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Product Updates
Measuring product footprints is hard work. Data is often incomplete, assumptions creep in, and getting inputs from across teams and facilities can be a challenge. At Carbon Trail, our goal is to make lifecycle assessments (LCAs) more reliable, transparent, and easier to manage. This month, we’re excited to announce…
Product Updates
At Carbon Trail, we spend a lot of time talking to sustainability teams, product managers, and compliance officers. And recently, we've been hearing some recurring themes: “I’m not sure if this product is AGEC-compliant.”“We’d love to show ROI on sustainability initiatives, but we don’t have the cost data.”“CDP…
Product Updates
We’re excited to share what we launched in June to help climate-conscious brands make more informed decisions, stay ahead of compliance requirements, and organize their carbon accounting data better than ever. 📉 Introducing the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) One of the most powerful tools we've added to Carbon…
Product Updates
We’ve been hard at work at Carbon Trail, and in May, we released some powerful features to make life easier for fashion brands measuring their environmental impact, especially those working with complex product categories like footwear. 🥾 Bulk Upload Support for Complex Products like Footwear Managing data for…
Product Updates
We’re excited to announce three major product enhancements that make carbon accounting and product footprinting smoother, smarter, and more precise. Here’s what’s new: 🌍 Inflation-Adjusted Emissions for Spend-Based Data Let’s say you’re working with 2024 activity data, such as spend on purchased goods, but the best…
Product Updates
We're excited to share what’s new this month! 🌟 Here’s what’s new: 💧 Primary Supplier Water and Waste Data Previously, supplier-level data collection was focused mainly on energy use. Now, you can also automatically integrate water consumption and waste generation into your product footprints. This is a big step…
Product Updates
Over the past month, we introduced new capabilities designed to help companies plan their decarbonization strategies with more precision, streamline data ingestion, and integrate durability into their impact assessments. Here’s why these updates matter. Evaluating Decarbonization Strategy ROI One of the biggest…
Product Updates
At Carbon Trail, we know that sustainability reporting can be overwhelming. The process of gathering data, ensuring accuracy, and aligning with multiple frameworks like SB 253 and CSRD is often tedious and time-consuming. That’s why we built our new Automated Compliance Sync feature—to drastically cut down the manual…
Product Updates
The Challenge of Data Integration In the fashion and retail industry, sustainability efforts hinge on accurate and comprehensive data. Yet, one persistent roadblock is addressing data mapping problems in LCA and carbon accounting. Mismatched taxonomies, inconsistent file formats, and time-consuming manual mapping…
Product Updates
Sustainability is a journey, not a destination. While businesses set ambitious sustainability targets, turning these into measurable, actionable initiatives can be overwhelming. Complex trade-offs, long-term goals, and the lack of clear metrics make it difficult to assess the true impact of climate initiatives. To…
Global Standards
In today's world, companies are racing to make sustainability the prevailing norm. It is the new standard the consumers look at before selecting a brand. However, many brands adopt questionable marketing strategies to captivate their audience, leading to greenwashing in the fashion industry. What Is Greenwashing In…
Product LCA
The fashion industry has long been flying under the radar of regulations when it comes to greenwashing. The few regulations that do exist aren't enforced very well and haven't brought about significant changes, even though many well-known companies like Allbirds, Pangaia, etc. have been labelling their products as…
Product LCA
The term sustainability is often misused by the fashion industry termed as "Greenwashing" and has been used to highlight environmental benefits in different contexts e.g., natural fibers, recycled materials, made-to-order, etc. It is a challenge to truly substantiate how much your product is ‘better’ than the…
Carbon Accounting, Product LCA
In an earlier post, we covered the reasons why Scope 3 accounting is broken in the fashion industry. As the industry looks for solutions, an answer that's been emerging is the use of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) or Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Scope 3 emissions accounting. A PCF is a means to measure and…
Carbon Accounting
With an estimated value of $3 trillion, the fashion industry is estimated to produce 10% of the total global emissions and is the second-largest polluter in the world. It has been estimated that it will become 50% larger in the next 8 years. As much as 75% of these emissions are from tiers 1-4 of upstream supply chain…
