IWFM contributes to Scope 3 framework

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Recently, IWFM collaborated with Acclaro Advisory and other industry leaders to create the ‘Framework for Scope 3 Emissions in FM’, benchmark setting guidance to help FM businesses monitor and reduce indirect emissions in their supply chain. 

In the past, the FM sector has lacked an industry-wide benchmark to monitor, mitigate and reduce indirect carbon emissions created in organisations’ supply chains. The new framework addresses this shortfall, helping cement the FM profession as a key player in driving decarbonisation. Additionally, whole building carbon assessments have tended to exclude FM-based emissions, which obscures the reality of the built environment’s full carbon output and prevents the embedding of sustainability from the design stage.  

As the built environment plays such a significant role in the UK’s total emissions and net zero remains high on the agenda, there’s a strong demand for correct calculations of carbon emissions. IWFM played a leading role in providing insight into creating the framework, joined by industry leaders such as Skanska, Bouygues, Optima and others.  

Head of Policy & Research, Sofie Hooper, said: “Cutting the sector’s emissions is vital and key to this is collaboration to establish the industry benchmark. Workplace and facilities management (WFM) can now take a uniform approach which organisations can use to determine what good looks like and avoid relying on incomplete or inaccurate assessments. Furthermore, WFM can now demonstrate its commitment to net zero and play a leading role in discussions and actions around the whole lifecycle of buildings.” 

Click here to access ‘Framework for Scope 3 Emissions in FM’.  

To discover the key issues related to Scope 3 emissions, access webinars on-demand by the IWFM Sustainability SIG: 

'Scope 3: building a greenhouse gas inventory' 

‘Scope 3: developing a greenhouse gas roadmap and target’