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About Carbmee & Decarbonization

Frequently asked questions and their answers about EIS carbon management solution of carbmee.

Our product can be used by customers interested in measuring and reporting their carbon emissions. However, it goes beyond that. It was designed for reduction – helping customers to make data-driven decisions based on factual information about their value chain emissions and achieve net-zero targets in a cost-efficient way.

Most of our competitors’ platforms use spend-based calculation alone, which isn’t precise enough to include primary, operations data or provide results that can help companies identify actionable hotspots. Our approach is to use both spend-based and activity-based calculations for the most thorough and precise results possible. 

We provide spend-based calculation to set a baseline for Scope 1 and 2 as well as to identify hotspots if needed. At the same time, we guide our users towards collecting and growing their emissions data within the organization and increasing activity-based data coverage. 

We provide activity-based calculation to tackle emissions that can be the most difficult to measure throughout the value chain, i.e. Scope 3. While many competitors avoid using activity-based calculations due to their complexity, carbmee has streamlined the process, to deliver on results that are 30% more accurate and actionable insights for carbon reduction strategies. 

What makes carbmee different from its competitors?

We have developed our own categorization for how we break down all of your company’s emissions, which are:

      Company Carbon Footprint...

calculates CO2e emissions across your entire company, i.e. all suppliers, internal processes and products;

covers all phases of the company, i.e. Scope 1, 2, and 3;

fulfills regulatory and sustainability reporting requirements;

enables identification of strategic reduction opportunities.

Product Carbon Footprint...


enables carbon reduction along the product development process;

commonly required to win tenders, report on progress, and comply with regulations.

Supplier Carbon Footprint...


calculates climate impact across all suppliers;

covers all phases of the supply chain, i.e. Scope;

identifies cross-supplier/category reduction opportunities;

enables collaboration with suppliers for joint carbon reduction.

What kind of carbon footprints do you calculate?

Yes, our solution is system-agnostic and can integrate with any ERP system.

Can we integrate our ERP system data directly into carbmee’s EIS™ platform?

Yes, our solution provides precise information for compliance with major sustainability reporting standards like CDP and GHG Protocol.

Can I use international reporting frameworks?

While Excel is the classic solution for formatting, organizing and calculating data, it is also entirely manual – not at all optimized for the complexity of corporate carbon management. 

Carbmee’s EIS™ Carbon Management Solution automates carbon management, not only making carbon management easier but also delivering on: 

calculations 80-90% faster than with Excel;

the opportunity to collaborate on data collection – streamlining data from multiple sources (e.g. suppliers, various internal teams, etc.);

a variety of features built for reduction like analytics for easy hotspot identification, an initiative planner for planning reduction path and high ROI initiatives, as well as automated reporting.

Why is carbmee better than my company’s internal excel solutions?

We use a variety of databases, including comprehensive activity-based databases such as ecoinvent, as well as industry specific ones such as carbon minds and Exiobase for clients in need of spend-based carbon calculations.

Which database do you use for emission calculations?

Yes, all of our 3rd party database partners provide transparent and auditable data on request.

We have different packages that can be set-up based on customer’s needs and value chain complexity. Talk to one of our decarbonization experts to get a quote for your company.

FAQ about our product and solution

A list of all frequently asked questions about carbmee's carbon management solution with the answers.

All questions about carbmee's carbon management solution

All answers about carbeem's carbon managemnt software and how we help organisations decarbonize.

Carbmee sits at the nexus of technology, digitization, and sustainability, with the vision of driving the sustainable transformation of businesses with environmental intelligence in order to achieve net-zero by 2050. Carbmee’s Environmental Intelligence System ™ (EIS) is an enterprise software solution for value chain carbon management, specializing in Scope 3 emissions analysis and reduction potential.

Carbmee’s EIS™ Carbon Management Solution is not just a reporting tool or an offsetting platform – our Solution is about integrating operational ERP data to identify where to abate emissions at their source and managing carbon reduction initiatives as effectively as possible. By linking emissions from materials, transactions, logistics, and supplier data to globally recognized standards and methodologies, our Solution calculates carbon footprints down to a supplier-specific level. 

What is carbmee’s EIS™ Carbon Management solution?

