The Age of Product Compliance: What 2026+ Policy Landscape Means for Manufacturers | 2026 Global Decarbonization Forum

The Age of Product Compliance: What 2026+ Policy Landscape Means for Manufacturers | 2026 Global Decarbonization Forum

At the Global Decarbonization Forum 2026, (Manager Enterprise Solutions, carbmee) and Andrew Griffiths (Co-Founder, Carbon Accounting Alliance (CAA)) get candid about the gap between where companies think they are on carbon data and where they actually need to be, and why that gap is closing faster than most businesses realize.

The policy cascade is real, and it has already reached further than most compliance teams have accounted for. But the more important insight from the session is this: the companies asking for carbon data from their suppliers are not waiting for regulation to tell them to. The market is already doing it. And the businesses that are not ready are not just facing a compliance problem. They are facing a commercial one.

Florian and Andrew outline why the companies that will win the next decade are not the ones reacting to each new regulation as a separate project, they are the ones building a single product-level data foundation that makes every regulation an output, not a crisis. That means giving procurement and supply chain teams the ownership and the tools to act on carbon data operationally, not just report on it centrally. And it means aligning incentives throughout the organization the same way finance already does: every team understanding the role it plays, every measurement connected to a target, every target connected to a plan.

Watch now to find out why the bottom-up approach is the only one that actually scales.