reducing carbon emissions by 68% by 2030, creating thousands of new UK jobs, and bringing awareness to a topic often discussed but rarely understood.
What else can we do? Creating a mission statement and analysing a supply chains emissions inventory is a great start. Many businesses already have some of the systems & business processes required to draw down emissions data. However, emissions & spend management data is rarely captured and visualised in one place; less than 1% of UK companies have an embedded tool that measures and accurately reports on GHG emissions.
To take part in our next event or if you would like to find out more about Consilio's Scope 3 emission & Connect Spend Management dashboards, email me at [email protected]?