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Eviden develops digital solution to calculate product carbon footprints within the chemical industry in partnership with BASF
Eviden has launched a digital solution for companies in the chemical and process industries to identify, monitor and ultimately reduce the carbon footprint of chemical products. The solution has been developed in a strong partnership with BASF, who initially provided its methodology for calculating the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) of chemical products. Based on this, Eviden created a modern, state-of-the-art software solution to automatically calculate the PCF of thousands of chemical products in accordance with relevant ISO standards such as 14067:2018, GHG Protocol and the Together for Sustainability (TfS) industry standard.
Product Carbon Footprint as a value driver
A clear and transparent PCF shows customers how a company is reducing emissions and be a key differentiator against competitors
Communication of sustainability credentials can increase growth (>7x) and produce a significant price premium (39.5%)
Broadly available PCFs internally can be a key source of innovation for low-emissions products
Eco-innovation has been shown to benefit company profitability, growth, and competitiveness
Precise PCFs help mitigate financial risk associated with carbon emissions in the value chain, like a carbon border tax that puts a price on embedded carbon, as currently being introduced by the EU.
Key benefits of the PCF Platform
Supplier specific data
Most PCFs rely on secondary data (e.g. LCA databases) for raw material emissions
The PCF platform is set up to both provide and allow for use of supplier specific PCF data. This provides higher accuracy and ability to reduce emissions
Internal supply chain
Chemicals companies often produce themselves products that are then used for other products
The platform enables calculation of PCFs for products with an “internal supply chain” consistently and transparently, using standardized allocation rules
Link to Scope 1 & 2
Many Product Carbon Footprints use generic or estimated data for emissions from energy
Assessing the entire product portfolio, the PCF platform directly links a company’s corporate carbon footprint (Scope 1&2) with PCFs
Scenario Analysis
Product/Process Comparison will allow to compare two PCF datasets identified by concrete triplets.
Scenario Analysis will provide the ability to change the parameters raw material, utilities and/or transport for analytical reasons and to recalculate the PCF
Lifecycle Impact Assessment
The Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) explorer shows a product’s impact on other categories than carbon (GHG) emissions.
The categories as defined by the EU’s EF3.1 package can be considered in the PCF Platform. Those impacts are calculated applying the same methodology as for GHG emissions.
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Voices of our Partners and Clients
Dr. Julien Renvoise
Sustainability Business Development Leader at Trinseo
While we at Trinseo have been communicating about our own carbon footprint for many years, it is still a manual and extremely labor-intensive process to do so at the product level. Starting with some of our flagship products, we will explore how we can automate this with the help of Eviden (an Atos company) and its PCF platform.
Rob Portsmouth
Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Venator
We recognise that what we do today has an impact on the world of tomorrow […]. The collaboration with Eviden (an Atos Company), in which we automate the calculation of the CO2 footprint of our products, is a big step forward. She will help Venator achieve our goals by identifying optimization opportunities necessary to make our company and product portfolio even more sustainable.
Alessandro Pistillo
Director Digital Strategic Projects at BASF
CO2 transparency is an important basis for steering towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. [..] Eviden (an Atos company) is the first partner we are working with to make our digital solution and methodology available to other industry players, including our suppliers and customers.
Arne Kätelhön
CEO & Co-founder AT Carbon Minds
Carbon Minds provide data on the environmental impacts of chemicals and plastics. Our data fits perfectly with the Product Carbon Footprint Platform from Eviden (an Atos Company). Together we enable more accurate assessments of supply chain emissions, environmental target setting, and decision making for carbon footprint reduction.
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Press release: Atos develops digital solution to calculate product carbon footprints within the chemical industry in partnership with BASF
Recording of the LinkedIn-Event “BASF & Atos Partnership: Automated Product Carbon Footprint Calculation”
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