Supply Chain & Scope 3 Decarbonisation Project of the Year

Recognising programmes delivering measurable Scope 3 emissions reductions through supplier engagement, procurement, product redesign, logistics or improved value-chain data.

The finalists

100+ Accelerator and Crop Intellect

Scaling Agricultural N₂O Removal for Scope 3 Decarbonisation

Through AB InBev's 100+ Accelerator, Crop Intellect is scaling R-Leaf, a crop-applied technology that uses photocatalysis to remove nitrous oxide from the air above farmland while converting nitrogen oxides into plant-available nitrate. Nitrous oxide from fertiliser use is among the most potent and least tractable sources of agricultural Scope 3 emissions, and the appeal of R-Leaf is that it is applied as a foliar spray within existing programmes, requiring no change to farming practice. Crop Intellect has developed an ISO 14064-2-aligned methodology for quantifying the removal, giving downstream buyers a basis for measurement and potential insetting.

Baxter Freight

The Sustainable Freight Network

Baxter Freight, a freight forwarder, has built a three-stage service for customers wanting to cut logistics emissions. It begins with GLEC-verified reporting to establish where carbon-intensive activity sits in a customer's supply chain, then looks for reductions within it through intermodal shifts or lower-carbon fuels, and finally uses book-and-claim insetting on sustainable logistics projects elsewhere. The company only supplies EN15940-grade hydrotreated vegetable oil to its own hauliers and requires third-party verification for insets. Since May 2025 it has reported on over 3,000 tonnes of CO2e across more than 40 customer supply chains and purchased insets covering over 25 tonnes.

Consilient Health

Decarbonising a Virtual Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

With no owned factories, fleets or warehouses, Consilient Health concentrated on the parts of its outsourced pharmaceutical supply chain it could influence: supplier data quality, ESG due diligence, logistics design and batch planning. A major product-line batch optimisation increased batch sizes and cut shipment frequency from 19 to five a year without altering the approved product specification, saving an estimated 33,556kg CO2e and €133,442 annually. Upstream transportation and distribution emissions fell 94%, from 1,860.3 to 111.0 tCO2e, and purchased goods and services fell 31%. Logistics redesign also cut average weekly stored pallets from 1,100 to 755.

HH Global

Sustainable Procurement Framework (SPF)

HH Global's Scope 3 emissions reached approximately 3.15 million tCO2e in FY25, reflecting a business model built on a global supplier network. Its Sustainable Procurement Framework standardises supplier data and scores participants on a 100-point scale split evenly between strategy and actions, allowing consistent benchmarking. Over 2,000 suppliers across 55 countries, representing more than 80% of spend, have been engaged, supported by more than 40 educational resources, multilingual access and an emissions calculator. Higher-scoring suppliers are prioritised in sourcing decisions. HH Global has seen a 4% reduction in Scope 3 emissions in FY25, equivalent to 132,607 tCO2e avoided.

IFCO Systems & ASDA

Decarbonising Supply Chains

IFCO Systems has moved more than 130 growers and producers supplying Asda from nesting trays to foldable reusable packaging containers, changing how fresh produce travels from farm to store and back again. The containers allow up to 13% more product per pallet and cut the number of pallets requiring collection by 44%, removing around 7,270 vehicle movements. Each container is reused up to 120 times before being recycled into new ones, and old nesting trays were recycled into the replacements, closing the material loop. The switch delivered a 10% reduction in packaging-related carbon emissions in 2025.

Prologis & Mobilityways

Green Travel Programme

Prologis operates 28 UK logistics parks whose occupiers employ tens of thousands of people, mostly at semi-rural sites poorly served by public transport, making commuting a stubborn part of its Scope 3 footprint. Since 2022 it has worked with Mobilityways to survey travel patterns, analysing over 7,000 anonymised postcodes to identify car-sharing matches and transport gaps. Liftshare for Work now operates at more than 20 parks, connecting employees across different employers on the same site. Car sharing has saved approximately 1,128 tonnes of CO2e and removed 4,173,120 miles from the road, with two sites exceeding 70% sustainable commuting.

Sky

Sky Glass: Reimagining TV for Lower Carbon

Products Sky places in customers' homes accounted for 978,000 tCO2e of its 2024 Scope 3 footprint, making televisions one of its highest-impact categories. Using lifecycle assessments aligned to ISO 14040 and 14044, Sky identified the biggest contributors in the first-generation Sky Glass – display panels, electronic assemblies, mechanical components and the stand – and redesigned around them. Product weight dropped 10 to 16%, recycled content reached 19 to 22% by weight, and stand emissions fell 94%.

Sunwoda

Digital Battery Passport Solution

Battery emissions data sits with different organisations across extraction, refining, manufacture, use and recycling, leaving companies unable to calculate product footprints or locate hotspots reliably. Sunwoda has built a platform that creates a digital passport for each battery, accessible by QR code, holding materials, carbon footprint, due diligence, recycled content and compliance data, then expands it as information arrives from suppliers, battery management systems, maintenance partners and recyclers. It covers 15 data systems and 78 indicators with blockchain-backed records and permission-based access. In 2025 Sunwoda completed five pilots, engaged 28 key suppliers on carbon management and completed seven ISO 14067 verifications.

Syngenta

Collaborative Carbon Reduction: A Supplier Engagement Success Story

Syngenta set out to replace estimated supplier emissions data with primary data across its crop protection supply chain, working through regional sustainability leads and procurement managers supported by central environmental specialists. Rather than issuing mandates, the company helped suppliers calculate product carbon footprints, co-developed decarbonisation roadmaps for prioritised products and provided technical expertise those suppliers lacked. A site classification tool was piloted to build sustainability requirements into sourcing decisions. Engaging 130 suppliers across 35 supply chains and collecting over 180 product carbon footprints lifted primary data quality from 7% in 2023 to 60%, enabling Scope 3.1 target-setting for the first time.