Nationwide Building Society is the world's largest building society, serving over 16 million members.
It’s a company taking its Scope 3 seriously. It has a goal to reduce its upstream Scope 3 emissions across categories 1, 2 and 4 by 42% by 2030. And these upstream emissions are around 80 times the emissions of Scope 1.
Leading the charge is the company’sResponsible Business Manager, Zara Williams. She’s fresh from picking up a CIPS award for Nationwide’s Commitment to supply chain decarbonisation. The judges (Ollie among them) particularly liked the firm’s efforts to establish new, proportionate, science-based target expectations for suppliers of high-value contracts.
Ollie knows her story well – and he was dead keen to get her on to the podcast so that she can share her journey with you too.
Elsewhere, Tom meets Ecochain, solutions provider that has, since 2011, gained the insights needed to help businesses bring sustainability in-house. As Floris Schiks, the company’s Business Director says, the company exists to enabling different stakeholders on a supplier level to actually understand the impact of their products after having modelled it – and then translate this into everyday decisions.
It’s a business with some big ideas and plenty of insights to share.
Enjoy the show.
And remember, all episodes are available at www.scope3peergroup.com.
