Sweep, HowGood Partner on Product Carbon Footprint Solutions for Food and Ag Companies

Enterprise sustainability data management platform Sweep and product carbon footprint automation company HowGood announced the launch of a new partnership, providing solutions enabling food and agriculture companies to track and report product-level food emissions.

According to Sweep and HowGood, the new partnership comes as food and agriculture companies face mounting pressure to report emissions with greater specificity, including through new sustainability reporting regulations such as the EU’s CSRD and California’s SB 253, while food products can involve dozens of ingredients from multiple suppliers and countries of origin.

Sweep CEO and cofounder Rachel Delacour said:

“Food companies sit on some of the most complex sustainability data in any industry, and too often it stays locked in spreadsheets and disconnected systems, too fragmented to report on with confidence.”

Under the new partnership, HowGood’s database of more than 12 million product carbon footprints across food and agricultural supply chains will be integrated directly into Sweep’s platform. According to the companies, the integration will provide companies with ingredient- and product-level emissions data for Scope 3 carbon accounting and regulatory reporting, as well as for supplier engagement.

The companies said that the joint solution will support a range of reporting maturity, including standard food-specific emissions factors, custom calculations based on a company’s own product and sourcing data, and primary-data calculations built from direct supplier inputs and agricultural practices.

HowGood CEO Alexander Gillet said:

“Generic industry averages have long been the weakest link in corporate carbon accounting for food companies, introducing uncertainty that keeps companies from being able to bridge the gap from reporting to reduction. By bringing HowGood’s granular emissions data directly into Sweep’s reporting infrastructure, we’re replacing that uncertainty with auditable and actionable numbers that reflect how a company actually sources and manufactures.”