From customers, partners, auditors – everyone wants numbers. Fast, accurate and preferably yesterday. But where do you even start? Every department calculates differently, every requirement sounds like its own language, and in the end you get an Excel sheet nobody truly understands. Carbon footprints are considered complicated. Often, that’s true. Not because people lack knowledge, but because they lack structure – and because, in recent years, too many standards, tools and consulting approaches have been added on top.
What was meant to provide guidance has often made the calculations even harder. We are consultants, yes. But with a different goal: reducing complexity. Always have. Especially with product footprints.
Not every gram of CO₂ needs to be dissected if it means losing sight of the big picture. Instead of pseudo-precision, we value clarity, comparability and real impact. Because in voluntary climate action – the space where companies don’t have to act but choose to – it should be easy again.