Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions are often the most difficult to quantify—both for companies directly responsible for them and for those that must report ultimate responsibility to purchasers and consumers. In this issue’s lead story, AspenTech’s Roch Gauthier proposes to leverage the existing supply chain planning-optimization infrastructure that already is used to evaluate strategic capital-investment decisions to create portfolio-wide product carbon footprints, or PCFs. With this approach, calculating PCFs soon evolves from customer requests to an integral part of better business decision-making.

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