CALCULATE YOUR BASELINE
Automate your emissions map. Start managing instead
Launch your net zero strategy on actionable, portfolio-wide climate performance data from your supply chain's digital twin.
AUTOMATED SUPPLY CHAIN MAPPING
Thousands of climate footprints in weeks
Your emissions map, quicker than ever
Tens, hundreds, thousands of products? Fast, automatic calculations at scale is what software is for. Get your emissions baseline for your entire portfolio in weeks and with minimal data input.
Set meaningful goals – act with an impact
Forget about narrative-driven targets and leverage the results of being data-driven. Pinpoint the most impactful areas for improvement and set quantitative reduction targets you can actually reach.
A digital twin for every product
Ground your climate work on a robust launchpad. Let technology automate the measurements – Put your resources on managing the climate performance of every product in its digital twin and increase data definition as you go.
(noun)
1: The most accurate engine for quick, automated mapping of greenhouse gas emissions for large food portfolios and supply chains.
2: The replacement of manual life cycle assessment.
3: The complete and automated emissions map of a food product portfolio
HOW IT WORKS
Let computers do what they do best
Leave the calculating to the engine made for the job and focus on what you do best – strategize and act on insights.
Input: The data you work with on a daily
No need to go hunting for data. Simply list the portfolio data you already know by heart – product name, ingredients, country of origin, GTIN number – and Initial Mapping will do the rest.
Processing: Automated emissions mapping
Automated mapping's Natural Language Processing engine scans your data input and runs it through CarbonCloud's advanced climate footprint dataset. The engine programmatically matches each product to its supply chain model and calculates its climate footprint at store shelf.
Insights: Full emissions profile of your portfolio
Gain instant intelligence, identify hotspots, set quantitative targets, increase data definition, and start the reduction work!
FAQ
Still too magical? Ask away!
CarbonCloud is a combination of a climate calculator (LCA tool), a supply chain management system, and a database. Every product assessed and published on the platform is available on the platform as an ingredient for other production processes. Everything with market-leading consistency and detail.
At the foundation is the agricultural engine (based on 2006 IPCC guidelines) that calculates the climate performance for agricultural products at farm gate. It comes pre-populated with production system data for close to every commercially grown crop from every country in the world where it is grown. They are all consistently calculated based on the best available data for yields, fertilization, soil types, climate zones, etc.
On top of this, there are thousands of modules for refinement processes and semi-refined products, fuel types, country-specific electricity, and a vast dataset of benchmark products at store shelf.
The data counts in the tens of thousands and is rapidly growing, as CarbonCloud continuously develop the dataset and increase its resolution, and via increasing numbers of farmers, b2b producers and b2c producers joining the platform. All this data is available for users of the platform and a large share of the data is openly available at ClimateHub.
Each footprint is based on input data from high-quality sources. The data available on the CarbonCloud platform mainly derives from three origins:
- Statistics and data from national and international agencies for example the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations or the National Inventory of Submissions of the UNFCCC.
- Relevant scientific literature: if the process ingredients are modeled, we utilize extensive scientific literature which our in-house science team reviews and adapts accordingly.
- User input: the platform learns as users feed production system data into it.
Our calculations and methodology are compatible with ISO 14067 and GHG protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, which are the current standards for LCA studies.
As a starting point to do the initial mapping of your product portfolio, we would ask for the following information on your products:
– Product name
– Bill of Material
– Production location, at least country
– Market where the products are sold
– Packaging material(s)
There is a long list of information that will increase resolution and accuracy, but a relatively short list will do most of the work.
CarbonCloud never asks for GHG emissions for any process. For consistency, all emissions are calculated by the platform. All questions relate to production processes with a focus on readily available information to the producers and suppliers. You don’t need to dive deep into the science or methodology to get the climate footprints of your portfolio. You instantly get the richness of immediate insights while feeding in the data and working on the platform. Everyone quickly becomes a climate expert on their part of the business.
CarbonCloud runs your data through a machine learning algorithm, together with the platform’s library of ingredients, production processes, transport modules, etc., to map out representative supply chains for every ingredient and product. At this stage, your company gets complete and consistent scope 1+2+3 mapping for your portfolio, accompanied by a breakdown per product and per stage in the value chain.
Granularity and precision depend on the amount of information available at the time of the mapping. The insights from Automated mapping will guide the users of the platform as to how best to proceed: Which additional data to collect to increase resolution where it matters the most, which products to focus efforts on, and which suppliers to engage for the highest ROI relating to actionable insights and data.
CarbonCloud is responsible for ensuring that the calculation methodology used on the platform is consistent and accurate according to the latest established research and regulation in the domain. We are also responsible for ongoing maintenance and IT support of the platform. CarbonCloud will ensure that background data on benchmarks are kept up to date, e.g. energy system data, fuel blends, yield levels, etc. When you mobilize your suppliers to get started, CarbonCloud will onboard your suppliers that get connected to the platform. Finally, we educate users of the platform and help train super-users internally as the user base scales up.
Your company is responsible for providing truthful data to the platform and keeping the data up to date. CarbonCloud does not visit suppliers to conduct audits. However, the platform keeps complete event logs to enable auditability at every step, within your company and your suppliers. After Automated Mapping, your company is responsible for managing internal data collection and decarbonization projects that result from the intel of the platform.
NEXT STEP
Start reducing your emissions
Measuring your emissions is a big task but it’s just the beginning. Ready to drop the formalities and move from baseline to reduction?
What they say
From my initial phone call, I knew that CarbonCloud was the right partner for us. They are as fast-moving as we are and understand the importance of our mission. They were supportive every step of the way, from helping us identify the data we needed to collect to teaching us how to use the modelling platform. We really have developed a great partnership, one that will long continue.
What they say
We wanted to impact consumers to drive the change and understand the climate footprint of food. That’s why we decided to calculate the climate footprint of our products with CarbonCloud: To focus on the number that drives this change. For me, printing the climate footprints of each product is the way of helping consumers and ourselves as food brands.
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