Symrise has been awarded CDP’s top “A” grade in its Supplier Engagement Assessment, a result that underlines how supply chain management is becoming central to corporate climate strategy. The recognition places the German fragrance and ingredients group among the strongest performers in supplier-focused climate action, with CDP assessing how companies work with vendors on emissions, governance, targets and data disclosure.
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pproach that ties procurement more closely to sustainability, while also giving customers more detailed information about the environmental footprint of the materials they buy. According to Symrise, its sourcing model is designed to provide traceability back to raw material origin and to help clients make more informed purchasing decisions as they work towards Scope 3 emissions targets, which cover indirect emissions across value chains.
Dr Isabella Tonaco, Symrise’s chief sustainability officer, said the company’s performance showed the value of linking buying decisions with climate goals. Symrise said it uses supplier partnerships to improve transparency, embed climate criteria into sourcing and gather more robust environmental data across its supply base.
That supplier focus matters because much of a company’s climate impact often sits upstream, in the materials and services it buys. Symrise says it is working with suppliers globally to set shared climate objectives, improve data quality and support emissions reductions in its supply chain. It has also put particular emphasis on traceability projects and programmes aimed at better measuring Scope 3 emissions.
A key part of that effort is a digital platform for carbon data, which Symrise presented at the United Nations climate conference in November 2025. Developed with CO2 AI, the system is intended to provide near real-time emissions analysis at both product and company level, helping identify where reductions can be made along the value chain.
The company has also begun rolling out its Low Carbon Transition Plan. Symrise said this has already highlighted propylene glycol as a strategic raw material, with production using green energy seen as one route to lower-carbon manufacturing.
Alongside that, Symrise is promoting an innovation effort called “Essence of Carbon”, which it says is meant to encourage collaboration across value-chain networks and speed up decarbonisation solutions with partners.
Kathy Ruhle, senior vice-president for global procurement, said the company’s work with suppliers was turning climate strategy into operational change. Symrise said the result is not only stronger supply chains and improved reliability, but also more transparent data and lower-emissions options for customers.
Looking ahead, Symrise says it wants to present a concrete transformation plan for sustainable raw materials by 2028, while also developing a traceability agenda from this year onwards. The company’s next phase will focus on deeper supplier engagement, clearer emissions-reduction pathways and broader efforts to build more resilient and transparent supply chains.
Source: Noah Wire Services