We’re trying to make the biggest impact we can and that means working with some of the world’s largest companies, which also have complex supply chains (i.e. companies with significant Scope 3 emissions). We also work directly with suppliers to analyze and verify their carbon footprint.

What kind of companies does carbmee work with?

The climate crisis is intensifying and with it so is the need for companies to comply with regulations, but also to develop more resilient supply chains, lower their climate risk, and continually make their operations more sustainable overall. Our Solution gives companies the chance to not only fulfill their emissions reductions pledges, but to truly operate carbon-aware now and far into the future.

Why should my company decarbonize its value chain?

Scope 1 emissions are direct emissions from owned or controlled sources.
Scope 2 emissions are indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energy. 
Scope 3 emissions are all indirect emissions (not included in scope 2) that occur in the value chain of the reporting company, including both upstream and downstream emissions.

About carbmee & decarbonization

Details about how carbmee can help you in your decarbonization journey and how our EIS carbon management software can help reduce your carbon footprint.

Our team is composed of industry experts specialized in procurement, business consulting, technology, and more. This means we have the domain knowledge to understand our customers’ challenges and needs – and the know-how to solve them.

To ensure our customers are able to have the greatest impact on their net-zero journey, we also provide:

one-on-one guidance and recommendations on how customers can start and level-up their decarbonization;

online courses that explain what net-zero is and how to use our product from end-to-end of your enterprise;

webinars and events with industry experts, focused on net-zero for both the planet and your company’s sustainable business performance.

How does carbmee support teams from end-to-end of your enterprise?

Yes, our Consultancy Partners are key in supporting our joint customers to eliminate implementation barriers, maximize low-carbon capacity, and achieve breakthroughs in sustainable business performance. 

We are a consultancy firm interested in EIS™ Carbon Management for our clients’ projects. Can we partner with carbmee?

Yes, carbmee provides both personal support from our Customer Success Managers but also through our interactive learning platform, carbmee Academy. Customer Success Managers ensure that every customer is guided through:

their decarbonization journey, i.e align use of Carbmee with business goals and strategy;

how to leverage EIS Carbon Management to achieve meaningful carbon reduction goals;

mapping challenges to match for solutions, i.e. product discovery and co-development.

Is there support available when using EIS™ Carbon Management?

How carbmee can support you in meeting Net-Zero goals

Introducing a new way to manage evolving items over time. Item Variant Grouping links multiple versions under a single shared ID, giving you a clean, organized view of related entries and a clear picture of how footprints change across updates. Use the comparison view to review variants side by side and quickly spot shifts in emissions, data quality, and key attributes. 

An improved approval flow preserves data integrity by letting you update an existing item or create a new variant, automatically archiving prior data to maintain a complete audit trail. The result is simpler portfolio management, faster insight, and a transparent record of each item’s decarbonization journey.

EXIOBASE 3.10 has been updated to EXIOBASE 3.10.1 with the most current spend-based emission factors, built on 2022 economic data and adjusted to 2024 price levels for more reliable modeling. The dataset now reflects inflation-corrected costs, improving the precision of spend-to-emissions calculations across categories.

A new market-average option enhances results when supplier origin is unknown. Instead of guessing a region, calculations can use a weighted average of relevant production locations to better mirror real market mixes. The outcome is clearer baselines, tighter forecasts, and greater confidence in assessments that rely on spend data.

carbmee EIS™ introduces in-platform controls that put you in full control of CBAM data. Create, edit, and delete CBAM items, transactions, and business contacts, including Declarants, Importers, and Distributors, directly in an intuitive interface. Make real-time updates, correct imported records, and remove outdated entries to keep datasets clean and accurate. Managing contacts alongside items and transactions streamlines workflows, reduces reporting errors, and supports confident CBAM compliance.

Streamlined CBAM reporting now supports Distributors and their Downstream Customers with clearer, more collaborative workflows. Report data in the roles of Declarant and Distributor, generate downstream-ready reports by submitting Downstream Transactions, and provide customers the information they need for compliance. 

