A new sustainability pact has entered the chat, uniting twelve UK telcos promising to reduce emissions. We’ve heard this story before. Something a bit more original and significant here is that this allegiance centers on reducing the oh-so-important upstream and downstream supply chain emissions, otherwise categorized under scope 3 emissions. While many companies focus on reducing direct scope 1 and 2 emissions, they often represent infinitesimally less than scope 3. Taking British Telecom (BT) as an example, its 2022/23 scope 3 carbon accounting report says 95% of all the group’s emissions are scope 3. This group of major UK connectivity providers, which includes BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media O2, have agreed to team up to reduce scope 3 emissions…