Contribute your climate data.
Gain insights, visibility, and control.
Help your customer meet climate goals and unlock value for your own business — all with zero risk to your trade secrets and no added admin burden.
What is CarbonCloud?
Think of the CarbonCloud platform as the LinkedIn for the Food & Beverage supply chain — a trusted network where suppliers and buyers connect seamlessly to share climate data.
Footprint data flows automatically and securely across the network, eliminating silos and manual effort. Once you add your information, it instantly updates everywhere it’s needed, giving buyers and suppliers real-time, reliable insights without extra work.
Why you have been invited to collaborate
Your customer uses CarbonCloud to calculate and reduce their product carbon footprint, and they have invited you to collaborate because your product plays an essential role.
By joining, you will:
- Help your customer achieve their climate goals through accurate, shared data
- Get access to your own product’s calculated carbon footprint
- Unlock insights and reduction opportunities that strengthen your business over time
What you get as a supplier
Keep control of your sensitive data
You only share the information your customer needs: the product footprint. Your recipes, trade secrets, and sensitive IP remain fully protected, with GDPR and ISO compliance built in.
Get your carbon footprint calculated automatically
CarbonCloud calculates a verified footprint for each of your products with the activity data you provide. You can benchmark your performance against peers and use the data to support credible climate claims.
Plan reductions and strengthen your business position
Use data-driven insights to identify opportunities for lowering emissions. Negotiate contracts with reduction clauses across the value chain, both upstream and downstream.
Quantify and showcase your climate initiatives
Demonstrate to your customers how your reduction initiatives are making an impact. Build trust and strengthen partnerships by providing transparent, data-backed results.
Increase your visibility with customers
Showcase yourself as a climate-smart supplier to both existing and potential customers. By contributing data, you strengthen buyer relationships and position your business as a long-term partner.
Save time with seamless data sharing
Skip the spreadsheets, manual calculations, and double entry. Your updates flow automatically across connected customers, enabling instant collaboration without endless back-and-forth emails.
How it works
- Accept your customer’s invitation. Join the CarbonCloud platform to start collaborating.
- Contribute your data. Enter your activity data directly, or invite your own suppliers to contribute theirs.
- See instant results. Get your calculated footprint updated in real time across the supply chain, with clear hotspots and reduction opportunities.
- Stay in control. Set your visibility preferences — only the footprint you choose to share will be visible to others.
Get started
You’ve already been invited by your customer. Now it’s your turn to take the next step.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are supply chain emissions important?
FOOD PRODUCERS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS.
The majority of emissions for food products come from the deep end of the supply chain.
Consumer-facing food producers have less and less access to emissions data the further down the supply chain they go.
The less access they have to data, the less they can do to reduce the climate footprint and reach their climate targets. Your client knows that they will only reach their targets with your collaboration.
How can food & beverage suppliers help?
IT STARTS WITH YOUR INGREDIENTS.
Your supplied products are the next step in tracing emissions down the supply chain.
You can help your clients approach their climate targets by sharing the climate footprint of your products with data access you and only you have.
CarbonCloud makes this process fully automatic. Based on your data input, your climate footprint of your products is digitally calculated and the final footprint is shared digitally with your client on their end of the platform.
Why does my product have a carbon footprint assigned to it?
- You or your company added it directly to CarbonCloud - If you've worked with us to calculate your product's footprint, this represents your actual data.
- One of your customers is using CarbonCloud to calculate their Scope 3 emissions - If you haven't directly worked with CarbonCloud, your product may appear because one of your customers (wholesalers or retailers) needs to calculate emissions for their entire product assortment, including products they purchase from you.
How is my product's carbon footprint calculated?
The calculation method depends on your level of involvement:
If you haven't been involved in the calculation (autogenerated footprint): Your product's footprint is calculated using top-level food category averages. This means we assign emissions based on the general food product category (e.g., dairy products, baked goods, meat products, beverages) rather than your specific product's actual production data. While this provides a reasonable estimate for Scope 3 reporting purposes, it may not reflect the unique characteristics of your ingredients, manufacturing process, or supply chain.
If you work directly with CarbonCloud: We calculate your product's footprint using your actual activity data, including specific ingredients, energy use, transportation, and packaging information - resulting in a much more accurate, product-specific carbon footprint.
The footprint seems too high/low for my product. Is this accurate?
- Your food production process may be more or less efficient than the category average
- Your specific ingredients or sourcing may differ from typical products in that category
- Your energy sources and production methods may vary
- Your transportation methods and distances may be different
- Your packaging choices may be more or less sustainable
- Your agricultural practices (if applicable) may have different environmental impacts
Can I get a more accurate footprint for my products?
- Specific ingredients and raw materials used
- Sourcing locations and agricultural practices
- Energy consumption and energy sources in production facilities
- Food processing methods and efficiency measures
- Transportation modes (truck, ship, rail, air)
- Distances traveled from production to distribution
- Fuel types used for transportation
- Types of packaging materials used
- Weight and volume of packaging
- Recyclability and sustainability features
How do I provide this additional data?
Carboncloud can help you gather and input the specific activity data for your products. This will result in a much more accurate, product-specific carbon footprint rather than a category estimate.
To get started with improving your product's footprint accuracy, contact Carboncloud at: support@carboncloud.com
What are the benefits of providing more detailed data?
- Get a more accurate carbon footprint that truly represents your product
- Potentially demonstrate that your product has a lower environmental impact than the category average
- Identify opportunities to reduce your actual carbon footprint
- Better communicate your sustainability efforts to customers
- Meet growing regulatory and customer demands for environmental transparency
How long does it take to get a more accurate footprint?
The timeline depends on the complexity of your products and how readily available your activity data is. Carboncloud can provide you with a more specific timeline when you contact them with details about your products.
Is there a cost associated with getting a more accurate footprint?
For specific pricing and service details, please contact Carboncloud directly at support@carboncloud.com. They can discuss options that work for your business size and needs.
I don't have all the detailed data you mentioned. Can I still improve my footprint?
Yes! Even partial data can significantly improve accuracy. Carboncloud can help you identify which data points would have the biggest impact on accuracy and guide you through the process of gathering available information.
What happens to my data?
YOUR RECIPE STAYS WITH YOU.
The data input you provide is uploaded and stored in and end-to-end encrypted folder.
Your data input is used exclusively to calculate the representative climate footprint of your products and is not shared with your clients or suppliers.
Your clients will only receive the final climate footprint as a fully calculated number without disclosing anything from your recipe, ingredients, processes, or secret sauce. The final footprint number will also remain hosted on ClimateHub, where you can share it with other clients who ask for it.
Learn more about supplier engagement
Learn more about supply chain engagement.
"I started investigating the market a few years ago and I found CarbonCloud to be the best-in-class solution globally – I have yet to see a solution that matches CarbonCloud’s way of working with Scope 3 emissions. Risk mitigation is another great advantage of CarbonCloud: Any historical changes to the calculation of a footprint, any changes can be backtracked so the process is covered.
Christoffer Carlsmose
Head of Corporate Sustainability at Menigo
Let’s talk about how CarbonCloud can power your journey to accurate, scalable, supplier-driven emissions data.
