(C12.1d) Give details of your climate-related engagement strategy with other partners in the value chain.
Question dependencies
This question only appears if you select “Yes, other partners in the value chain” in response to C12.1.
Change from last year
No change
Rationale
While engaging with suppliers is considered best practice, some companies may find it appropriate to work with other aspects of their value chain beyond customers and suppliers. This question provides investors and data users with more transparency into companies' engagement strategies beyond the standard or expected parties.
Connection to other frameworks
SDG
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production
NZAM (FS only)
Commitment 8
Response options
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General
- Note that your answer to this question should only include information not captured in C12.1a or C12.1b, and therefore only be pertinent to elements of your value chain that are not suppliers or customers. Please ensure that you explicitly identify which value chain partners you are referring to in your response.
- Provide a company-specific description of your climate-related engagement strategy, including methods of engagement, how you prioritize engagements with other elements of your value chain, and how you measure the success of these engagements.
- Methods of engagement could include, but are not limited to:
- one to one meetings or written correspondence
- collaborative projects
- holding training events
- advertising, etc.
- Your strategy for prioritizing engagements should detail how you have chosen the parts of the value chain as well as the individual partners to focus your engagement on.
- Detail how you have, or propose to, measure success and any positive outcomes achieved in the reporting year.
- Provide an example or case study of your engagement with other partners in the value chain.
