P&G, PepsiCo and Smurfit Executives Map the Path to Scaling Supply Chain Decarbonization

At a United Nations Nest Campus panel, top procurement and sustainability leaders from three global companies laid out concrete examples of how brands and suppliers are collaborating to cut Scope 3 emissions — and named the systemic barriers still standing in the way.

• P&G's Tide Evo, a decade in the making, shows sustainable products can match conventional performance without a green premium — using fully recyclable, FSC-certified packaging and cold-water chemistry
• Carbon is now measured alongside cost in P&G's supplier evaluations, with 90% of the company's emissions sitting in Scope 3
• PepsiCo reaches 4.7 million acres of regenerative agriculture engaging over 20,000 farmers, with a 2-million-acre Walmart partnership targeting 2030
• Panelists call for carbon accounting reform, arguing current Greenhouse Gas Protocol and SBTI rules block the scale of investment needed in hydrogen, bio-based materials, and carbon capture
• Smurfit and PepsiCo co-develop a virtual power purchase agreement aggregating renewable electricity demand across the supply chain

Why it matters: The consumer goods industry has struggled for years with a core tension — sustainable products that underperform lose customers, while green premiums make them commercially unviable. Tide Evo is designed to prove that tension is solvable.