Carbon footprints for food and beverage, from the field to every product.
We measure the inventory of meat packers, dairies, wineries, sugar mills and juice makers, and the footprint of every product that leaves their plants: with the raw material from the field, the cold chain, effluents and packaging, and in the format buyers ask for.
GHG Protocol
ISO 14064‑1
ISO 14067
ISO 14046
SBTi FLAG
PACT
One plant makes several products. Each one carries its share of the emissions.
The plant
What goes in, what comes out and how it is split
The inventory takes every input of the plant with its scope and splits the total among the products. The allocation rule changes each product's footprint, so the report states it.
Citrus plant · one year
Scope 1Scope 2Scope 3Illustrative example
Product
Tonnes
By mass
Own share
Concentrated juice
9,000
0.28
55%0.26
Essential oil
300
0.28
25%3.50
Dried peel
5,700
0.28
20%0.15
kg CO₂e per kg of product
By mass, every product carries the same per kilo. With an own share —for example, by the value of each one— the essential oil carries far more.
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Specific to the sector
The emissions that weigh most in food
Besides the energy and purchases of any plant, a food business has sources of its own. Each one is calculated with its own method and lands in its scope.
Livestock
Scope 1
Enteric fermentation and manure from owned dairies and feedlots, with Argentina's national inventory factors by region, category and technology level.
Biomass boilers
Scope 1 · biogenic CO₂ separate
Bagasse and other biomass: methane and nitrous oxide go into scope 1 and biogenic CO₂ is reported separately, as the GHG Protocol requires.
Effluents
Scope 1 or category 5
Methane and nitrous oxide from meat-packing, dairy and sugar-mill effluents under IPCC 2019, from the organic load and nitrogen.
Cold chain
Scopes 1 and 3
Refrigerant leaks from cold rooms, and refrigerated transport with its own factor on every leg.
Water footprint
ISO 14046
The water footprint of every product, with the water scarcity of the basin where the water is used.
Packaging
Scope 3
Production and end of life of packaging, with the recycling, landfill and incineration of each destination country.
Scope 3, with data from the people who sell to you
In food and beverage, most of the footprint usually sits in the raw material coming from the field. With a generic factor, that share doesn't reflect your growers and doesn't improve when they do.
The platform asks each supplier for its data through a link, without them having to create an account, and flags the quality of every number so you know where to ask first.
Request by link
The supplier enters its footprint per unit, the year and how it was obtained.
Manufacturer footprint
If your supplier published a verified footprint of its product, it replaces the average.
Services by spend
Maintenance, civil works, insurance and fees, with a factor per amount spent.
Uncertainty
Quality of every data point and the inventory's confidence interval under the GHG Protocol.
Every product's footprint, in the format your customers ask for
Retailers and brands that buy food and ingredients increasingly ask for the footprint of each product, and they want it in a format their systems can read, not in a PDF.
The platform calculates each product's footprint under ISO 14067 and publishes it with the PACT standard, with the data quality indicators that standard requires.
Per product
Cradle to plant gate, per kilo or per the unit it is sold in.
PACT exchange
A PACT Network solution: the customer's system reads the footprint by API, with no spreadsheets in between.
Data quality
Technological, geographical and temporal representativeness under PACT and PEF.
Downstream
Processing and use reported by the customer, and end of life of packaging by country.
Product footprintIllustrative example
Concentrated lemon juice
Declared unit
1 kg
Boundary
Cradle to gate
Period
2025
Standard
ISO 14067 · PACT
Carbon footprint
0.26 kg CO₂e/kg
Data quality
1 = best · 5 = worst
Technological1.8
Geographical1.4
Temporal1.2
PACT API
PDF report
ILCD
Standards
The standards the sector requires
GHG Protocol and ISO 14064‑1
Inventory by plant
Boilers, livestock and refrigerants in scope 1
Effluents treated on site
Scope 3 with grower and supplier data
ISO 14067 · ISO 14046 · PACT
Product footprint
Carbon and water footprint per product
Allocation between co-products
Exchange with customers as a PACT Network solution
SBTi FLAG
Land targets
Food and beverage processing is a designated sector
A required FLAG target, separate from energy and industry
SASB for processed foods and agricultural products
GRI content index
Benchmark
How your company compares with its sector
We compare your targets with those of food and beverage companies in the region that have entered the Science Based Targets process: how many have a validated target, what reduction they commit to, and by when.
How do your targets compare with your sector in the region?
Illustrative values. Universe: sector companies that entered the SBTi process.
Frequently asked questions
When one process yields more than one product, ISO 14067 requires splitting the emissions among them. The platform allocates by mass or with shares the company defines —for example, by each product's economic value—, and the report states the rule used.
For what is bought in kilos or units, a factor from a life cycle database is used; for services, a factor per amount spent. Every number carries its quality level, which shows which suppliers to ask for data first.
It is the WBCSD standard for calculating and exchanging product footprints between companies. It defines a common methodology and an interface so the customer's system reads the supplier's footprint directly. Emetrix is listed in the PACT Network of solutions, supporting Tech Specification version 3.
Yes. If the effluent is treated in the company's own plant, the methane and nitrous oxide it generates are scope 1; if a third party treats it, they go into scope 3 category 5. They are calculated with the IPCC 2019 method, from the effluent's organic load and nitrogen.
Methane and nitrous oxide from combustion go into scope 1. The CO₂ is biogenic: the GHG Protocol requires reporting it separately, outside the scope totals, and the platform shows it apart.
Refrigerant leaks from cold rooms and equipment are scope 1, with each gas's global warming potential. The electricity the cooling uses is already in the site's scope 2, so it isn't counted again.
Want to see your plant in the platform?
Bring a year of consumption and each product's output, and in the demo we'll show you the inventory by scope and the footprint of each one.
