“Carbon Maps automates the assessment of the carbon footprint of our private label food products, and its robust modeling helps us process and analyze thousands of SKUs. These assessments contribute to the reliability of our Scope 3 emissions calculations and are also used to provide transparent information to our consumers through our Carbon'Info, available for more than 6,000 products on the E.Leclerc website and drive-through service. This is a major step forward for E.Leclerc's ‘Savoir d'Achat’ approach.”
Answers to your questions about scaling LCAs and PCFs in the Food industry
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) measures the full environmental impact of a food product from cradle to grave — including farming practices, production, packaging, transport, consumption, and end-of-life. It covers multiple indicators such as carbon emissions, water use, and land use.
A Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is a specific outcome of an LCA, focusing only on greenhouse gas emissions (CO₂e). It’s particularly useful for climate reporting, supply chain engagement, and setting science-based targets. In short: every PCF 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 accurate, comparable, and fast to produce.
Carbon Maps combines product- and ingredient-level granularity at scale. Our platform generates both comprehensive LCAs (multi-impact) and precise 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.
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