Your European clients are asking for your footprint. If they do not get it, they apply default values — usually to your disadvantage.
What is at stake
When a buyer does not have your figures, he takes a cautious sector average. It is almost always higher than your real footprint, and it follows you into his own reporting. Producing the data often costs less than living with the estimate.
Two different exercises. The product footprint is calculated process by process, from cradle to gate. The company footprint covers scopes 1, 2 and 3.
What is included and what is left out changes the result as much as the data itself. The scope is written down and justified in the report.
The common databases carry a European mix. The national grid factor has to be substituted, otherwise the result is wrong, and wrong in the unhelpful direction.
Every emission factor is quoted with its source and its limits. That is what makes the report defensible in front of an auditor.
The engagement
We have already run studies on the ecoinvent database. The database used and its cost are agreed with you at the start of the assignment.
Related topics
Tell us exactly what is being asked of you, and in what format. We will tell you which exercise answers it and what data it needs.