Location and Supply Shed
General Information & Description – 3.2 Location
WHERE:
- Describe intervention and activity locations relevant to various geographies
- Provide a map of the Geographic Boundaries
- Include an assessment of the potential number of activities, georeferenced.
Example of a Table that could be used to describe pertinent Location information
| Intervention 1: Regenerative Agriculture | ||||||
| Activity | Farm | Farm ID | Geography | Size (Area) of Activity on Farm | Georeference (LAT, LONG) | Start Date or Expected Start Date |
| Cover Cropping with legumes | Blueberry Butte Farm | 01.1 | Winter Wheat Supply Shed, Central US | 500 acres | 32 08’59.96″ N, 110 50’09.03″W | May 2022 |
| Cover Cropping with legumes | Old McDonald’s Farm | 01.2 | Winter Wheat Supply Shed, Central US | 100 acres | 27°22’50.10″N, 33°37’54.62″E | January 2023 (expected) |
| Agroforestry, Hedgerows | Pegasus Ranch | 01.3 | Winter Wheat Supply Shed, Central US | 250 acres | 4°17’21.49″ S 31°23’46.46″ E | January 2024 (expected) |
| Intervention 2: Energy Solutions | ||||||
| Activity | Farm | Farm ID | Geography | Size (Area) of Activity on Farm | Georeference (LAT, LONG) | Start Date or Expected Start Date |
| Renewable Energy, Solar | Tumbleweed Hill Farm | 02.1 | North East, United States Milk Shed | 500 square meters | 50° 0’38.20″N 110° 6’48.32″W | June 2022 |
| Renewable Energy, Solar | Dreamweaver Farm | 02.2 | North East, United States Milk Shed | 100 square meters | 41.303921, -81.901693 | January 2023 (expected) |
| Energy Efficiency, LEDs | Daisy Dale Farm | 02.3 | North East, United States Milk Shed | 700 square meters | 20°56’15.47″S, 164°39’30.56″E | February 2024 |
Key Questions
- Can you define the number, location, name, and area of the activities?
It is important to include an assessment of the potential number of activities (i.e., including the georeferenced location of each activity). This can be displayed in a combination of table, map, and narrative – the point is to make the “where” clear to the auditor.
- Can you provide a brief description of the Intervention (or Program) geographical boundaries and location of interventions included to date?
Be as specific as possible when answering this question – the more information the better.
- Can you provide a map of the interventions (and, if applicable, Program geographic boundary)?
Be as specific as possible, including sub-national area, etc.
General Information & Description – 3.3 Supply Shed
Moving on to the term Supply Shed, this isn’t where you keep all your hammers and screwdrivers, at least not in this context! We’ve done our best to define the Supply Shed below, but this topic is also covered in some of our other lessons if you are interested in additional detail.
A Supply Shed can therefore be defined as:
- A group of suppliers in a specifically defined market (e.g., at the sub-national level) providing similar goods and services (commodities) that can be demonstrated to be within the Scope 3 reporting company’s supply chain.
- The concept was introduced to cater to situations where a reporting company may not be able to directly trace sourcing to a specific supplier in the upstream supply chain.
- There’s no need to demonstrate which specific suppliers provide the goods and services, but that they are in the group that do (for example that these suppliers provide material to the company’s direct suppliers).
- Where a company is the direct proponent of an intervention, all production impacted by the intervention can potentially be reported, up to the total amount of goods actually purchased from the group of suppliers, so long as they are within the supply shed.
- Transferable claims align with the GHG-P Scope 3 guidance in that co-claiming of Scope 3 emissions is permissible, as long as those claims occur in different impact layers that source from the defined supply shed.
To further help you visualize a supply shed, here is an example looking at different coffee regions in Brazil
- Is the coffee impacted by the intervention of similar variety, class, and quality? i.e., serving the same market segment?
- Is the impacted coffee regional? If so, how is that region delineated? i.e. by market area/segment, proximity to resources (processing plants, water access), ecological factors (temperature, precipitation, soil type)?
- Are there certification systems (e.g. organic) in place that drive the impacted coffee to serve a different market segment?
- Are there internal grading systems set up by the national government that drive export markets?
- A potential option here: the delineation of supply shed by jurisdictional boundaries, then by species (Robusta or Arabica)?
SUPPLY SHED – Example of describing a Program consisting of agroforestry interventions
Key Questions
- Can you define the primary commodity supply shed within which your intervention is taking place? If a Program, can you define the supply sheds within which your various interventions are taking place?
- Can you detail the total volume of commodities impacted by the intervention(s)?
- Can you describe the type and quality of specific goods in the supply shed?
- Can you indicate how the impacted commodities will be traced?
- Can you provide a map and / or table to depict the supply shed(s)?