In Studio, access an end-to-end view of your supply chain footprint, from Upstream Vendors to Downstream Customers, then export and share emissions data with stakeholders for improved transparency. The result is smoother reporting, better visibility, and stronger compliance across the value chain.

carbmee EIS™ now maps your supply chain as an interactive, force-directed graph, linking items, suppliers, and sites into a single, navigable view. Hotspot items are visually flagged, nodes scale by relative emissions, and hover tooltips surface totals and key details—so teams can trace dependencies, track emissions at every node, and spot optimization opportunities in seconds.

Designed for speed and impact, the experience is fully responsive with smooth zoom, pan, and drag to reorganize layouts for instant clarity, perfect for demos and stakeholder alignment. By turning complex relationships into an intuitive map, it accelerates insight, supports data-informed decisions, and sets the stage for intelligent, recommendation-driven optimization across your value chain.

carbmee EIS™ now supports passwordless sign-in via a secure one-time login link. Users enter their email on the login page and receive a time-limited link to log in instantly - no password setup, no friction. This reduces missed invites and expired activations, accelerating supplier onboarding and improving first-time experience. Available to all users in a customer environment and compatible with existing password logins; for security, only Invited and Active users can authenticate.

Introducing a streamlined way to meet EU Deforestation Regulation requirements. Upload EUDR items and supplier data via a simple template with real-time validation that flags missing fields and formatting issues, then see results immediately in a clean, searchable item list. Sort and filter by key attributes to manage commodities at scale, review supplier details, and keep records audit ready. 

If needed, support teams can import on your behalf to unblock progress. As part of the Digital Twin initiative, EUDR items also appear in the GHG item list to spotlight cross-workflow opportunities, and non-EUDR customers see a teaser in the EUDR tab. The outcome is faster onboarding of EUDR data, better data quality, and more transparent tracking from import to action.

Manage Installations and Declarants directly in the UI for faster, more accurate CBAM administration. Create and edit Installations with key details such as name, country, city, and postal code, and view them in a dedicated Installations section under each supplier for better visibility. A new Sites and Declarants tab provides a structured overview of all Declarants and their roles, with simple add and update actions to keep information current. These updates give sustainability and compliance teams a single, organized workspace, improving data quality, audit readiness, and day-to-day efficiency.

carbmee EIS™ now includes an always-available AI assistant that delivers accurate answers on platform workflows, carbon management concepts, LCA methodologies, and building custom dashboards, right where you work. Open the assistant from the always visible icon on any page and get immediate, step-by-step guidance for your questions. Built for privacy, the assistant is stateless and never accesses your company data, eliminating guesswork, speeding onboarding, and keeping support secure.

A new email notification system now keeps GHG and CBAM data collection moving with minimal manual follow-up. Suppliers receive reminders to submit and verify items, summaries when tasks are complete, and alerts if submissions need changes. Customers are notified as new or verified data arrives, enabling timely review and next steps. Messages reach only relevant, active users and respect tenant and individual email preferences. The result is stronger supplier participation, clearer progress visibility, and reduced operational overhead, helping teams deliver accurate outcomes on schedule.

Introducing a unified table experience that improves speed, consistency, and usability across CBAM items, transactions, and collaborator views. Benefit from a cleaner interface, smarter filtering and search to pinpoint records quickly, and flexible customization with sortable and pinnable columns. Select multiple rows to streamline bulk actions like deletion. Collaborators see only the tabs relevant to their work, keeping focus where it matters. The result is less friction, more clarity, and a smoother way to manage CBAM data at scale.

carbmee EIS™ now features automated EUDR risk scoring, giving you immediate visibility into deforestation exposure across your supply chain. Each commodity receives a score from 1 to 10, combining verified geospatial data from the OpenAtlas API with key indicators such as indigenous land claims, governance quality, and regional conflict levels.

This new capability eliminates manual analysis and enables teams to prioritize high-risk suppliers and commodities with confidence. Integrated directly into the Environmental Intelligence System, the model streamlines due diligence, strengthens audit readiness, and empowers more strategic sourcing decisions.

EUDR Risk Scoring – Faster Compliance, Smarter Sourcing

Most carbon accounting platforms take a rigid approach: pre-set fields, fixed templates, and a universal model that struggles to capture the complexity of real-world operations, especially for companies with complex supply chains. But carbon management is not one-size-fits-all.

