Anchor Environmental Sustainability & Net Zero Carbon Strategy 2023 – 2026
Buying ethically and responsibly Ethical and responsible procurement of services that reduce carbon emissions At Anchor, we procure over £300m of goods and services annually, supporting and enabling services to residents. We already include questions about suppliers’ carbon footprints and reduction strategies in our strategic procurement activity, yet purchased goods and services make up over 25% of Anchor’s baseline carbon footprint. Therefore strengthening our approach to procurement and contract management is a priority. Emissions from purchased goods and services are defined as downstream scope 3 emissions and emerge from our supply chain’s manufacture, distribution and operation of goods and services. From pa perclips to refurbishing a whole property, and from gardening services to consultancy, each activity is associated with generating carbon emissions. Our scope 3 goods and services emissions will tend to be the producing organisation’s scope 1 or 2 emissions -and so there is a shared responsibility and incentive for us all to work together to reach net zero. Reducing these emissions requires close partnership working with our supply chain, and we will support this through: • Identifying strategic contracts and relationships to target for joint discussions on reducing emissions • Improving the quality of our carbon footprint data by working with suppliers to obtain more accurate estimates of the carbon emitted by and embodied in goods and services • Upskilling strategic contract managers and procurement colleagues in carbon literacy to support better conversations with our supply chain and improve how purchasing decisions are made with carbon emission reduction in mind • Reporting annually on carbon emissions from purchased goods and services.
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