Product carbon footprints without additional effort
Product emissions through allocation from your corporate carbon footprint
Many medium-sized suppliers have to provide product-related emissions data in addition to their company balance sheets – often without the capacity to calculate each product individually in a time-consuming process.
The allocation method still allows for efficient product-related CO₂ values: we derive the emissions directly from your Corporate Carbon Footprint – transparently and without additional effort.
Your next step
What our combined process provides
Efficient CO₂ values for your products too
Links company and product level:
Based on your Corporate Carbon Footprint (CCF) with us, the emissions calculated are distributed across all your product groups.
Consideration of the entire life cycle:
Scope 1 and 2 emissions (own consumption and energy) as well as purchased raw materials and transport from Scope 3 are allocated using traceable criteria such as sales price, weight, or material usage in order to map the entire product life cycle from cradle-to-gate or cradle-to-grave.
Pragmatic and time-efficient:
Do you sell hundreds of products and need emission values for each one? By allocating them based on criteria such as product price or material usage, representative average values can be obtained with manageable effort—ideal for companies with many similar products.
Certified result:
Product emissions calculated by our specialists in accordance with GHG-compliant procedures using the allocation method and documented with results and methodology reports as well as certificates.
Over 300 companies from all industries rely on
our proven process for CO₂ accounting
Lebensmittelproduktion
Feinkost Dittmann
Industrial Production
Bray Controls Europe
Service
Falk GmbH & CO KG
Fashion Retail
engelhorn GmbH & CO KGaa
Public service
Studierendenwerk Mannheim
Your project process
From the corporate carbon footprint to your product emissions
1. Corporate carbon footprint as a basis
First, your CCF is assessed according to our proven TÜV-certified process. The data structure is prepared in such a way that subsequent product-related allocation can be carried out efficiently.
2. Allocation to products
Our experts divide your emission sources (Scope 1–3) into logical categories, such as energy, materials, and transportation. This structure forms the basis for a clear, transparent distribution across product groups. The emissions are then distributed among the products sold using appropriate key figures – such as sales shares, production volumes, or weights. The allocation criteria are agreed with you individually to ensure a realistic representation of your business.
3. Handover of results
You will receive a complete PCF report including a description of the methodology, allocation logic, and certificate—which you can use for customer communications, tenders, or supply chain requirements.
Allocation PCF
For whom this method is suitable
✓ Emissions data required at company and product level
Companies that also require a corporate carbon footprint (CCF), i.e., a balance sheet at the company level, benefit twice from the allocation method. The existing data structure from the CCF is used directly for product emissions, eliminating the need for additional effort to collect completely new data.
✓ Requests from suppliers
The process is suitable for companies whose customers request product-related emission values. Suppliers can use it to provide CO₂ values per product or product group—for example, for tenders or supplier declarations from their customers.
✓ Similar products
Ideal for medium-sized manufacturing companies and suppliers whose products/product groups are similar in terms of design, materials, and processes. For example, manufacturers of metal components such as bolts or housings that differ in size or surface treatment (e.g., anodized, polished, galvanized) or food producers that manufacture varieties of a product line, e.g., different sauces, spreads, or beverages with similar ingredients and processes.
✘ Only product emissions required
If you only need product emissions, e.g., for product optimization or customer communication purely about your products, we recommend our Precision PCF. More detailed product data is collected for its calculation, independently of the corporate carbon footprint.
✘ Präzise Daten je Lebensphase benötigt
If you need exact CO₂ values per item for external testing procedures, labeling, or specific sustainability programs (e.g., SBTi, EPDs), the A-PCF is too rough—in this case, the Precision-PCF should also be used.
✘ Highly heterogeneous products
If products cannot be meaningfully compared using a common metric (e.g., weight or share of sales), the allocation method is not suitable. Example: A company manufactures both wood and metal products or combines manual and highly automated production – in this case, a precise individual assessment using Precision-PCF should also be selected.
Your contact person
- Eva Karcher
- Customer Relationship | Carbon Footprint Management
- e.karcher@greenvisionsolutions.de
- +49 621 493086-56
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