About Made for Planet Carbon
Made for Planet Carbon helps manufacturers work out the carbon footprint of the products they make and send their buyers a figure with every source shown. It is a Made for Planet service run by Mission Sustainability, based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
What we do
Brands and retailers increasingly ask their suppliers for a product carbon footprint. Most suppliers of apparel, footwear and packaging have the data they need, such as materials, weights and energy bills, but not the method or the time to turn it into a figure a buyer can use.
Our tool reads a product from a link, a description or a catalogue upload, asks you to confirm what it read, and calculates the footprint with the ISO 14067 method. You get a PDF report and a PACT v3 data file your customer's systems can read. Our catalogue holds screening footprints for 41,814 products, and our product-type pages show typical figures for each kind of product.
How we work
- Every number has a source. Each emission factor names its database and year; the 61 sources we draw on and their licences are listed on our methodology page.
- You confirm before we calculate. Nothing is calculated until you have checked the materials, weight and country we read.
- We check against the standards. Each footprint is checked against the requirements of ISO 14040/44, ISO 14067 and PACT v3, and the report says which are met.
- We say what we do not know. Gaps, assumptions and data quality are listed in every report.
What we do not claim
Our footprints are screening estimates unless you add your own data. They have not been certified or checked by an independent reviewer, and a footprint on its own does not support a public comparison or a label such as “low carbon”. Our claims checker explains which kinds of wording need more evidence.
Our guides
The 17 guides on our blog are written by the Made for Planet Carbon team for suppliers: what a product carbon footprint is, how to calculate one, the standards behind it, and how to answer a buyer's request. Catalogue figures in the guides are computed from the catalogue each time the site is built.
Contact
Mission Sustainability
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Email: hello@missionsustainability.org
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