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• Supply Chains: The Hidden Giant

  When organisations talk about reducing emissions, the focus often lands on what they directly control: energy use, travel, buildings. Yet for most, this only touches a fraction of the problem. The bulk of emissions—often 70–90%—sit hidden within supply chains.These emissions are often ignored precisely because they are so complex. Thousands of suppliers, fragmented data, and services that resist simple measurement all create the impression that meaningful progress will take years. But that assumption is increasingly outdated.

  Across multiple sectors, organisations are already achieving 5–10% reductions in supply chain emissions, alongside comparable cost savings, by applying AI-powered optimisation and proven methodologies.

• Climate-Resilient, Low-Carbon Supply Chains

  Healthcare supply chains are among the most complex and demanding in operation—balancing cost, resilience, regulation, and reliability at scale. For that reason, they provide some of the clearest lessons on how climate resilience and emissions reduction can be delivered in practice.

  The event will draw on real-world experience from healthcare to explore climate-resilient, low-carbon supply chain strategies that are applicable far beyond a single sector. While grounded in healthcare, the focus is on approaches and principles that any organisation with a complex supply chain can adapt and apply.

• Services Emissions: The Overlooked Majority

  While product supply chains receive increasing attention, services emissions—from activities such as facilities management, professional services, and outsourced operations—remain poorly understood and under-measured. In many organisations, they account for a significant share of total emissions but sit outside traditional tracking and optimisation efforts.The event will examine how better data, clearer categorisation, and new analytical approaches are beginning to make services emissions not only visible, but actionable, opening up another major opportunity for cost and carbon reduction.