Whether you’re tracking the share of renewable energy at specific manufacturing sites or mapping the repairability score of every product in your portfolio, your business needs ESG data that mirrors your operations—not the other way around.

"Custom Properties is a major leap forward for our customers. It gives them the power to adapt their carbon models to the exact realities of their operations—no compromises, no workarounds. This feature was born directly from the needs of our users, who told us they needed more flexibility to stay ahead of regulations, integrate internal systems, and track the metrics that matter most. With Custom Properties, we’re delivering a capability that can solve virtually any ESG data challenge—especially the complex, dynamic demands of managing supply chain emissions and performance. Carbontology starts now."

 — Robin Spickers, Co-Founder of carbmee

Track Recycled Content Percentage to support circular economy metrics and demonstrate material reuse in products.


Measure Waste Recovery Rate and Product End-of-Life Treatment to fulfill CSRD & ESRS reporting requirements and align with regulatory sustainability disclosures.


Assess Supplier Carbon Scores to manage Scope 3 emissions and drive decarbonization efforts across the value chain.

Integrate ERP Material Codes to directly link product-level carbon data with enterprise systems for streamlined reporting and traceability.


Analyze Share of Renewable Energy by site, region, or product line to evaluate decarbonization progress and inform energy procurement strategies.

Implement a Repairability Score to enhance product lifecycle analysis and improve circularity and customer value.


Apply Carbon Pricing Models to evaluate emissions cost exposure, improve risk management, and gain a competitive edge through carbon efficiency.


Embed Ecodesign Principles into product development to reduce environmental impact, comply with regulations, and unlock sustainable innovation.

Use Marginal Cost Abatement Curves to identify and prioritize low-cost emissions reduction opportunities with maximum return on investment.

Organizations that excel at ESG data management don’t just report more—they act faster, reduce costs, and outperform peers. McKinsey reports that companies with strong ESG credentials cut costs by 5–10%, largely through operational efficiency, better resource use, and waste reduction. The key enabler? Deep, accurate data.


Meanwhile, a World Economic Council report shows that over 70% of companies cite data fragmentation as a major barrier to ESG progress. It’s not that the data isn’t there—it’s that businesses can’t consolidate or contextualize it effectively. This is where Custom Properties delivers unmatched strategic value.

By allowing teams to map internal KPIs and external requirements directly into carbmee’s platform, companies gain a unified, coherent data model that grows with them. This not only saves hours—sometimes days—of manual work per reporting cycle but also unlocks cross-functional clarity between sustainability, procurement, finance, and operations.

Why Customization Matters: The Strategic Value of Data

The sustainability reporting landscape is shifting rapidly. The EU’s CSRD and ESRS regulations alone introduce dozens of new mandatory disclosure points. Add to that voluntary frameworks like TCFD, ISSB, or sector-specific guidelines, and suddenly a fixed reporting model simply can’t keep up.

With Custom Properties, carbmee equips your team to respond in real time. Need to add a new field to align with an emerging regulation? Done. Want to track a unique decarbonization metric for internal dashboards? Add it in seconds. The system adapts as your needs evolve.

 Real-Time Flexibility Meets Future-Proof Reporting

Here’s what’s possible when you build your data model around your business:

Faster, smoother ESG reporting: Save significant time by auto-populating carbon models with exactly the data you need—no cleaning, no duplication, no guesswork.

Better collaboration: With shared, customized data fields, teams across departments speak the same language—accelerating workflows and reducing friction.

Clearer insights: By capturing the nuances of your operations, your sustainability reports become more than compliance checklists—they become strategic tools for decision-making.

Reduced risk: Flexible data fields allow you to respond quickly to regulatory changes, ensuring you stay ahead of ESG disclosure requirements.

According to Gartner, by 2026, 70% of organizations will use ESG reporting software as part of their digital strategy. But only those with customizable, scalable platforms will be positioned to derive real strategic value.

 A Smarter Data Model = A Smarter Organization

At carbmee, we believe flexibility should empower—not overwhelm. That’s why Custom Properties are intuitive by design. Add new fields from a simple interface, assign them to any object in the system (like sites, suppliers, products, or materials), and instantly make them available for calculations, dashboards, or exports.

