The Manufacturer’s Reality: Why Product Footprints Define Company Impact
A company footprint encompasses the overall environmental impact of an organization’s operations. While a product footprint focuses on the environmental impact of a specific product throughout its lifecycle. As sustainability becomes an urgent priority, these concepts are increasingly intertwined. Every decision made at the company level directly influences the environmental profile of the products manufactured. […]
From Carbon Footprint to Environmental Footprint: One Solution for Both
Life Cycle Assessment: the backbone of Product Carbon and Environmental Footprint Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), following ISO 14040/44, assesses a product’s environmental impact from production to disposal. LCA provides a holistic view, evaluating at least 15 impact categories beyond carbon emissions. This method reveals that products affect the environment in many ways, prompting the need […]
The future of product carbon footprint management: predictions and trends
The current state of product carbon footprint management Carbon footprint management is the process of measuring, reporting, and reducing the total amount of CO2 emissions produced by an organization and its products. Carbon management typically involves several strategies, such as improving energy efficiency, optimizing energy production processes, and offsetting carbon emissions by capture, utilization, and […]
Measuring your product’s carbon footprint – why secondary data is a silver bullet
The challenge of data collection Data collection for environmental footprint analysis is inherently complex. The diversity of sources, the variability in data quality, and the volume of data required contribute to this complexity. Several factors make data collection particularly challenging: 1. Diverse data sources: Data must be collected from a wide array of sources, including […]
Understanding product carbon impact: a guide for businesses
In 2022, 24% of Europe’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions came from goods and services. While other GHG emission numbers fell in recent years, this one rose, which isn’t a good sign. It’s not just operational emissions that are putting a strain on our planet either. Product carbon emissions are also a huge issue, and there […]
All you need to know about Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
What is a Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)? Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measures the greenhouse gas emissions of a product from production to disposal. This includes emissions from extracting raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, and disposal. This includes emissions from extracting raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, use, and disposal. We measure PCF in kilograms of carbon dioxide […]
CO2 footprint vs. Environmental Footprint of Products: The Main Differences
A product CO2 footprint (or product carbon footprint) tells you how much global warming your product causes throughout its life cycle. But dig deeper – and you find many more environmental crises worth caring about. That’s why next to product CO2 footprints, there are also product environmental footprints. Environmental footprints cover 15+ different impact outcomes […]
