While 160 Scope 3 practitioners are gathered in Chicago this week for the Scope 3 Peer Group Strategy Days, the rest of the community can still get a front-row seat.

This latest episode of The Scope 3 Podcast is effectively a Chicago special.

Not only has Ollie been busy hosting one of the biggest gatherings of Scope 3 practitioners anywhere in the world, he’s also been roaming around the Windy City with a microphone, capturing conversations with some of the people shaping what happens next in supply chain decarbonisation.

On this episode you'll hear from:

• Simon Geale (Proxima)
• Emma Friedl (3Degrees)
• Sam Schwartz (Center for Green Market Activation)
• Zach Bathen (Watershed)
• Dr. Sreedevi Rajagopalan (MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab)
• James Lee (Regeneron)
• Kate Joyce (Veolia)

And among the topics discussed:

✅ What procurement leaders are really prioritising right now – and why sustainability has slipped behind volatility, resilience and cost pressure.

✅ The practical reality of supplier engagement: carrots, sticks, incentives, segmentation and what actually works.

✅ The growing debate around market mechanisms, book-and-claim systems, renewable energy procurement and whether companies can invest with confidence under the evolving SBTi framework.

✅ Why some practitioners believe spend-based hotspot analysis is sending companies to the wrong suppliers – and what they should be looking at instead.

✅ The challenge of moving from emissions data to actionable supplier strategies.

✅ What companies are asking about renewable fuels, biogenic emissions and the implications of the latest standards developments.

✅ Why the metals value chain remains one of the biggest decarbonisation opportunities hiding in plain sight.

A big thank you to the team at Watershed for supporting this episode and helping make these conversations possible.

🎧 Remember: all of our previous episodes are available online at www.scope3peergroup.com/podcast.