If you are a sustainability leader at a food & beverage company, you face rising costs, tightening regulation, and targets built on uncertain data. We turn fragmented Scope 3 data and supply risk into audit-ready strategies, credible FLAG targets, and decisions your board can support.
Scope 3 accounts for roughly 88% of F&B emissions, most of it in farming and land use where primary data is hardest to capture. Only 44% of companies with SBTi commitments have made meaningful progress. That gap is where strategies break down.
Operational & Regulatory Risks:
EU consumption drives roughly 10% of global deforestation. EUDR, CSRD, and SBTi FLAG each bring distinct data demands and timelines. Treating them separately makes everything harder than it needs to be:
Drought reduced global cocoa production by 14% in 2023–24. Coffee prices rose 55%. Climate-related losses exceeded $200B in 2024. These are current realities, not future risks.
Without resilience planning:
Nearly 80% of investors view ESG as critical — yet climate reporting in food and beverage is declining. The reason is consistent: organisations cannot link sustainability to financial value clearly enough to win internal support.
The consequences compound:
A 15-minute read looking at steps you can take to engage with your suppliers in order to reduce your emissions.
Agricultural emissions are the hardest to measure and the easiest to challenge. We help you build baselines that don't move, set SBTi-aligned FLAG targets that pass validation, and track progress that holds up — to your board, your auditors, and the regulators coming next year.
✓ Deliverable: Audit-ready FLAG targets with a validated delivery roadmap
EUDR, CSRD, SBTi FLAG — each with its own requirements, timelines, and data needs. We consolidate them into one unified programme so your team stops duplicating effort, your disclosures don’t contradict each other, and you stop worrying about what you might be missing.
✓ Deliverable: Integrated compliance roadmap with a defensible disclosure baseline
Climate risk is already impacting cocoa, coffee, and key commodity pricing. We help you see it early, plan for it properly, and integrate it into the procurement and investment decisions happening right now — not after the next supply shock.
✓ Deliverable: TCFD-aligned risk assessment with actionable resilience strategies
Climate investment stalls when the numbers don't add up internally. We build the financial narrative, the modelling, and the investor-ready disclosures that get your CFO and COO aligned.
✓ Deliverable: Board-ready net zero roadmap with financial case and transition narrative
Your emissions data is fragmented, your baseline is not yet board-ready, and leadership requires a clear return on investment before committing to further action. The regulatory timeline is not waiting.
✓ We help you build a clear, credible foundation — from defensible baseline to board-ready strategy.
Your targets are set, but data confidence is limiting progress. Regulators require evidence. Investors require consistency, and your team is managing EUDR, CSRD, and SBTi with finite internal resources.
✓ We help you move from commitment to verified, auditable targets.
South Pole works with global food and beverage brands to turn climate ambition into measurable progress.
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With over 18 years experience, we can help you navigate challenges and changes in the market.
