Carbonfact

Carbonfact is a specialized environmental data platform designed to address the unique sustainability challenges of the apparel and footwear industry, which accounts for a significant portion of global emissions. Recognized as one of Time's Best Inventions, Carbonfact transforms the chaotic and scattered data from ERPs, PLMs, and spreadsheets into clear, actionable insights. It empowers sustainability teams to move beyond tedious data administration and focus on what truly matters: decarbonization.

The platform is built on the principle that decarbonization is a data problem. It provides brands with the tools to perform granular Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for their entire product range, calculating detailed footprints for every single SKU, including variations in color, size, and sourcing. By leveraging AI and algorithms trained on millions of LCAs, Carbonfact can automatically fill data gaps, ensuring comprehensive and accurate calculations even with incomplete information.

How to use Carbonfact

Carbonfact integrates seamlessly into a brand's existing workflow through a structured, six-step process:

1. Retrieve and Clean Data: The platform connects to your existing systems (ERPs, PLMs, spreadsheets) to automatically pull product and supply chain data, cleaning and structuring it for analysis.
2. Enrich and Fill Data Gaps: Carbonfact's AI algorithm, trained on extensive primary datasets, automatically fills in missing details like component weights, material specifications (dtex), and process-level steps, ensuring a complete data foundation.
3. Measure Product Emissions: It runs automated, granular LCAs for your entire product portfolio, calculating emissions in compliance with the GHG Protocol and PEFCR methodology.
4. Improve Data Quality: The platform helps you identify data gaps and prioritize primary data collection efforts, continuously enhancing the accuracy of your footprint calculations.
5. Analyze and Disclose Emissions: Use dynamic dashboards to analyze your footprint by product line, material, or process. Generate reports for compliance (e.g., French Eco Score) and create Digital Product Passports.
6. Set Targets and Decarbonize: Simulate the impact of different materials, suppliers, or design changes to make informed, data-driven decisions. Set clear targets and track your progress towards decarbonization goals.

Core Features of Carbonfact

• Automated Carbon Accounting: Calculates both corporate and product-level carbon footprints following the GHG Protocol.
• Granular Product LCAs: Provides detailed environmental impact assessments for every SKU, supporting PEFCR’s 16 environmental indicators.
• AI-Powered Data Management: Automatically cleans, structures, and enriches data from various sources, filling in gaps with high-accuracy assumptions.
• Eco-Design & Simulation: Allows design and product teams to model the impact of new products and materials, enabling sustainable choices from the start.
• Compliance & Reporting: Streamlines the creation of compliance reports, including the French Eco Score and Digital Product Passports (DPP).
• Supply Chain Analysis: Offers deep insights into supply chain emissions, enabling scenario analysis and targeted reduction strategies.

Use Cases for Carbonfact

Carbonfact is trusted by hundreds of brands, from industry leaders like The North Face and Columbia to sustainability pioneers like Allbirds and A.P.C.

• Product Development: Teams at brands like La Sportiva use Carbonfact to simulate how design changes can reduce a new product's footprint by up to 25% before production.
• Sustainability Management: Managers at Happy Socks leverage the platform to move from spend-based estimates to accurate, product-level carbon accounting based on primary data.
• Complex Supply Chains: For large organizations like VF Corporation, Carbonfact helps identify and bridge data gaps across multiple brands and complex supply chains.
• Data-Driven Strategy: Brands like Burton use the 'Explorer' feature to dynamically analyze emissions data, guiding investment decisions and internal project priorities for maximum impact.

Advantages of Carbonfact

• Industry-Specific Expertise: Exclusively focused on apparel and footwear, providing tailored solutions that understand the industry's complex, multi-tiered supply chains.
• Scalable, Precise, and Automated: Transforms the manual, error-prone process of carbon accounting into an automated software solution that can scale across thousands of products.
• Data-Driven Accuracy: Moves beyond generic industry averages by using primary data and bespoke emission factors, with AI enhancing data completeness and quality.
• Collaborative Partnership: Acts as an extension of your sustainability team, offering support from a dedicated team of engineers, climate scientists, and data experts.

Pricing and Plans

Carbonfact operates on a customized enterprise model. Pricing is tailored to the specific needs, scale, and complexity of each brand. To get a detailed quote and understand how the platform can fit your organization, you are encouraged to book a personalized demo with their team.