The age of guesswork is over. Granular emissions data is becoming the new baseline for carbon footprint reporting.
With new regulations such as the Digital Product Passport on the horizon, and customers increasingly demanding product carbon footprints from their suppliers, the demand for granular, material-level emission factors is growing. While emission factor data is widely available from public databases and other providers, it often falls short because it's either outdated or limited to high-level sector or regional averages.
The challenge lies in finding the up-to-date, product- and process-specific detail that companies need to calculate emissions precisely and truly reflect the climate impact of complex supply chains and products, especially for scope 3 reporting. This is particularly true for companies moving from spend-based emissions reporting to more accurate activity-based models.
sustamize’s bottom-up database provides emission factors across thousands of materials, such as over 3,200 metals, 1,000 composites, and 160 polymers, including recycling values that are crucial for realistic assessments. A bottom-up database approach involves starting with specific, low-level data elements and then grouping them to form more complex entities and datasets, ultimately creating a comprehensive database. This goes beyond averages to capture product- and process-level detail. With coverage for over 160 countries and regions, sustamize provides accurate emission factors for any region, even down to specific US states or Chinese provinces. The data is refreshed twice a year to reflect the latest standards and developments and is fully documented for audit-ready compliance.
Instead of juggling multiple sources (and the issues of mismatched data and units that come with that), the Climatiq database offers businesses a way to access all relevant, up-to-date data in one place. The addition of sustamize adds a new layer of specificity and granularity to the database, and is especially useful for those looking for packaging or material data. Customers can also use AI-powered Autopilot to automatically map scope 3 material and component data to the right emission factors from sustamize, which is rich in such factors. sustamize is accessible via Climatiq’s search, Excel add-in, or API integration, making it easy to browse, select, and calculate with the data. All emission factors are processed under rigorous normalization and quality standards, guaranteeing accuracy and enterprise-grade reliability.
To use sustamize through Climatiq, contact our sales team to license the data.
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