Before collaborating with the Terra Institute, LCS worked with a service provider that offers a digital tool for creating corporate footprints. With its help, LCS was able to create an initial greenhouse gas footprint for the company in Austria. The LCS sustainability team needed support in validating and correcting the results following the assessment. Input was also required regarding the interpretation of the results of the assessment as well as the development of initial reduction measures and the next steps on the way to the company’s own climate strategy. In addition, the sustainability team needed support in involving other LCS employees in the sustainability process, which, as in many other companies, was a challenge. Corporate sustainability teams often have an enormous head start over their colleagues in terms of knowledge and process understanding in the area of sustainability. This was also the case at LCS.  

At LCS, the majority of emissions are in Scope 3, i.e. outside the company’s own boundaries, in the upstream and downstream value chain. These emissions are usually very difficult for companies to record and calculate. On the one hand, because they are outside their own operations and therefore often simply lack data or are difficult to obtain. Secondly, because emissions are generated along the entire value chain, i.e. from the extraction of raw materials, through the use of products to end-of-life, i.e. usually up to disposal. The Scope 3 categories are divided into 15 sub-categories, each with its own calculation approaches. Identifying the hotspots here and achieving reliable accounting results is often a very high hurdle for companies.  

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