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You've received an email inviting you to respond to Greenly's supplier questionnaire, and you want to understand why and the process step by step. We've prepared this guide to make your experience easier: here's how you can sign up, answer the questionnaire, and learn more about the certification we provide. We couldnât be happier to guide you through this Greenly journey!
As you may already know, your client is engaged in a climate strategy to reduce his GHG emissions and suppliers can account for up to 90% of these emissions. This is why they decided to ask you to fill this questionnaire.
Step 1: Create Your Greenly Account
Before you can answer the questionnaire, you'll need to create a Greenly account, according to the instructions youâve received in your invitation email.
You will need to fill in your company information and identification number among the list offered. If you do not have an identification number, you will unfortunately not be able to answer this questionnaire.
Step 2: Answer the questionnaire
The content of the supplier questionnaire is divided into five sections, each of which is essential for evaluating your carbon footprint and sustainable practices.
Section 1: Carbon accounting
This section covers the topic of your greenhouse gas (GHG) assessments: measuring your direct and indirect emissions is the first step of any rigorous climate strategy.
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This section includes classic questions on the GHG Assessment itself (operational perimeter, methodological perimeter, year, methodology) and fields where you can fill in your emissions values. Additionally, you will also get asked whether you disclosed your footprint and if so, using which tool.
Section 2: Commitments
This section covers your reduction commitments. Here you can share multiple commitments, by defining for each of them: the reference year, the target year, the total reduction objective, whether the target is in intensity (eg -50% per employee or per product sold) or absolute (-500tCO2e), etc. We also ensure these reduction targets are public: in our experience, reduction targets are rarely followed by action if companies cannot be held accountable for them by the general public.
Section 3: Action plans
This section aims to assess whether you put in place actions to reduce your footprint that are consistent with the reduction levels dictated by the Paris Agreements. The questions are divided into subsets that correspond to different emissions sources (eg travel, product purchases, food purchases, etc). The subsets of questions you get asked depend on your industry's most relevant emission sources. In case you don't recognize yourself in the list of available industries, you will get asked a list of questions to determine which subsets of questions are relevant to you.
For instance, an actor in the food industry will be mainly asked questions related to its food product purchase and freight services.
Additionally, we ask you whether you started engaging your own suppliers so that the climate strategy progresses through the whole value chain.
Section 4: Carbon Contribution
This section values the investments you can take to offset your emissions. We take into account the amount of CO2 reduced or sequestrated by the funded projects and the label that certifies the projects.
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Although these projects do not help you reduce your emissions, protecting and raising the capacity of carbon sinks worldwide is necessary to reach global Net Zero in 2050.
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Section 5: Raising awareness among employees
This last section covers your initiatives for raising employee awareness. This is essential, as a part of your emissions depends on your employee's behavior. We will focus on several aspects :
First, we try to estimate how involved the employees were during the GHG assessment: were the approach and results presented globally?
Second, we focus on workshops: did you set up climate fresks or similar awareness-raising seminars?
Finally, you can describe freely other initiatives
To view the complete list of questions, you can refer to this document. Each question is accompanied by a comment explaining its purpose.
Step 3: Discover your score and rewards
After completing the supplier questionnaire, you will receive a score ranging from A+ to E, reflecting your environmental performance. This allows both your customer and yourself to better understand where you stand in terms of your sustainability goals and how to reduce your carbon emissions.
Additionally, you may receive a Greenly certificate in recognition of your environmental efforts. You can refer to our dedicated article on medals and certificates to learn more about these rewards and how they can enhance your commitment to sustainability.
Note :
You can save your answers and take the questionnaire again later
You can save your answers and come back at any time to finish the questionnaire.
You can invite colleagues to participate
You have two options to do so:
You may give the contact details of a colleague more likely to have the answers to the Greenly questionnaire under section 1. Profile Information and click on "Invite member".
You may export the questionnaire as an Excel file to share it with your colleagues. Once the missing information is collected, you will just have to use it to finish filling in the questionnaire