Zero Carbon Forum launches sustainable product directory

Marketplace from Zero Carbon Forum has launched as a directory of pioneering sustainability products and services dedicated to helping reduce hospitality and brewing operators’ supply chain emissions.

A recent benchmark study by the non-profit members organisation calculated that Scope 3 emissions account for over 90% of overall emissions in the brewing and hospitality sectors. Now operators can use Marketplace to source the latest innovations in carbon-reducing products and services to reduce emissions across all Scopes and reach net zero at pace.

The directory already connects 63 operators in over 35,000 sites to an extensive network of suppliers. The latest brands to join include Clearworld energy solutions, Klimato carbon labelling for restaurants, Delphis Eco plant-based cleaning products, Brakes UK wholesale food supplier, and Circular11, which transforms plastic pollution into a material solution, amongst others.

Further suppliers to recently join Marketplace also include Emissis, specialists in reducing energy consumption technology, True, a technology-led sustainability consulting and reporting business, Agrasta Ltd, a go-to marketplace for low carbon produce, and Footsteps, helping businesses grow in a compliant and sustainable way. These join a roster of well-known brands including Britvic and The London Essence Co, Mitsubishi Electric and Wildfarmed.

Mark Chapman, CEO at Zero Carbon Forum noted that the brewing and hospitality sectors have some of the most complex supply chains with a wide range of suppliers who “may not have the same level of commitment to reducing emissions”, adding: “They also often have limited control over their suppliers’ emissions from the transportation methods to the suppliers they use.

“As a non-profit collaborative group, we are helping the sector and our members to facilitate progress in this area, and to reach net zero at pace, through a measure, plan, reduce, approach. Through our detailed roadmaps, members can take actions to reduce Scope 3 emissions and now, through Marketplace, they can source the best in essential sustainable services and solutions that help accelerate the transformational change the industry needs to make.”