Sustainability - Embodied Carbon - Workstream - (2025-03-19)

Why It Matters

Low participation threatens the initiative’s goal of creating an industry standard for embodied carbon disclosure; improving ease of response and capturing supplier concerns are critical to securing buy‑in and enabling OCP to formalize a usable carbon‑reporting spec.

Summary

The working group reported weak supplier uptake of its Carbon Disclosure Forum v1.1 pilot, launched at the global summit in October: only five submissions have been received against a target of ~20 suppliers (up to 100 products). To boost responses in the final 10 days of the pilot, organizers revised the form to stress submissions are non‑public, streamlined it to a ~5‑minute effort, and added a direct feedback option for those who cannot provide data. A one‑day debrief workshop is scheduled for April 2 in Atlanta to consolidate learnings, produce v2 of the questionnaire for the late‑April Dublin regional summit, and draft a technical spec for OCP approval. Subgroups are also evaluating survey platforms and questionnaire refinements based on supplier feedback.

Original Description

Public call recording of Sustainability - Embodied Carbon workstream.