Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
A Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) helps companies measure and reduce CO₂ emissions by ensuring transparency, consistency, and informed decarbonization decisions.
As industries face growing pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, measuring CO₂ impact across the entire product lifecycle has become essential. A PCF enables companies to track emissions from raw materials to production, transportation, and disposal. By using standardized methodologies and interoperable systems, businesses can calculate and report real emissions data, supporting effective decarbonization strategies. Transparent PCF reporting fosters cross-industry collaboration and helps organizations work toward a more sustainable future.
Challenges
- Data silos: Collecting and sharing CO2 data (scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) across upstream and downstream processes remains fragmented, especially across multiple suppliers.
- Lack of trust: Companies are reluctant to share sensitive data due to competitive and privacy concerns.
- Standardization gaps: Inconsistent measurement and reporting frameworks lead to unreliable and non-comparable results.
- Regulatory pressures: Increasing demand for validated end-to-end PCF reporting creates urgency but also strains current capabilities.
- Complexity of value chains: Multi-tier suppliers and geographically distributed processes complicate efforts to achieve seamless data exchange.
Solutions
- Enabling secure data exchange with standardized and interoperable dataspaces, ensuring transparent and trusted PCF reporting.
- Simplifying integration through plug-and-play connectors, allowing organizations to act as both data providers and consumers while maintaining data sovereignty.
- Providing a scalable PCF environment that supports automated CO₂ calculations and compliance with evolving regulations.
- Ensuring trust and data integrity with Verifiable Credentials (VCs), allowing businesses to share emissions data securely while protecting sensitive information.
- Automating data collection and validation to reduce manual effort, minimize errors, and improve the accuracy of carbon footprint calculations.
Benefits
Trustful
T-Systems’ independent and secure global network entrusted with the initial Gaia-X Digital Clearing House node in Europe
Interactive
Highly intuitive UI for credential holder along with easy-to-use recipient & credential lifecycle management
Intelligent
Service based on customer parameters to allocate trust-levels across dataspace participants for added trust
Sovereign
Use your credentials in any dataspace and maintain control over your self-sovereign identity (SSI).
Interoperable
Take your identities to other data-driven ecosystems for complete interoperability within data mesh context