Product Footprint

Services & tools to calculate the environmental impact of your product

In today’s world, consumers and businesses are increasingly prioritising sustainability in their product and supply chain choices. With heightened awareness of environmental impacts and evolving regulations like the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), understanding and reducing your product’s environmental footprint is no longer optional—it’s essential.

Whether you have physical-based or service-based offerings, a comprehensive product footprint assessment allows you to identify & target carbon 'hot spots' in your offering and also positions your brand as a leader in sustainability, giving you a competitive edge.

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As you actively move to reduce the emissions of your products, be sure to offset all the carbon caused to compensate & support global reductions/removal activity and claim carbon neutrality.

The cost to do this - with high integrity offsets - is usually less than 0.5% of product price

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Why Choose a Product Footprint Assessment?

Stay Ahead of Regulations: Meet the stringent requirements of CBAM by accurately measuring and reporting the carbon emissions embedded in your products. Ensure compliance with ESPR by designing products that are durable, repairable, and recyclable, with lower environmental footprints.

Differentiate Your Brand: As you continuously reduce product emissions as much as you can, also offset your product’s emissions to achieve ‘Carbon Neutral’ status , showcasing your commitment to sustainability in a competitive marketplace.
Drive Innovation: Identify cost and emission reduction opportunities through carbon life cycle assessments, enabling smarter material and supplier choices.

Our Services Include:

An assessment of the environmental footprint of your products - including carbon, water, plastic, and fossil fuel impacts as required
Detailed report with a breakdown of your product emissions / footprint
Support during the data collection process and marketing
Recommendations to reduce your product emissions / footprint after the assessment
Complying with supply chain and tendering requirements
Guidance on achieving carbon neutrality through high-quality offsetting projects.
If you offset as well, bring a ‘Carbon Neutral Product’ to market

Tailored Solutions for CBAM and ESPR Compliance

CBAM: We help you measure and verify the carbon footprint of your products, ensuring compliance with CBAM’s reporting and certification requirements. This includes support for importers and exporters navigating the complexities of carbon pricing and embedded emissions.
ESPR: Our expertise in sustainable product design ensures your products meet ESPR standards for durability, recyclability, and reduced environmental impact. We also provide tools like the Product Footprint Tracker to monitor and improve your product’s sustainability performance.

Consumers and businesses are now aware of the environmental impacts of their product and supply choices. Increased coverage of sustainability issues has helped to put this to the forefront of decision making. A product footprint assessment can help you to understand and reduce the environmental impact of your product(s) and help you to differentiate your brand. Moreover, offsetting the emissions associated with your product will certify it as ‘Carbon Neutral’, differentiating your brand in a competitive marketplace.

A Product Footprint Appraisal provides you with:

An assessment of the environmental footprint of your products
Detailed report with a breakdown of your product emissions / footprint
Support during the data collection process and marketing
Recommendations to reduce your product emissions / footprint after the assessment
Complying with supply chain and tendering requirements
If you offset as well, bring a ‘Carbon Neutral Product’ to market

Product Footprint Verification

If you have completed your own product carbon footprint measurements, we provide a Product Carbon Footprint Verification to audit your datasets, methodologies and calculations - bringing confidence to your disclosures. This also provides brand endorsement via our Carbon Footprint Standard logo.

We recommend this approach if your main aim is to achieve carbon emission reductions in your products footprint and to identify opportunities to reduce costs.

ISO 14067:2018- The ISO 14067:2018 standard is an internationally recognised specification for product life cycle assessments.

We recommend a standardised approach if you have strong supply chain requirements.

We can also provide you with tailored software solutions to track and measure your products carbon footprint.

Product Carbon Neutrality

After completing a product footprint, make your product carbon neutral by offsetting the associated carbon emissions. We offer a wide range of high integrity carbon offsetting projects along with support in drafting carbon management plans and marketing.

We recommend this approach if your main aim is to achieve carbon neutrality for your products and to enhance your brand's sustainability credentials.

ISO 14021:2016- The ISO 14021:2016 standard is an internationally recognised specification for environmental labels and declarations.

We recommend a comprehensive approach if you have strong environmental goals.

We can also provide you with customised solutions to help you achieve and maintain carbon neutrality for your products.

Our Experience

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