An invitation lands from CHEP: your business is being asked to join Climate Smart Partners, their programme to cut emissions across the supply chain. It talks about capability building, data sharing and reduction targets. Two questions follow: what are they actually asking of you, and what happens if you don't engage?
About this guide
CO2 Lab is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Brambles or CHEP. This guide explains their publicly announced Climate Smart Partners programme, as at October 2026, to help suppliers respond, and is based on the sources linked below. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
What Climate Smart Partners is
Scope 3, the emissions in its value chain, is more than 97% of CHEP's total footprint. A company cannot hit a science-based target by fixing its own operations alone when almost all of the emissions sit with its suppliers. So CHEP introduced Climate Smart Partners to its in-scope suppliers in February 2025 and launched it formally in December 2025, to cut those value-chain emissions toward Brambles' 2030 targets and net-zero by 2040 ambition.
The first year engages more than 650 suppliers across transportation, timber and subcontracted service centres, which together are about 65% of Brambles' global emissions. If you are one of them, the programme is how your emissions become part of their reporting.
The four things it asks of you
The programme is built on four pillars. Here is what each one means in practice for a supplier.
| Pillar | What it asks of you |
|---|---|
| Capability Building | Take up training and resources to measure and reduce emissions in your category |
| Enablement Programs | Take part in decarbonisation initiatives built for your industry |
| Data Sharing | Share your emissions and your reduction progress, so Brambles can track its Scope 3 |
| Action & Accountability | Set reduction targets, act on them, and report against them over time |
The Data Sharing pillar is the one to prepare for
Capability and enablement are support. The pillar that asks something of you is Data Sharing: your emissions, and your progress against them, shared on a repeating basis. For a transport supplier that means the emissions of the freight you move, which is diesel first. For a timber or service supplier it is your own energy and process emissions.
This is the same request landing on suppliers across the country as larger customers report, just with a name on it. You can see the general shape of it in our guide to a customer asking for your emissions data, and the same ask landing on carriers in our guide to Australia Post's transport partners. What matters most is not a complete footprint on day one. It is a number you can stand behind, with the method visible.
“A programme like this repeats every year and gets more detailed each time. A first number with a clear method beats a precise-looking one with nothing behind it, because next year they will ask you to show your working.”
What a good first response signalsHow to respond as a transport or service supplier
A first Climate Smart Partners response
- Gather twelve months of fuel-card, telematics, gas and electricity records
- Total the litres and kWh, split by vehicle or site where you can
- Apply the current NGA Factors to get Scope 1 and 2 in tonnes CO₂e
- For freight, express it per tonne-kilometre so a reduction shows up next year
- Write two or three sentences on method, and flag what is estimated
Turn the request into a response you can send back. What our AI Sustainability Analyst gives a CHEP supplier:
Answer Climate Smart Partners with something that stands up
Our AI Sustainability Analyst builds a Scope 1 and 2 footprint from your own fuel and energy records, with the method and evidence behind every figure, ready to share.
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