Within Value Chain Mitigation: How organisations can reduce their Scope 3 GHG emissions via their agricultural supply chains

On the 9th of July 2025, the Green Finance Topic Advisory Group hosted a webinar entitled ‘Within Value Chain Mitigation: How organisations can reduce their Scope 3 GHG emissions via their agricultural supply chains’. The session presented the findings of a Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs- and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero-funded report authored by sustainability consultancy 3Keel, which examines how organisations can reduce their Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through interventions in their agricultural supply chains.

Land use change emissions contribute approximately one-third of global food system emissions. Yet for many food and drink businesses, Scope 3 emissions – indirect greenhouse gas emissions that occur in a company’s value chain – remain outside their direct control, creating both challenges and opportunities for intervention. Growing corporate pressure to meet Science-Based Targets and Forest, Land and Agriculture targets, and to align with the draft Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance has focused attention on how businesses can act within their agricultural supply chains.

This webinar aimed to clarify how stakeholders and organisations from across the LUNZ Hub community can operationalise Within Value Chain Mitigation as a mechanism to address these emissions. It introduced the guidance developed by 3Keel for corporate decision-makers, which sets out what ‘good practice’ looks like for Within Value Chain Mitigation and provides practical implementation support. This session therefore served to guide the LUNZ Hub community in designing practical, credible, and farmer-focused supply chain interventions that contribute to emissions reduction and landscape benefits, against the backdrop of increasing regulatory and commercial pressures.