Value Chain Intervention

Make measurable progress on your Scope 3 emissions with solutions built around the sectors, commodities and supply chains your business depends on.

Why it matters

Your footprint reaches well beyond your own operations. It’s in the crops your suppliers grow and the steel and concrete you build with. For most companies, Scope 3 can account for upwards of 90% of their total footprint, and it’s the hardest part to influence directly.

Value Chain Intervention, sometimes called insetting, directs climate finance to the commodities and activities behind those emissions. That can mean funding lower-carbon practices among the producers in your sourcing regions, or purchasing Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) tied to reductions in the same commodities you buy, such as cement and steel.

Where we work

We develop and source projects that create value chain interventions across the commodities that make up corporate value chains, with our deepest activity today in agriculture and industrial materials.

Agriculture

For food, beverage, apparel, and other companies that depend on agricultural commodities and for the producers who grow them, we fund lower-carbon practices across crops, livestock, and land in the regions your business sources from. Supported practices include:

Manure methane capture, including lagoon cover-and-flare and digesters

Nitrogen and fertilizer management

Regenerative cropping practices

Built Environment

For companies that buy carbon-intensive materials such as steel and concrete and for the producers who make them, we help bring lower-carbon production to market, giving buyers access to EACs tied to reductions in the same commodities they purchase:

Clinker substitution with supplementary cementitious materials

Biocarbon in electric arc furnace steelmaking

Carbon capture and storage at cement and steel plants

Why value chain intervention

Every program we build is designed to stand up to review by auditors, target validators, and your own customers.

Matched to your supply chain

No two footprints are alike. We build a portfolio of interventions and EACs around the commodities and sourcing regions associated with your emissions.

Credible by design

Reductions are quantified under published methodologies, verified by independent third parties, and issued and retired on a registry. Contracts set out who holds each claim, so the same tonne is never counted twice.

Finances new supply

Multi-year offtake and floor-price contracts give producers the revenue certainty they need to finance new lower-carbon capacity.

Stronger supply chains

Many interventions do more than cut emissions. They support more resilient farms and a more secure supply of lower-carbon materials for the products your business relies on.

The standards are catching up

Standards and accounting frameworks are evolving to give companies more ways to support decarbonization within the value chains they depend on, including through market-based instruments such as EACs. How different approaches are accounted for and claimed continues to develop. Anew helps clients understand the solutions available today while staying adaptable as guidance evolves.

Why Anew Climate

For more than 20 years, Anew Climate has developed and commercialized emission reduction and removal projects across agriculture, forestry, industry, energy, and transportation. We work on both sides of the transaction: with producers to bring new environmental attributes to market, and with corporate buyers to source them. That reach lets us build a portfolio around your supply chain instead of steering you to a single product.