Documents & FAQ

Documents reltated to carbon footprinting

GHG Protocol – Corporate Standard	When you start the process of calculating your organizational carbon footprint, please do so according to the Corporate Standard of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. The "Standard" is the main source of accounting principles, rules and definitions. It also contains a lot of useful examples and best practices. The document is especially useful for the following steps: Setting the organizational boundary of your footprint (see Chapter 3) Setting the operational boundary of your footprint (see Chapter 4)
GHG Protocol - Technical guidance Scope 3	The goal of this technical Scope 3 Standard is to provide you with a step-by-step approach to cost-effectively understand the impact of your Scope 3 emissions, to support consistent and transparent reporting, and to develop effective reduction measures. This guidance is complementary to the GHG Corporate Standard and can be considered further reading to better understand how to account for Scope 3 emissions. We think the following sections are especially useful if you start with calculating your organizational carbon footprint: Identifying Scope 3 Emissions (Chapter 5) Setting the Scope 3 Boundary (Chapter 6) Collecting Data (Chapter 7)
GHG Protocol – Technical guidance Scope 2	This document introduces accounting and reporting requirements related to Scope 2 emissions. This guidance is complementary to the GHG Corporate Standard, and can be considered further reading to better understand how to account for Scope 2 emissions. Noteworthy are the following sections: How to account Scope 2 emissions if you partly purchase and partly generate your own electricity (page 37-39) Difference between Scope 2 market-based vs. location-based (page 25-27)
Template for emissions reduction	" The Emission Reduction Template provides a structure for suppliers to create a decarbonisation roadmap. The file consists of three sheets: Sheet 1: the template Sheet 2: an example of a completed template Sheet 3: examples of reduction measures A good reduction plan is concrete and complete. Ideally, your total CO2 reductions should add up to your CO2 reduction target. You can also use this Excel template to prioritise reduction measures."

Documents related to carbon targetsetting

Commitment letter	This document must be filled in and send to SBTi to commit the the SBT initiative.
Getting started guide	Overview what to do. The Getting Started Guide for Net Zero and the How To Guide for near-term targets were combined and replaced.
Pricing document	Prices of setting SB-targets
Corporate manual	Step-by-step quidance
FLAG guidance	The SBTi Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) Guidance provides an understanding of setting science-based targets for land-intensive sectors, that include land-based emission reductions and removals. Key requirements of the SBTi FLAG Guidance: Set near-term FLAG science-based targets Account for removals in near-term FLAG science-based targets Set long-term FLAG science-based targets Zero deforestation targets must be set for no later than 2025 Set science-based targets for fossil emissions

Documents related to climate reporting & FAQ

ImpactBuying – GHG emission questionnaire 2024	This document provides an overview of all the questions that we asks our suppliers to report on.
CDP – Climate Change Reporting Guidance 2023	The CDP Climate Change Guidance provides explanation for answering questions, the required format, and where to find tools or further information to construct your answer.
CDP Webinar
ImpactBuying – Userguide	This userguide provides explanation on how to fill out the ImpactBuying climate reporting tool.

Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs on Carbon Footprinting

Which definitions and methodologies do you advise?

For organizational footprinting we strongly advise the GHG Protocol. For product footprinting we advise to align with Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (EC), ISO14067 and/or the LCA norms (ISO 14040/44).

Where to find reliable emission factors?

There are numerous datasets available but not all of them are accessible for free. We suggest to align with your respective industry association to make more specific emission factors available. The following databases are useful for food and beverages:

For Scope 1-2 emission factors the following databases are useful:

For other questions, please refer to Carbon Footprinting or Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

FAQs on Climate Targetsetting

Where can I find more information on the Science Based Targets initiative?

Please refer to the FAQs on Science Based Targets website.

FAQs on Climate Reporting

What should I do if I receive an invite from both CDP and from ImpactBuying?

We ask suppliers only to report once. In case you have received two invitations, you are free to choose which platform you want to use.

I received an invite for multiple subsidiaries, do I need to report for them separately?

No, we ask companies to report on a corporate level and include all the subsidiaries in this report.

I provide products to multiple subsidiaries of Ahold Delhaize (Albert Heijn, AB, Albert, Mega Image, Delhaize Serbia, Delhaize Belgium, ADUSA, Etos, Gall & gall) So I need to report on all of them?

Yes, we expect you to report on all of the Ahold Delhaize subsidiaries, but in one report. There is no need to create a separate report for all of them.

On what level should I report?

The reporting should be done on corporate level.

What are the steps I need to take as a new user of CDP?

Please see the following instructions.

What if I cannot logon to the CDP platform?

Contact CDP via “My Support” in the CDP Help Center.

What if I cannot logon to ImpactBuying?

Please contact ImpactBuying directly via support@impactbuying.com.

If you have other questions around our climate ambitions, please reach out to carbon@delhaize.be