Industry Roundtable: The Supplier Co-Investment Question — Philanthropy, ROI, or Competitive Moat?
Bain and Company, Villiers House, 40 Strand, London WC2N 5RW, United Kingdom
About this Event
Most Scope 3 programs started as sustainability mandates. Finance and procurement are now stress-testing them. The question companies are wrestling with in practice — but rarely discussing openly — is whether investing capital in supplier decarbonization is an act of goodwill, a returns-positive bet, or a strategic move to lock in low-carbon supply before competitors do.
This roundtable brings together a small group of senior executives who are making these decisions now. No panels, no presentations, no polished case studies. Each participant shares a live bet, a real failure, or a hard-won lesson — and the group works through the questions that don’t yet have clean answers: How do you make the investment case to a CFO? Is low-carbon supply becoming scarce enough to treat as a procurement risk? Who owns this decision internally — and does that determine whether it gets made at all?
Terralytiq and Bain bring deep practitioner insight and a proven approach to turning these conversations into concrete, actionable takeaways — not talking points.
Terralytiq in partnership with Bain & Company
Terralytiq is a supply chain decarbonization platform built for manufacturers who need to move from measurement to action. Where spend-based tools produce emissions estimates with errors up to 1,000x actual values, Terralytiq generates activity-based, product-level carbon footprints — without requiring a full LCA or waiting for suppliers to respond. Its four core modules cover supplier PCF modeling, primary data exchange, decarbonization lever libraries, and PACT v3-compliant product footprinting — giving procurement and sustainability teams the decision-grade data they need to engage suppliers, reduce costs, and meet regulatory obligations including CBAM.
Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm advising the world's leading businesses, governments, and nonprofits on strategy, operations, and transformation. Its sustainability practice works with clients across industries to build the business case for decarbonization — translating net-zero commitments into operational and commercial strategies that hold up under financial scrutiny. Bain brings cross-sector perspective on where decarbonization creates value, where it creates risk, and how leading companies are turning supply chain emissions into a source of competitive advantage rather than compliance overhead.
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