Product carbon footprints, start to finish
What to produce, how, and how to check it before a customer sees it.
Thirty minutes for suppliers of physical goods who have been asked for a product carbon footprint, or expect to be. We take one example product from bill of materials to a finished cradle-to-gate footprint, show where each number comes from and which factor sits behind it, present it the way a customer's system expects, and run it through a free evaluator before it goes out. Bring a bill of materials for your most-bought product if you have one. Runs twice a year; the recording is on this page.
Resources from the session
- GHG Protocol Product Standard: the method, boundary definitions and allocation rules used in the example. Free.
- PACT Methodology: the calculation method and data format large customers' systems read (formerly the Pathfinder Framework). Free.
- Together for Sustainability PCF Guideline: the chemical sector's product footprint rules, useful for any material input. Free, also in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese.
- PCF Evaluator: the free check run live in the session on data quality, plausibility and PACT alignment. Free.
- Emission Factor (CFP) (Product footprint emission factors): Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization's factors for plastics, fuels, electricity and transport, shown in the example. In Thai. Free.
- ProBas (Process data for environmental assessments): the Umweltbundesamt's free database of process and emission data, shown in the example. In German. Free.
- Claim your DitchCarbon profile: where a footprint is uploaded if your customer uses DitchCarbon. Free, about 30 seconds.
- Free help by country: free and public help in your own country and language. Free.
Get help
Email suppliersupport@ditchcarbon.com and hear back within two working days. Free, whether or not your customer uses DitchCarbon.
Does your customer use DitchCarbon?Claim your profile →
Free, takes about 30 seconds, and is where your customer reads your answer from.
Free, takes about 30 seconds, and is where your customer reads your answer from.
