UNICEF Supply Scope 3 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline

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UNICEF Supply Scope 3 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline underlines UNICEF’s commitment to transparency and to the climate agenda. It highlights our commitment to our partners in supply chains, as outlined in the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, in both mitigating the emissions from our supply chains and operations, as well as in contributing to adaptation and resilience of national social services, through high-quality products and services.

UNICEF undertook this comprehensive assessment of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embedded in our supply chains (or ‘scope 3’ emissions) to understand where our hot spots and exposures are and prioritize actions to address these hot spots, to set evidence-based targets, and to initiate a monitoring and reporting framework that will allow us to transparently track progress over time.

Scope 3 emissions are defined by the GHG Protocol, which identifies three different scopes for GHG measurement, reduction and mitigation. Scope 1 is an organization’s direct emissions, produced, for example, by its fleet of vehicles, or its generators. Scope 2 are indirect emissions linked to the electricity, heating, and cooling used in offices.

Scope 3 are indirect emissions, such as those related to the production of purchased goods and services, staff travel, treatment of waste, etc. Calculating scope 3 emissions is the most complicated out of the three scopes and are also often 11.4 times that of a company’s direct emissions.

To access UNICEF's dedicated page to the UNICEF Supply Scope 3 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline Report and UNICEF Supply Scope 3 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baseline Compendium, please visit: 

https://www.unicef.org/supply/documents/unicef-supply-scope-3-greenhouse-gas-emissions-baseline