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Supplier Engagement Programme Supplier Recognition

October 2025: In the second year of JAC’s Scope 3 Supplier Engagement Programme (SEP), we have introduced Recognition Badges for suppliers to recognise their action in managing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. These include “Committed to Climate” badges for suppliers who have improved significantly and “Climate Award” badges for suppliers who have achieved high standards of carbon management as part of our SEP maturity assessment.
The following suppliers achieved the Gold Climate Award (awarded to 9 suppliers with an overall maturity level of 5 and an overall score of 90% or more):
Accenture
Cellnex Telecom SA
Cisco Systems, Inc
Ericsson
Giesecke+Devrient GmbH
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
NOKIA
Sodexo
Wipro
The following suppliers achieved the Silver Climate Award (awarded to 5 suppliers with an overall maturity level of 5 and an overall score of 85% – 89.9%):

Arcadyan Technology Corporation
Ciena Corp.
Lenovo Group Limited
Netcracker, an NEC Company
Swiss Post

The following suppliers achieved the Bronze Climate Award (awarded to 3 suppliers with an overall maturity level of 5 and an overall score below 85%):

 

Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd 
Sogeti Nerderland BV
VINCI – Bronze Climate Award

The following suppliers achieved the Committed to Climate Badge (awarded to 27 suppliers who have improved their overall maturity significantly versus the prior year – increased from level 0-2 by 2 levels or from levels 3-4 by 1 level):

Accenture
Cellnex Telecom SA
Ericsson
NOKIA
Wipro
Arcadyan Technology Corporation
Ciena Corp.
Lenovo Group Limited
Swiss Post
Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd
VINCI
Action Electrical Ltd
Canon Inc.
Concentrix
CTDI SRL
Dixon Networks Corporation
EKINOPS

Fonex Data Systems Inc
F-Secure
Genexis Netherlands B.V.
Global Broadband Inc
Huber + Suhner AG
Juniper Networks, Inc
Multinet
SPIE SA
SPL Tele GmbH & Co KG
World Wide Technology

The JAC Scope 3 Supplier Engagement Programme (SEP)

 

The JAC Scope 3 Supplier Engagement Programme (SEP) is a collaborative engagement programme aimed at assessing and improving the maturity of ICT suppliers in managing their Greenhouse Gas emissions.

Based on assessment of Joint Alliance for CSR (JAC) member Scope 3 carbon footprints, the SEP programme targets the 500-1,000 most significant suppliers each year across the Tier 1 ICT supply chain.

In 2025, 734 companies were assessed and segmented into a 5-level maturity model. During June and July 2025, four webinars were held for over 200 webinar registrants with the objective of building capability of the suppliers through sharing best practices.

Webinars were customised by supplier maturity levels and sectors, and included topics such as:

  • ♦ Setting science-based emissions reduction targets
  • ♦ Scope 1, 2 and 3 reduction levers
  • ♦ Fleet decarbonisation and electric vehicle (EV) pilot projects
  • ♦ Linking Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) to organisational decarbonisation
  • ♦ The value of stakeholder engagement and industry collaboration in managing emissions.

 

SEP Maturity Assessment Methodology

 

Suppliers were selected for recognition based on their scores within the SEP Maturity Model. Suppliers are scored based on GHG emissions-related attributes across four categories:

  • 1. Strategy
  • 2. Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
  • 3. Emissions Reduction
  • 4. Communication and Engagement

Based on their scores at each level, suppliers are placed on one of five levels of maturity. A minimum score of 55% at each level is required to progress to the next level. The graphic below shows the types of measures used at each level of the maturity model:

Based on these scores and levels, suppliers were recognised according to their performance in 2025 and based on their year-on-year improvement from 2024 to 2025.

JAC would like to thank all suppliers who participated in the SEP and congratulate all the companies selected for recognition in 2025.

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