The US-based Sustainable Herbs Initiative (SHI) is a non-profit organization that provides a platform for companies along the herbal value chain to collaboratively advance sustainability throughout their supply chains.
Calculating emissions along the supply chain poses significant challenges for companies in the herbal sector.
This issue is of central importance to the Sustainable Herbs Initiative, as sustainable change first requires transparency, and successful implementation requires the combined efforts of many market participants.
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The overarching goal of the project is to promote industry-wide collaboration in order to advance sustainability as a whole. Specifically, the aim is to share knowledge and establish common processes, with the long-term goal of building a shared, industry-wide database that will benefit all market participants.
The approach was based on a Scope 3 working group within the Sustainable Herbs Initiative, initially comprising eight companies from the tea and herbal industry (including Yogi Tea and Traditional Medicinal) that collaborated with suppliers located around the world across various production systems.
The project made significant progress in addressing the initial challenges:
Supplier motivation is more critical to data collection than the selection of raw materials. Gaps in the standards for the agriculture and land use sector, as well as the lack of guidelines addressing the specific characteristics of the herbal sector, call for even more comprehensive industry-wide collaboration.
The customer plans to take the following next steps:
With standardized emission factors and a shared database, transparency becomes a competitive advantage.
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