Download Your Free Guide to Understanding Scope 3 in Hospitality
The team at The Sustainable Restaurant Association is thrilled to share their new guide to Understanding Scope 3 in Hospitality, in partnership with Agrasta and Sustained – now available for free download!
Knowing where to begin with measuring and reducing your scope 3 emissions can feel daunting, which is why we’ve partnered with Agrasta and Sustained to help you get started on your journey. This new guide explains why scope 3 emissions are particularly important for the hospitality sector, highlights the benefits of taking action (including reduced costs!) and explores how to begin measuring your emissions and – crucially – what you can do to reduce them.
The global food system contributes to up to 37% of total annual emissions, and pressure is rising on businesses of all shapes, sizes and complexities to take action on their carbon emissions. It’s impossible to create a sustainability strategy for your business without understanding exactly where your emissions are coming from, and scope 3 emissions – those that occur outside the business, throughout the supply chain – are an especially important metric for the hospitality industry.
The dialogue around these emissions is finally reaching a critical point. More and more businesses are beginning to understand that their scope 3 emissions are not only the most important to tackle, but also (unfortunately) present the biggest challenge in terms of tracking, measuring and reducing, because they occur outside your organisation. However, with growing pressure to meet net zero targets in addition to new and ever-evolving climate regulations, addressing your scope 3 impact is a must.
With invaluable insights and expertise from our partners as well as the sustainability team here at The SRA, this comprehensive guide offers solid support for your business, helping you know where to begin and how to progress on your scope 3 journey.
About our partners
AGRASTA
Agrasta is a UK start-up looking to streamline the connections between net-zero targeted food businesses and audited low carbon produce. They identify responsible producers with detailed farm level data so that businesses can have a more informed and efficient sourcing strategy, be more targeted in their net-zero activities and save on unnecessary offsets. Their innovative approaches challenge existing supply chain frameworks to provide a win-win result for food businesses and farmers. They help to reduce scope 3 emissions, enable farmers to realise the true value of their produce and generate the provenance stories that consumers demand.
SUSTAINED
Sustained is a European start up dedicated to providing scalable, cost-effective solutions that enable food companies to measure and manage their environmental impact, and to communicate their progress against their environmental sustainability goals. Sustained Impact is the self-service software platform that provides fast, automated and affordable PCF and LCA at scale. The Impact platform enables companies to compare products and build lower carbon menus, as well as use impact modelling throughout the NPD/EPD process to reduce impact from recipe inception to the kitchen. Sustained Integrated is a solution for businesses looking to embed environmental scores into their day-to-day operations through API integrations with their existing ERP and PLM systems.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association is here to support the hospitality industry on its sustainability journey. For more information, see www.thesra.org. Stay up to date with our latest resources and insights by signing up to our newsletter and following us on Instagram and LinkedIn! Businesses who sign up to the Food Made Good Standard and become part of our network also enjoy access to additional support and resources. Learn more about the Standard here, or drop us a line with any questions at standard@thesra.org.
