A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) measures the full environmental impact of afood product from cradle to grave — including farming practices, production,packaging, transport, consumption, and end-of-life. It covers multipleindicators such as carbon emissions, water use, and land use. A ProductCarbon Footprint (PCF) is a specific outcome of an LCA, focusing only ongreenhouse gas emissions (CO₂e). It's particularly useful for climate reporting,supply chain engagement, and setting science-based targets. In short: everyPCF is based on LCA methodology.

With traditional methods, running LCAs or PCFs across hundreds of SKUs is time-consuming. Software like Carbon Maps automates the process, allowing brands, manufacturers, retailers, and foodservice players to calculate carbon footprints and other environmental impacts consistently across thousands of products. This ensures both LCAs and PCFs are reliable, comparable, and fast to produce.

Carbon Maps combines product- and ingredient-level granularity at scale. Our platform generates both comprehensive LCAs (multi-impact) and granular PCFs (carbon-only) across entire product portfolios. All outputs align with international standards such as ISO 14040, 14044, and 14067 as well as the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF).

Yes. By leveraging a growing database of over 34,000 emission factors and Carbon Maps' ability to automatically model complex supply chains, our platform can fill in data gaps, match similar emissions categories and life cycle stages, and generate auditable assessments at the product level, making it possible to assess environmental impact at scale in a cost-effective way.