CSRD Reporting Data for Food & Beverage

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One dataset, your whole environmental disclosure.

Build the data once and it flows into every ESRS environmental data point, each traced to source.

Compute Scope 3, don't estimate it

Scope 3 Category 1 from agriculture is the single hardest ESRS number. We compute it from real recipes and bills of materials, not sector averages, at product and ingredient level. The figure your auditor trusts.

Report once, disclose everywhere

The data you build for your carbon footprint auto-produces ESRS data points across E1 climate, E4 land use and E5 packaging and waste. One computation, multiple disclosures.

Auditable by design

Every figure carries lineage back to its source document and emission-factor version, recomputed each year against a persistent product database. Exactly what a limited-assurance audit tests for.

Product-level carbon and water footprints, calculated from your actual recipes

Carbon Maps builds lifecycle assessments from your real bills of materials, covering Scope 3 Category 1 by default and pinpointing which ingredients and SKUs drive impact. It rolls up into your corporate footprint, so E1 climate disclosures and per-product intensity come from the same source.

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Land use and deforestation at the ingredient level

Carbon Maps computes ingredient-level land-use change and traces EUDR commodities like soy, palm oil, cocoa and coffee back through your supply chain, covering the E4 biodiversity data points where agri-food auditors look hardest.

Supplier data that holds up to a challenge

Engage your suppliers at scale with ESRS-aligned templates, backed by the emission-factor bases auditors expect: Base Empreinte, Agribalyse, and Ecoinvent. When primary data isn't available, your estimates rest on a defensible foundation instead of generic sector averages.

Discover how we engage suppliers

Why food and beverage teams choose Carbon Maps for CSRD

A side-by-side look at Scope 3, supplier data and audit readiness.

Without Carbon Maps

With Carbon Maps

Scope 3 Category 1

Sector averages auditors increasingly challenge

Ingredient-level, traceable to actual recipes and sourcing

Product-level footprints

Unavailable or consultant one-offs

Every SKU, automated, updated when data changes

Supplier data

Manual, inconsistent, hard to scale

Structured collection at scale, ESRS-aligned templates, backed by emission factor databases auditors recognise

ESRS coverage

E1 only, or partial across standards

E1, E4 and E5 from one shared data model

Year-on-year reporting

Starts again each cycle

Persistent database, progress tracked automatically

Audit readiness

Gaps that risk a failed audit opinion

Every calculation documented and defensible

trust & compliance

Data built to survive the audit

Limited assurance means a third party checks your numbers. Carbon Maps is built so they hold up.

Our carbon accounting is validated by Bureau Veritas against ISO 14040, 14044 and 14067, and our PACT Methodology V3 is independently validated by TÜV Rheinland under ISO 14064-3. The standards your auditor already recognises.
Each number carries lineage back to its source document and emission-factor version. When an auditor asks why your Scope 3 figure is credible, you have the evidence trail, not just an estimate.
A persistent product database recomputes your footprint each reporting cycle, so your data stays comparable and audit-ready as requirements tighten toward reasonable assurance.

FAQ

What food & bev teams ask about CSRD

The compliance, scope and audit questions that come up most often.

Does Carbon Maps produce my full CSRD report?

Carbon Maps produces the auditable environmental data behind a CSRD report, not the full report itself. Carbon Maps computes Scope 3 emissions, land use, packaging and water at product and ingredient level. A food or beverage company's consultants, legal team and auditors then use that data to draft the ESRS narrative, obtain assurance and publish the sustainability report. Carbon Maps gives those teams real computed evidence to work from instead of estimates.

Does CSRD still apply to a food company under 1,000 employees after the Omnibus Directive?

The EU Omnibus Directive raised the CSRD thresholds, so many food and beverage companies under 1,000 employees are no longer mandatory reporters. However, if a company's largest customers are large EU food businesses, those customers must still report their own supply chain emissions and will request product-level emissions data from their suppliers. The obligation to provide supply-chain data to customers does not disappear when a company falls below the CSRD reporting threshold.

Which ESRS data points does Carbon Maps cover?

Carbon Maps covers the environmental ESRS data points that depend on real supply-chain data: ESRS E1 climate (including Scope 3 Category 1 emissions from agriculture), ESRS E4 land use and deforestation, and ESRS E5 packaging and waste. These ESRS data points are the ones generic ESG tools leave as blank fields, because these data points cannot be computed without product-level lifecycle assessment data.

Why can't a generic ESG platform compute food and beverage Scope 3 emissions?

Most generic ESG platforms are form-fillers: the platform provides a questionnaire and waits for a company to supply the answers. The hardest food and beverage data points, such as Scope 3 emissions from agriculture and ingredient-level land use, cannot be answered from a questionnaire. These data points must be computed from recipes, bills of materials and supplier data. Carbon Maps performs that computation, which is the capability generic ESG platforms lack.

How does Carbon Maps make Scope 3 figures hold up in a limited-assurance audit?

Carbon Maps gives every Scope 3 figure lineage back to its source document and emission-factor version, built on the emission-factor bases auditors recognise: Base Empreinte, Agribalyse, and Ecoinvent. Auditors increasingly challenge generic sector-average estimates for high-impact food supply chains, so a traceable, computed Scope 3 figure from Carbon Maps is far more defensible in a limited-assurance audit than an estimate.

Is Carbon Maps' carbon accounting methodology independently validated?

Carbon Maps' carbon accounting methodology is independently validated. Bureau Veritas validates the methodology against ISO 14040, 14044 and 14067, and TÜV Rheinland independently validates Carbon Maps' PACT Methodology V3 under ISO 14064-3.