Understanding and managing carbon in supply chains
25 of our Partners and over 2061 of their suppliers are collaborating through the School to report their performance against carbon-related activities through the Carbon Calculator.
There is a climate emergency – the IPCC and Committee on Climate Change state that we need to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The built environment is a significant contributor to the situation.
Through its Partners and member companies across the sector, the School has an extensive presence and reach to make a significant difference.
The School’s Climate Action Group is the forum to enable this; proactive businesses are coming together to make consistent decisions and take concerted action against carbon emissions in their own organisations and in their supply chains.
The aim of the group is to drive a reduction in carbon emissions from the built environment value chain through the products, works and services procured.
How will this be achieved?
By capturing and analysing organisational-level annual data, we can improve our knowledge of the scale of the issue, highlight priorities, and reduce emissions.
The School is enabling a common understanding across client, designer, main contractor, and supplier organisations, facilitating knowledge transfer and collaboration. The group has developed a Carbon Calculator, based on Action Sustainability’s Sustainability Tool, to record and manage supplier carbon emissions at an organisational, annual level.
Users report performance against a number of metrics in a base-unit format that is easily recognisable to anyone in the built environment. The Carbon Calculator has built-in functionality to convert this performance into carbon emissions, giving all in the supply chain a chance to better understand, and therefore reduce their scope 1, 2 and 3 carbon.
2025/2026 Climate Action Group Update
To learn more about the group’s targets and objectives for 2025/2026, download the Business Plan below.
Download the Business PlanGroup outputs
Find out what the Climate Action Group has been working on:
Management Capabilities
Carbon Calculator
Tool
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Stef and Hattie are here to help get Partners involved with the Climate Action Group.
Meeting Dates:
The next meeting dates for the Climate Action Group have been set. Please see below for further details.
| Date/ Time | Location |
| 2025 dates TBC. | Microsoft Teams |
Meeting Notes:
Download notes from any of the previous Climate Action Group meetings below.
2024
12 December 2024 | 12 September 2024
2023
17 May 2023
2022
9 November 2022 | 26 May 2022
2021
2 December 2021 | 18 May 2021 | 18 March 2021
2020
10 September 2020
2019
4 November 2019 | 4 October 2019 | 23 July 2019
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The Climate Action Group is a collaboration between clients, contractors and suppliers who have a mutual interest in driving a reduction in carbon emissions from the built environment value chain through the products, works and services procured.
