Turning Supplier Climate Commitments into Action on TRACT
Has your company set supplier engagement targets under the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)? Are you working to reduce emissions from Food, Land Use, and Agriculture (FLAG) activities?
Across the industry, companies are setting Scope 3 targets that require meaningful action and data from their suppliers. Because Scope 3 emissions are driven by supplier practices, companies need clear visibility on where suppliers stand.
Seeing Supplier Climate Progress in One Place
The new Climate Commitments questionnaire, available within the Data Request workflow, helps companies collect climate information from suppliers across all commodities in one place.
Suppliers indicate whether they measure greenhouse gas emissions, whether they have set or plan to set reduction targets, and whether those targets align with recognized frameworks such as SBTi. Once submitted, the questionnaire responses appear in the supplier profile, allowing sustainability and procurement teams to review where suppliers stand on climate commitments.
Turning Visibility into Strategy
With that overview, engagement becomes strategic rather than reactive.
Suppliers with established climate targets and emission measurement practices can become partners in decarbonization initiatives and provide primary data.
Suppliers still early in their target‑setting journey can be guided through awareness raising, technical support, and target-setting processes.
This differentiation helps companies prioritize engagement based on readiness and impact, rather than managing all suppliers in the same way.
Linking Climate, Traceability, and Compliance
Climate action doesn’t happen in isolation. It connects with land-use risk, traceability, and evolving due-diligence regulations like the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR).
By embedding the questionnaire directly in TRACT, supplier climate commitment data sits alongside traceability and compliance workflows. That creates a single, connected dataset: one source of truth for risk, sustainability, and procurement teams.
Aligning Carbon Methodologies Across the Industry
Collecting supplier commitments is an important first step. The larger challenge is aligned carbon methodologies, ensuring greenhouse gas emissions are calculated and shared consistently across suppliers and commodities.
TRACT's Carbon Technical Working Group brings partners together to solve this. The goal: practical, shared methods for carbon accounting that reflect agricultural supply chain realities.
If you're working on calculating product carbon footprints, Scope 3 accounting, working towards achieving (SBTi FLAG) climate commitments, or strengthening supplier engagement, get in touch with us.
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