Co-organised by climate advocacy group, Shift Cycling Culture, a new training course to help cycling brands cut supply chain emissions is now live.
Eight cycling companies – Accell, Canyon, Quality Bicycle Products, Rose, Schindelhauer, Schwalbe, Scott, and Trek – have launched free Climate Action Training Course for the cycling industry to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the industry’s global supply chains.
Shift Cycling Culture notes that… ‘The majority of a cycling company’s environmental footprint typically stems from its supply chain – up to 95% of carbon emissions occur during the extraction, sourcing, and production of bicycle materials and components.’
To tackle these emissions and support their business partners, the companies have come together to co-develop the Climate Action Training Course. The online training is tailored to suppliers of cycling hard goods and is available in English (starting on October 29, 2024) as well as in Mandarin and Vietnamese (from mid November onwards).
Aimed at top management and technical mid-management, the free course is designed to raise awareness about the role manufacturing sites play in reducing emissions and to equip them with resources.
The training provides foundational knowledge on measuring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions, how to set reduction targets and monitor progress, as well as relevant case studies of potential solutions to drive down emissions.
This course is open to the entire cycling industry, and all brands are encouraged to use the training as a tool to support their own climate action efforts, as well as those of their business partners.
The initiative has been co-facilitated by Shift Cycling Culture and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), aiming to create a blueprint for future collaborative projects within the industry.
The training was developed with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), as part of its efforts to help companies fulfil due diligence obligations for fair supply chains.
