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Sustainability at Shop!

The SHOP! Association plays a pivotal role in shaping industry practices, advocating for their members, and driving collective action. In today’s global landscape, sustainability has emerged as a key priority for businesses across various sectors including store fixturing and point of purchase display manufacturing.

Recognizing the importance of sustainability in maintaining competitiveness and addressing societal challenges, the SHOP! Association developed and implement Shop! Path Zero a sustainability system for its members which is based on the GHG (Green House Gas protocol).

What is the GHG Protocol?

GHG Protocol establishes comprehensive global standardized frameworks to measure and manage greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from private and public sector operations, value chains and mitigation actions.

A company’s greenhouse gas emissions are classified into three scopes:

  • Scope 1 covers (direct) emissions from sources that an organization owns or controls directly – for example from burning fuel in our fleet of vehicles (if they’re not electrically-powered).
  • Scope 2 are (indirect) emissions that a company causes indirectly and come from where the energy it purchases and uses is produced. For example, the emissions caused when generating the electricity that we use in our buildings would fall into this category.
  • Scope 3 encompasses (indirect) emissions that are not produced by the company itself and are not the result of activities from assets owned or controlled by them, but by those that it’s indirectly responsible for up and down its value chain. An example of this is when we buy, use and dispose of products from suppliers. Scope 3 emissions include all sources not within the scope 1 and 2 boundaries.

Source/Courtesy: GHG Protocol