Before you start

This planner is a separate, additional step from your regular Kingfisher data request — it doesn't pull in anything you've already submitted there, even where the two ask about similar things.

The planner covers Scope 3, Category 1 — the emissions embedded in the materials you purchase to make products, such as steel, aluminium, plastics, engineered timber, and paint ingredients. Only the material itself matters, not what you make with it — for example, if you buy brass to make handles, taps, or screws, all of that purchasing counts as brass. It's aimed at suppliers who buy meaningful volumes of these (or other) materials; if one only makes up a small part of what you purchase, there's no need to add it here. Your Scope 1 and 2 operational emissions are planned separately, in Scope 1 & 2 emissions.

• You'll need a Secaro account and to be logged in — the planner isn't accessible without logging in, even if you've been sent a direct link to it. 
• Have the following data ready, where you have it:
  • Your baseline year — the most recent year you have complete purchasing data for
  • The amounts, in tonnes, of each material you've purchased from your tier one supplier in that year
  • Supplier-reported carbon intensity figures where available (tCO₂e per tonne purchased) — Secaro fills in a regional default automatically if you don't have these
  • Your expected growth in purchasing volumes across your planning horizon
  • Your proposed net zero year — for example, 2050

💡 You don't need exact figures to get started. Estimates are fine — you can come back and refine them at any time.

1. Open the Kingfisher reduction planner

1. Go to Sign in · Emissions Reduction Planner
2. Log in using you Secaro account information

The planner is available to any Secaro supplier, not only Kingfisher's, so it's worth using even if you haven't had a Kingfisher request.

2. Build your baseline

1. Enter your baseline year.

2. Enter the amounts, in tonnes, purchased from your tier one supplier for each material — you don't need to trace the material back to its raw source.

3. Enter your own carbon intensity figures where you have them, or leave the field blank to use Secaro's regional default. Every source and assumption behind the regional default figures is listed in the Method Statement on this step.

4. If a material you buy isn't in the default list, select Add a custom material, name it, and add the amount purchased. 

5. If you know the carbon intensity figure, add it in — if not, select Suggest with AI for automated carbon intensity and decarbonization figures based on the name.

6. Once everything has been added, select Continue to Growth & Targets.

Carbon intensity is simply how much carbon it takes to make one tonne of a material, written as tonnes of CO₂e per tonne (tCO₂e/t). The figures cover everything up to the point the material leaves the factory that made it — extracting or growing the raw material, processing it, and manufacturing it into the material you buy. What happens afterwards — transporting it, using it, disposing of it — is counted elsewhere.

⚠️ One current limit to know about, at the time of writing: regional default figures don't yet cover every region — South America and Australia aren't currently included in the published industry data Secaro draws on. If you buy from one of these regions, use the global average, or enter your own figure if you have one.

3. Set your growth and reduction target

1. Enter your expected annual growth rate for your purchase volumes. If your growth rate will change over time, select + Add Growth Period to add more than one period, each with its own start year, end year, and rate

   

    

2. Enter your annual reduction rate. Secaro suggests 4% a year as a starting point, and notes this roughly aligns with 1.5°C-aligned scenarios for industrial supply chains.

3. Set your plan end year using the slider — typically your net zero target year.

   

    

4. Check the resulting target reduction shown against your baseline year — for example, a 4% annual rate against a 2050 plan end year shows as a 90% reduction, which Secaro treats as net zero. The Projection Preview chart compares two lines: Business as Usual (your emissions with no reduction action) and your Reduction Target (the trajectory your chosen rate implies), both updating live as you adjust your inputs.
5. Once you're happy with your target, select Continue to Initiatives.
   
   

4. Choose your initiatives

1. For each material, review Secaro's four preset decarbonization levels — Entry, Intermediate, Advanced, and Near-zero — each showing a maximum carbon intensity target for that material.
2. For some materials and levels, you can meet the requirement either by hitting that intensity target or by committing to source from a supplier with a validated SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative) target instead.
3. Turn on the levels you're planning to work toward, and turn off any that don't apply to you.
4. For each level you've turned on, set the year you'll start asking your suppliers for it, and the year you expect to have it in place.
   

💡 Because you don't directly control how your materials are made, these levels are about asking your own suppliers to reduce the carbon intensity of what they sell you, rather than changes you make internally. Your selections here directly shape the forecast on the next step — the page keeps a running count of how many levels you've selected and across how many materials.

5. Check your dashboard

The Timeline tab shows three lines: Business as Usual, your Reduction Target, and your Planned Pathway — the trajectory your actual selected initiatives add up to. Compare the Planned Pathway against your Reduction Target to see whether your chosen initiatives are enough to hit your goal, or whether you need to add more, or move some earlier.

 Below the chart, you can drag each material's timeline bars to change when you start or complete a level, and the Planned Pathway updates as you do. The Gap Analysis tab shows this same comparison as a shortfall — how far your selected initiatives currently fall short of your reduction target, so you can see at a glance whether you need to commit to more, or move any of them earlier.

Select View Action Plan to progress to the next view. 

6. Add to your Action Plan

1. Review your committed initiatives, grouped by material, with their start and completion years.
   
   
    
2. Select the facility these commitments belong to.
3. Choose which committed initiatives to add.
4. Select Add to reduction plan.
   
   

Some committed initiatives may not have a matching action in Secaro yet, and can't be added this way — the page will tell you if that's the case for any of yours.

What happens next

The initiatives you add appear in your Secaro Action Plan for that facility, under the Supply chain actions focus area, as Planned actions you can then move into progress as you act on them.

Kingfisher won't see this planner itself — none of your baseline data, carbon intensity figures, or growth and reduction settings are shared with them. The only thing Kingfisher can see is whatever actions you choose to add to your Action Plan as a result of using it.

Remember, this planner is for building your reduction plan — it isn't how you report your emissions to Kingfisher. Reporting happens separately, through your regular Kingfisher data request, where you're asked whether you have a plan to reduce emissions for each material you buy, and whether that plan is quantified and signed off by senior management. It's your answer to that question — not whether you've used this planner — that determines whether Kingfisher counts your plan as compliant. If you don't have a plan yet, this planner is a good place to start building one.

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