LUPC's Carbon toolkit now includes guidance for members on methodologies for using supplier scope 3 reporting to calculate institutional carbon footprint, following a five-step hierarchy consistent with GHG accounting best practice.

The latest update provides a clearer separation between using a Carbon Reduction Plan (CRP) for procurement compliance vs input into carbon accounting. Further guidance is provided around how to prioritise suppliers to ensure proportionality, as well as data verification, materiality, assessing data quality and avoiding double-counting.

The updated CRP Template which forms part of the toolkit aligns with PPN 006 and 06/21 and extends the ask further to improve data usability.

Suppliers are asked to provide:

• Verification commitment
• All material scope 3 categories
• Turnover
• Methodology disclosure
• Intensity metrics         
• Offset trajectory
• Product-level emissions commitment.
  
  

The CRP evaluation checklist included in the toolkit provides a strong governance model for evaluation including:

• Compliance
• Credibility
• Best practice
• Contract management.
  
  

You can find the Carbon Toolkit within the Carbon section of the Responsible Procurement Page of the LUPC website.

For feedback and support, please contact our RP Lead, Mags Shapiro.