CarbonCloud: A Comprehensive Sustainability Platform for Food Companies

What CarbonCloud actually does

CarbonCloud is a carbon accounting platform built specifically for the food industry: it calculates Scope 3 emissions across a food company’s entire supply chain, automates supplier data collection, and produces audit-ready product carbon footprints aligned with the GHG Protocol and ISO 14067. Founded by climate scientists in Gothenburg, Sweden, it runs on what the company describes as the world’s largest food-specific carbon footprint dataset.

“We decided to calculate the climate footprint of our products with CarbonCloud, to focus on the number that drives the food system change.”

Sustainability Manager, Oatly

Where the emissions data comes from

• Automated Scope 3 calculations: AI-matched against a proprietary emissions-factor database, refined continuously with real supplier data
• Supplier engagement: automated outreach and data-validation workflows instead of manual spreadsheets
• Product carbon footprints: calculated from a company’s own bill of materials, with carbon labels ready to publish
• SBTi FLAG reporting: baseline tracking and reduction targets built for food and agriculture’s specific science-based target framework

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CarbonCloud does not publish aggregate reduction percentages, so this page leads with who actually uses the platform in production rather than an invented headline number.

Why food supply chains specifically

Multi-tiered agricultural supply chains are notoriously hard to measure: a single food product can carry emissions from dozens of farms, processors and shippers before it reaches a shelf. CarbonCloud’s AI engine matches a company’s product portfolio against its emissions database to give calculation control “from farm to shelf,” rather than the industry-average estimates most carbon accounting tools fall back on for food.

Why this belongs on a sustainability directory

Food systems account for close to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and most of it sits in Scope 3, outside any single company’s direct control. Tools that make supplier-level emissions data collectible and auditable are what let food companies set real science-based targets instead of estimates. That is the concrete link between CarbonCloud’s product and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), the two SDGs actually tagged on this project.