Understanding Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
The Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) represents the total greenhouse gas emissions generated during a product’s lifecycle or production phase. Measuring and optimizing PCF is essential for enhancing supply chain transparency, improving sustainability efforts, and meeting regulatory requirements. Companies can leverage the PCF to refine production processes, improve resource efficiency, and provide procurement emission data to customers for more accurate CCF calculations.
Who is affected?
The osapiens HUB for PCF is designed for manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers who need precise and efficient carbon footprint calculations. It helps sustainability teams streamline emission reporting and compliance efforts while enabling businesses to identify areas for emission reductions. Companies seeking access to green financing, carbon credits, and regulatory incentives benefit from a structured approach to carbon footprint transparency.
The process in osapiens HUB for PCF
The osapiens HUB for Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) follows a structured approach to calculate and analyze emissions at the product level. The process begins with defining the goal and scope of the assessment, setting clear boundaries and key parameters. Next, an inventory analysis is conducted, capturing all inputs and outputs such as raw materials, energy consumption, transport, packaging, and waste. The system then performs an automatic emission calculation, assigning appropriate emission factors to each input and summing them up to determine the PCF. Finally, results are interpreted and communicated, identifying major emission sources, optimization opportunities, and ensuring seamless reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
Key Features of our Solution
Accurate and automated carbon footprint calculation
The osapiens HUB automates the calculation of a product’s carbon footprint by assigning appropriate emission factors and summing up all relevant emissions. This ensures a consistent and scientifically robust assessment without the need for complex manual calculations.
Integration of primary supply chain data
Companies can seamlessly integrate primary data from suppliers, ensuring a high level of accuracy in PCF calculations. This is particularly valuable for customers needing precise Scope 1, 2 and 3 data for their CCF calculations, strengthening transparency across the supply chain.
Scalable and efficient carbon footprint assessments
The HUB allows businesses to quickly generate PCF calculations across entire product portfolios. By utilizing predefined libraries of materials, activities, and emission factors, companies can accelerate assessments while maintaining flexibility to incorporate custom parameters.
Holistic emission insights for strategic decision-making
By analyzing PCF data, businesses can identify emission hotspots, benchmark performance across different products, and develop targeted strategies for reducing emissions and improving efficiency. The HUB facilitates scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of different production methods on carbon footprints.
Seamless integration with ESG reporting and compliance
The osapiens HUB for PCF connects with other osapiens ESG compliance solutions, ensuring consistent data management and streamlined reporting. This integration helps organizations align PCF assessments with broader sustainability and regulatory frameworks, such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy.
Benefits of osapiens HUB for PCF
Simplified and structured PCF assessments
A systematic and intuitive workflow ensures that no aspect of carbon footprint calculation is overlooked.
Comprehensive portfolio insights
Businesses can compare multiple products, identify optimization potential, and refine production processes accordingly.
Automated and flexible workflows
Pre-built databases of materials and activities speed up calculations while allowing for the integration of custom data.
Cost reduction and efficiency gains
PCF analysis reveals energy-intensive processes, helping companies reduce costs, minimize waste, and optimize operations.
Access to green financing and incentives
A transparent and structured approach to carbon footprint reporting enhances access to green bonds, subsidies, and investor funding.
Fully integrated within the osapiens HUB ecosystem
Companies benefit from seamless integration with other ESG solutions, ensuring a unified approach to sustainability and compliance.
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