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To meet climate targets and reduce Scope 3 emissions, companies need effective supplier collaboration — which includes three main pillars — to engage, educate and execute.

Marathon runners often break down the race into short goals – such as focusing on the next mile. Identifying and honing in on specific scope 3 challenges can be similarly effective in achieving scope 3 success.

Climate is a dirty business, join the fight to leave only clean fingerprints behind.

Companies can incorporate online resources and climate consulting firms, like Pure Strategies, in their work to reduce emissions, protect the environment, and shape a regenerative economy.

Pure Strategies launched of a self-assessment tool designed to help companies start in building a strong commitment to protecting and restoring nature – including water, land, biodiversity, and oceans.

Setting science-based targets for nature — as Seventh Generation and other leading companies are doing — can bolster climate targets while also helping to protect and restore water, oceans, land and biodiversity.

New Program Aims to Encourage Companies to Help Reverse Nature Loss in Line with Science

The companies that will thrive in the coming years will be the ones that have purpose integrated into their business. They will help to solve important social and environmental problems, including climate change and inequity, through the power of their business.

For decades, we’ve been concerned about products and packaging found to contain chemicals linked to chronic disease, including cancer and endocrine disruption. With efforts to increase the circularity of materials, these hazardous chemicals unintentionally could end up recycled into future products — even finding their way into "greener" options.

The climate crisis and its impact on extreme weather, future carbon regulation, and the threat of this worsening are driving companies to manage risks and ensure a future for their business by setting aggressive goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — but is it enough?   

Now is the time for setting goals with impact.  We learned that the incremental goals from the past led to limited progress.  Real transformational change is required to tackle issues such as climate change, water risk, and biodiversity loss, among others.  Companies need to have their next generation of sustainability goals be bigger and bolder. 

Pioneering farmers and ranchers are finding that the strategic combination of regenerative farming practices deliver important benefits such as rebuilding soil, replenishing water, restoring biodiversity, revitalizing rural communities, and increasing profitability. 

Tim Greiner, co-founder of Pure Strategies, helps companies like Walmart, The North Face, and Seventh Generation deepen their corporate responsibility efforts. “I’ve been privileged to make a meaningful difference." 

This month, Pure Strategies celebrates twenty years of sustainability consulting leadership. The company has helped build transformative strategies, improve products and packaging, and shift supply chains toward greater environmental and social performance for industry-leading companies including Walmart, Seventh Generation, Stonyfield Farms, Ben & Jerry’s, and over 100 other organizations.  

More and more corporate leaders are looking to establish strategies aligned with SBTi. While most companies have experience with their Scope 1 and 2 emissions, Scope 3 is less familiar. However, corporate climate leaders that are ready to dig into this next frontier of climate strategy can start with a few manageable steps.

Sustainable chemical management is a critical component of a healthy and circular future. Chemical footprinting and the CFP help advance that concept and as a result, play a key role in helping us reach a healthy and circular future.

Clean Label efforts provide food manufactures and brands an opportunity to engage their supply chains and at the same time gain consumer trust and build healthier and more sustainable products. The strategy a company deploys to align its product development, quality, safety units and how it engages externally with suppliers is critical to driving clean label projects across the business.

Pallets are ubiquitous in the economy. RM2, in collaboration with AT&T and Pure Strategies, is shifting the industry, using smart design, new materials, and improved management to enhance performance and lower the impact of pallets.