Who We Are
TrackCarbon is a food sustainability tech company that develops granular, data-driven environmental impact assessments for multi-ingredient food products. Unlike conventional methods that rely on broad averages, our platform integrates farm-level data, logistics, and regional variability to compute impact across four key metrics: freshwater use, land use, GHG emissions, and water-weighted scarcity.
We take the approach of providing each product with a relative impact score to allow businesses to view the potential for improvement, and to compare the performance of suppliers and receipes. We categorize products into five distinct sustainability classes (A–E), ensuring scientifically robust labelling. By automating farm-to-gate impact tracking at scale, TrackCarbon enables precise, actionable sustainability insights.
TrackCarbon’s methodology was reviewed and approved by Professor Tom Jackson, Independent Scientific Advisor at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science & AI. Alan Turing Institute remains a key academic partner to TrackCarbon. TrackCarbon’s methodology is also aligned with Science-Based Targets Initiative & UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs best practice guidelines for scope 3 product level footprinting.
The power of accurate, product-specific data transcends high level spend-based estimates. Knowing the exact amount of water use, land use and CO2e emissions generated during production and transportation of goods will allow for robust, viable transition plans. Providing your business with credible, accurate and granular data will allow for better purchase choices, and decision-making.
We help food companies to:
- Comply with the EU’s Corporate Reporting Sustainability Directive, the ISSB, and UK’s Energy and Carbon Report regulations 2018 as part of the GHG Protocol, by enforcing data quality and accuracy in calculating impact on land, water and atmosphere.
- Track and calculate their impact on nature from purchased goods and services, category 1 emissions under scope 3.
- Track and calculate emissions from transportation and distribution of goods purchased, category 4 emissions.
- Discern insights into the data, with an impact score and rating (A-E) for each food product. This allows you to view the improvement potential of your food products.
- Increase brand appeal and enhance brand distinction with our scientifically robust product labelling. This provides transparency to consumers.
- Increase revenue from price premiums associated with ‘A’ & ‘B’ rated products via consumer centric labels.
TrackCarbon was born from an independent research project initiated in 2022 by our founder, to commence research and contribute effort to the sustainable prosperity agenda; this seeks to promote sustainable food systems for long-term value creation.
Businesses that we work with include:
