The Beekly: ESG Compliance Manager at SEKO Logistics, Dan Button

​Every Scope 3 inventory eventually runs into the same wall: transportation and distribution emissions that are modeled, not measured — because the primary carriers who actually have the data won't share it, and the shippers who need it are stuck with calculation platforms and a lot of assumptions.

​This week on The Beekly, we're joined by Dan Button, ESG Compliance Manager at SEKO Logistics, a global freight forwarder operating 150+ offices in 60+ countries. Dan spent 10+ years building supplier sustainability programs from the inside — including as the inaugural Procurement ESG Manager at Lamb Weston, where he stood up a 1,200+ supplier risk and sustainability program spanning deforestation, human rights, supplier conduct, and the company's first Scope 3 reduction target. He's now applying that same rigor on the logistics side, where the emissions math gets even harder.

​We'll get into:

• ​Why "primary carrier data" is the industry's biggest open problem — and who's actually incentivized to fix it

• ​What CSRD, CSDDD, and Modern Slavery regulations mean for logistics-heavy supply chains specifically

• ​How SEKO approaches vendor compliance and desktop audits (EcoVadis, CDP) at scale, and what that signals to enterprise buyers

• ​Where SAF book-and-claim programs are real progress vs. where they're a stopgap

• ​What a defensible Scope 3 disclosure actually requires when transportation is your largest emissions category

​If your board, your auditors, or your customers are asking hard questions about supply chain emissions data — this is the conversation that gets past the marketing language.