Whether you're a sustainability lead embedding climate metrics across your business or an IT manager integrating with internal systems, Custom Properties offer a smarter, more scalable way to manage ESG data.

Custom Properties are available today—at no additional cost—for all users of the carbmee Environmental Intelligence System (EIS). No hidden fees. No limits. Just the freedom to make your carbon model reflect the full complexity of your business.

Because no two businesses are alike, and your carbon software should know that.

Available Now. Free for All carbmee EIS Users.

In today’s climate-driven economy, sustainability isn’t a side project—it’s a core business function. And yet, nearly half of all sustainability decision-makers (47%, according to the carbmee Sustainability Intelligence Report) identify data availability as their single greatest challenge. That’s why we're proud to launch Custom Properties: the industry’s most powerful new tool to make carbon data as dynamic, detailed, and adaptable as your business.

With Custom Properties, carbmee becomes the first carbon management platform to let you data model to your exact operational, regulatory, and reporting needs—without workarounds, without compromise. That’s what we call carbontology.

Custom Properties for Precision Carbon Modeling – Discover Now

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Unlock Precision Carbon Modeling: Custom Properties for Every Metric, Every Team, Every Regulation

In the evolving landscape of global business, managing the carbon footprint across the supply chain has become a critical challenge. Scope 3 emissions, which encompass all indirect emissions occurring in a company’s value chain, often constitute the bulk of a company’s total carbon footprint. Tackling these emissions requires comprehensive strategies, robust data management, and innovative solutions. 

This blog post provides comprehensive guidance on how to manage emissions in the supply chain efficiently and drive effective decarbonization initiatives and enable companies to uncover business levers. 

Studies indicate that for many industries, up to 80% of their total emissions originate from the supply chain. This underscores the importance of addressing Scope 3 emissions to make a meaningful impact on overall carbon reduction efforts. Focusing solely on direct emissions (Scope 1 and 2) will not suffice if the larger portion of emissions remains unchecked.

Achieving sustainability targets and transitioning to a low-carbon economy hinges on effectively managing Scope 3 emissions. Companies are increasingly setting ambitious reduction targets, and delivering on these promises is crucial for long-term environmental and economic sustainability.

Regulatory landscapes are evolving, with enhanced Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulations requiring accurate and comprehensive reporting of Scope 3 emissions. Compliance with these regulations not only helps avoid penalties but also positions companies favorably with investors and consumers who are increasingly valuing transparency and sustainability.

With the advent of carbon pricing, managing Scope 3 emissions becomes essential for maintaining profitability. Companies that proactively reduce their carbon footprint can mitigate the financial impact of carbon taxes and leverage sustainability as a competitive advantage.

The Importance of Scope 3 Emission Reduction

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Challenges of Managing Scope 3 Emissions in Complex Supply Chains

Managing Scope 3 emissions is inherently challenging due to the complexity of modern supply chains. Companies often deal with multiple tiers of suppliers across different countries, each with varying environmental regulations and technological capabilities. Gathering accurate and comprehensive data requires cross-departmental collaboration within the company and across the supply chain.

Spend-based carbon accounting estimates emissions by multiplying the financial value of goods or services by emission factors. It provides a quick overview but lacks accuracy and granularity.

Activity-based accounting focuses on specific activities and processes, using detailed data on physical flows such as energy use, material consumption, and transport distances. It provides more accurate and granular data that enables companies to gain a comprehensive understanding of their Scope 3 emissions and identify hotspots.

The most actionable and accurate method, supplier-specific data, gathers precise information from the supplier's operations and production processes. This data is the most actionable carbon data that empowers companies to drive high ROI reduction strategies, collaborate with existing suppliers or source new low-emission suppliers, and innovate new production processes or materials.

Integrating carbon data into existing corporate data systems is crucial for informed decision-making. Within procurement and supply chain management (SCM), the primary challenge lies in gathering precise and granular data across the entire value chain. This involves connecting data from various Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and ensuring it is specific enough to influence meaningful decisions.

Understanding Carbon Data Management for Complex Supply Chains

- Awareness and Stakeholder Onboarding: Educate stakeholders about the importance of managing Scope 3 emissions and the associated risks. Establish company-wide reduction targets and communicate these targets clearly to managers, defining their responsibilities and specific objectives.

