Why supply chains hold the key to cutting a company's carbon footprint

Recorded during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, this episode points out that a vaccine can end a health crisis, while climate change has no comparable quick remedy. That contrast frames the whole conversation.

A large share of any organisation's carbon footprint sits within its supply chain, so the discussion looks at a new corporate climate initiative aimed at that problem. The initiative is explained as a way for companies to calculate their supply chain emissions, manage them and then work to reduce them. The episode treats carbon measurement as the necessary first step before any meaningful reduction can happen.