AI supporting supplier carbon compliance

SPIE works with thousands of suppliers across its operations, creating a complex challenge for sustainability teams: ensuring CO₂ compliance across the entire supply chain.

Manually verifying whether each supplier meets emissions standards is a slow, repetitive process that struggles to keep pace with the size and complexity of SPIE's supplier base.

Fact sheet

  • Subsidiary: SPIE Belgium
  • Year: 2026
  • Tags: AI, Sustainability, Innovation
  • Status: Completed

To address this operational bottleneck, SPIE Belgium developed an AI assistant (Sustainability Agent Checker) built on Microsoft Copilot that automatically screens suppliers for CO₂ compliance.

The solution scans public sources and checks certifications such as SBTi (Science Based Targets initiative), EcoVadis and ISO 50001, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual searches.

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The AI agent classifies each supplier into one of three categories:

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Likely compliant

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To be confirmed

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Unlikely to be compliant

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Fact sheet

  • Subsidiary: SPIE Belgium
  • Year: 2026
  • Tags: AI, Sustainability, Innovation
  • Status: Completed


This intelligent categorisation enables sustainability teams to prioritise their efforts and focus on suppliers requiring deeper verification, while automatically clearing those meeting standards. The agent does the heavy lifting, transforming weeks of manual work into automated, consistent screening.

By leveraging AI capabilities, SPIE creates a scalable solution that can grow alongside its supplier network, ensuring continuous oversight of supply chain emissions without proportionally increasing manual workload.

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Scope 3 impact

This solution enables SPIE to assess suppliers' CO₂ compliance, directly addressing Scope 3 emissions across the supply chain. By checking suppliers' greenhouse gas reporting and emissions reduction targets, it strengthens SPIE's control over indirect emissions, often the largest component of a company's carbon footprint.

The tool's strong scaling potential makes it particularly valuable for managing emissions across thousands of supplier relationships in a noteworthy field of application for corporate decarbonisation.