- Developing an RFP: Create a Request for Proposal (RFP) tailored to your Scope 3 emission use cases and select a suitable software solution provider like carbmee.

- Supplier Carbon Footprint Modelling: Develop models to quantify the carbon footprints of your suppliers using certified calculation methods to ensure data transparency across the supply chain.

- Achieving Data Transparency: Ensure data transparency and set a baseline for your Scope 3 emissions.

- Transition to Activity-Based Calculations: Move from spend-based to activity-based calculations and increase the collection of supplier-specific data.

- Identifying Emission Hotspots: Utilize transparent and accurate data to pinpoint emission hotspots within your supply chain.

- Strategic Use of Carbon Data: Integrate carbon data into operations and strategic planning to support the path to net zero with clear roles and responsibilities.

- Fostering Supplier Collaboration: Encourage collaboration with suppliers to share sustainability goals, implement data-informed reduction initiatives and reduce the Supplier carbon footprint.

- Achieving High ROI in Reduction Initiatives: Focus on sourcing low-emission goods and identifying low-emission alternatives to enhance procurement decisions and achieve sustainable procurement. 

- Opting for Low-Carbon Transportation and Waste Management: Reduce emissions further by choosing more sustainable transportation and waste management options.

- Innovating Eco-Friendly Products: Use granular carbon data to innovate and track the success of eco-friendly products.

- Data-Driven Optimization: Leverage data for supplier emissions tracking and to continuously monitor and optimize your carbon footprint reduction strategies 

- Staying Compliant: Ensure compliance with evolving ESG regulations by providing validated, high-quality carbon data.

- Regular Reporting: Report achievements and milestones to stakeholders regularly to maintain transparency and accountability.

- Considering Premium Pricing: Explore premium pricing for low-emission products to reflect their added value and sustain profitability.

Act Now: 4 Steps to Supply chain sustainability

carbmee’s Environmental Intelligence System (EIS™) offers a comprehensive solution for managing carbon across complex supply chains. The Supplier Carbon Footprint (SCF) module within carbmee EIS™ enables companies to achieve data transparency and accuracy swiftly. By transitioning from spend-based to activity-based calculations and incorporating supplier-specific data, companies can gain detailed insights at the SKU level. This facilitates the identification of high return-on-investment (ROI) hotspots and empowers companies to develop and implement effective reduction initiatives.

Key Benefits of Using the SCF Module in carbmee EIS™

1.Achieving Data Transparency and Accuracy: carbmee EIS™ allows for complete data transparency and the highest level of data accuracy. By incorporating supplier-specific data, companies can achieve detailed granularity, making the data both actionable and reliable.

2.Driving High ROI Carbon Reduction: With superior data quality, companies can easily identify emission hotspots and develop targeted reduction initiatives. This enables effective collaboration with suppliers and strategic sourcing of low-emission suppliers.

3.Simplifying Compliance: Using certified calculation models, carbmee EIS™ ensures that carbon data is validated and emission reports adhere to international standards, easing the reporting process and avoiding penalties.

4.Streamlining Supplier Collaboration: The platform streamlines supplier communication across the value chain, enabling efficient onboarding, training, and collaboration on reduction initiatives. Suppliers can submit their primary data in a standardized and compliant format, ensuring data quality and consistency.

Carbon Management for Supply chain transformation with carbmee EIS™

Managing carbon in the supply chain is no longer optional but a strategic necessity. With the increasing regulatory requirements and the financial implications of carbon pricing, companies must take proactive steps to measure, report, and reduce their Scope 3 emissions. carbmee’s carbon management software offers a comprehensive solution to achieve data transparency, drive high ROI carbon reduction, simplify compliance, and streamline supplier collaboration. By leveraging accurate and actionable carbon data, companies can future-proof their supply chains, achieve sustainability goals, and maintain competitiveness in an increasingly carbon-conscious market.

Want to have data confidence in your decision-making? Talk to one of our Experts to learn more about carbmee's solutions.

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology used to evaluate the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its entire life cycle. This includes all stages, from raw material extraction and processing, production, distribution, use, and disposal. LCA helps to identify the environmental impacts of a product or service and provides insight into areas where improvements can be made to minimize negative impacts on the environment.

