Episode 43: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative and Electricity Maps
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n this episode of the Scope 3 Podcast, Ollie, Tom and Dexter take stock of where Scope 3 really is right now – what’s changed, what hasn’t, and why many organisations feel a growing pressure to move from counting emissions to actually cutting them.
Drawing on fresh insight from the Scope 3 Peer Group, the conversation explores how expectations are shifting: away from data foundations and broad supplier engagement, and towards targeted action, business cases, and measurable reductions embedded in procurement.
Together, they cover:
Why turning data into supplier action has overtaken data collection as the number one challenge
What’s changed in the last 12 months
The move from involving procurement to expecting procurement to own Scope 3 delivery
Why business cases now matter more than case studies
How credibility, proof of reductions and standards confusion are shaping decision-making
Why 2026 is shaping up to be the year of 'less counting, more cutting'
Then, Ollie is joined by Bridget Ferrari from Takeda and Devin Carsdale from Bristol Myers Squibb to go inside the work of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI).
They explore what large-scale collaboration actually looks like in practice, including:
How pharma companies are aligning around common asks without overwhelming suppliers
What it really takes to run collective decarbonisation programmes at scale
Why maturity-based supplier engagement matters
How commercial signals – contracts, incentives and procurement leadership – drive change
Finally, Tom is joined by the brilliant Olivier Corradi, founder of Electricity Maps, to explore how electricity data is reshaping climate action. They discuss:
Why annual averages hide the real impact of electricity emissions
How hourly, location-based data changes decisions and enables real reductions
The role electricity plays in both Scope 2 and Scope 3 – especially through cloud, data and digital services
How companies like Google are using electricity data to shift load, reduce emissions and cut costs
Why the energy transition is simpler than we often make it – at least up to 70–80% renewables
