Cutting Edge Science

PROBLEM

A Fortune 50 company sought to explore procurement scenarios by comparing unique sources of primary steel and aluminum and measuring the embedded downstream emissions from these commodities in their supply chain.

SOLUTION

TASA deployed Hybrid-Path, combining TASA-EFX country-specific EEIO data, hybridized with Climate Trace process LCA data (satellite-enabled, facility-level capacity data (developed by Climate Trace and GEI). 

TASA produced Hybrid-Path emissions factors for steel and aluminum purchases across the client’s supply base, providing deep, multi-tier, and locationally-specific carbon insights.

OUTCOME

TASA created a parameterized tool that allows the client to compare the emissions from different sources of Steel and Aluminum and procure these metals strategically. This allows for a lower carbon footprint and informs corporate reporting and future compliance with increased regulation under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. 

PROBLEM

A Fortune 15 client sought to engage with its suppliers, align ambition, and secure emissions reductions to meet its Net Zero goals.

SOLUTION

TASA built and currently implements a data-driven supplier engagement program that:

• Utilizes the Hybrid-Path approach to measure supplier-specific emissions footprints for Scope 3, Cat 1 & 2, purchased goods, services, and capital purchases, 
• Supports ongoing supplier engagement toward modeled emissions reduction commitments contributing to a 2030 supply chain wide Net Zero goal, 
• Reports real-time results through external-facing supplier scorecards and internal-facing managerial dashboards to support decision-making

OUTCOME

The program has helped identify millions of dollars of emissions exposure risk in the client’s supply chains, and to date has worked with key suppliers to document >40% emissions reduction commitments, program wide.

PROBLEM

A network of supply chain actors and a semiconductor industry consortium building process-based life cycle inventory data wanted to accurately baseline industrywide emissions and explore reduction scenarios.

SOLUTION

Hybrid-Path emissions factors were defined at the component level using a combination of data from different sources:

• Detailed LCA inventories were used to estimate emissions associated with material and energy flows of wafer fabrication, 
• TASA-EFX National Models (EEIO) were used to estimate emissions generated in design, R&D, and upstream capital and services, 
• Company-provided emissions data were incorporated to estimate device packaging and assembly activities. 

OUTCOME

Each company in the consortium was able to baseline emissions of each characterized component and attribute investments in renewable energy and abatement technologies to emissions reduction targets.. Consortium members were able to estimate the impact of projected interventions and devise strategic sourcing strategies to mitigate the embedded emissions in their value chains.