LCA is governed by the international standard ISO 14040, which outlines the principles and framework for conducting LCA. This standard provides guidelines for conducting a life cycle assessment, including the definition of the scope, the selection of the assessment methods, and the interpretation of the results. There are many LCA tools and software available that comply with the ISO 14040 standard, such as OpenLCA, Gabi LCA, and other life cycle assessment software.

When done right, LCA can be a powerful tool to uncover both emission hot spots, a key environmental impact of products or services, but also reduction potential throughout their life cycle. This approach to assessing impact allows decision makers to compare alternatives and to select inputs with the lowest impact on the environment.

LCA is useful for measuring a company's GHG emissions impact because it provides a comprehensive assessment of the entire life cycle of a product or process. This methodology can identify "hot spots," or areas of a product's life cycle that have a high GHG emissions footprint. For example, LCA can help companies understand the carbon footprint of their supply chain, including the energy used to extract and transport raw materials. By identifying these hot spots, companies can focus their efforts on reducing GHG emissions in the areas that have the greatest impact. 

LCA also enables comparisons between different products or processes, helping companies make informed decisions about the environmental impact of their choices. For example, a company can use LCA to compare the carbon footprint of two different paper products to determine which has a lower environmental impact.

Why is LCA useful for measuring a company's GHG emission impact?

Manufacturing companies use LCA to evaluate the environmental impact of their products and services, from the extraction of raw materials to the final disposal of the product. For example, a furniture manufacturer could use LCA to assess the environmental impact of a new chair design. The assessment would include the environmental impacts of the raw materials used to make the chair, the energy consumed during production, the transportation of the materials and the finished product, the use phase of the chair, and the disposal of the chair at the end of its life cycle. LCA can provide valuable insight into the potential environmental impacts of a product or process and help companies identify areas for improvement.

What is an example of how a manufacturing company would use LCA?

With classic LCA solutions, the accuracy of results for any individually analyzed product is very high. However, to achieve company-wide net-zero and regulatory compliance, there are significant drawbacks to consider, such as:

your LCA expert(s) is working in a silo, increasing communication friction and alignment with other teams across your organization

there is no automated way to compare various carbon footprints to efficiently determine hot spots. When using GaBi, for example, this process is manual, time-intensive, and not scalable.

once you have manually identified hot spots, any comparison of materials or suppliers is highly manual and there are no software-generated recommendations for alternatives – making it less scalable.

carbmee EIS™ Carbon Management solution takes the trusted Life Cycle Analysis methodology and uses automation and AI technology to create tailored platforms, purpose-built for enabling industry enterprises to achieve impactful decarbonization. 

Collaboration for better engagement: the EIS™ is the single source of truth for the entire company emissions and enables LCA teams to request information about specific products’ materials, suppliers, transportation, and production processes from multiple teams. 

Certified methodology: our product Carbon Footprint (PCF) methodology is certified by TÜV and enables companies to measure and report entire product portfolios compliant with ISO 14064 and GHG Protocol.

Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) Integration: the EIS™ optimizes the demands from your sustainability team and re-use the work done for PCFs on CCF reports, reducing time and cost.

Supplier Data Integration: our holistic solution that integrates not only scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions on the PCF modeling but analyzes the entire supply chain and highlights supplier hot  spots so the company can identify and tackle areas with high reduction potential. 

Scenario planning: the EIS™ enables the customer to benchmark alternative material, transportation modes, production processes and more and plan high return-on-investment reduction initiatives and work on a product redesign that leads to competitive advantage. 

Share exactly what you want to: with EIS™, companies can share PCF models directly with customers and hide sensitive data if needed. This increases customer trust and leads to market advantage.

Databases suited to your industry: different than other market solutions, our solution enables companies to use multiple databases and customize emission models for their specific industry context.

Platform customization: duplicate product models and customize it as needed. For example: localize it based on the region it was manufactured, supplier, material, energy used on the manufacturing site, and so on, drastically reducing time spent on modeling.

If your company is looking for a solution to as its source of truth If your enterprise is ready to level up its sustainable transformation, then talk to one of our industry experts to find out how carbmee can help. 

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