Specialist carbon accounting platform for food companies
With My Emissions, you have access to a robust food emissions database for carbon accounting. You can accurately measure your Scope 3 emissions from food, decarbonise, and achieve Net-Zero targets.
Robust emissions data for food carbon calculations
My Emissions has developed a data-driven life cycle assessment approach to instantly calculate the carbon emissions of a food product or meal.
Our food emissions database covers all emissions from farm-to-store, including packaging and transport. This is also the system boundary of our product assessments and corresponding carbon label.
Accurately report your Scope 3 emissions from food
The majority of carbon emissions from food comes from farming, including agriculture and land-use change. As a result, purchased food represents the bulk of emissions for most food companies. Accurately reporting your scope 3 emissions is crucial for reducing your carbon footprint and achieving Net-Zero.
With our purchase reports, you can accurately measure your Scope 3 emissions related to food and packaging. We utilise activity-based data to improve data quality. The data aligns with the GHG Protocol’s Category 1 – Purchased Goods and Services, so can feed directly into your carbon accounting.
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267,000
Recipes assessed
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Frequently asked questions
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My Emissions is a specialist carbon accounting platform for food companies. We offer both Product Carbon Assessments and Corporate GHG Assessments for food, which we define below.
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A Product Carbon Assessment measures the carbon footprint of a food product from farm-to-store, including the farming, processing, packaging and transport emissions. We collect primary data to calculate each of these life cycle stages. Where primary data is not available, we will supplement with third-party data.
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A Corporate Greenhouse Gas Assessment calculates the direct and indirect emissions associated with a company. These emissions are grouped into three categories: Scope 1, 2 and 3. Just like a financial report, a Corporate GHG Assessment is done yearly, so you can compare results over time. You can use the Assessment to set Net-Zero targets, which can be validated with SBTi.
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Scope 1 emissions: covers direct emissions from owned or controlled sources (ex. fuel combustion, company vehicles, fugitive emissions).
Scope 2 emissions: covers indirect emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, steam, heating, and cooling consumed by the reporting company.
Scope 3 emissions: includes all other indirect emissions that occur in a company’s value chain. There are 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions, including purchased goods and services, business travel, employee commuting, waste disposal, transportation and distribution (up-and downstream), and more.
You need to report all Scope 1 and 2 emissions, but reporting Scope 3 emissions is optional for most companies. Nevertheless, we follow WRAP and SBTi guidance and recommend food companies report at least 90% of your Scope 3 emissions.
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For a business to achieve Net-Zero, direct and indirect emissions (Scope 1-3 emissions) are reduced as much as possible. Once reduced, you can offset any remaining emissions. You usually set a baseline year to start measuring, and then report emissions every year to track progress.
A Net-Zero policy is different to carbon neutral because (1) it must cover your company’s entire business emissions (scopes 1-3) and (2) you must reduce emissions as much as possible before you can factor in offsetting.
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Food carbon labelling is the calculation and subsequent display of the carbon footprint of a food product or dish. To make it easy to understand, My Emissions gives food a carbon rating from A (Very Low) to E (Very High).
The ratings are based on carbon intensity, meaning the emissions produced for every 1 kg of food for that product or dish.
Inspired by existing nutritional labelling, which often uses thresholds based on the ‘per 100g’ nutritional content of food.
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My Emissions has gives food a carbon rating from A to E, where A means Very Low and E means Very High emissions. We use the latest climate science to set the thresholds for our carbon ratings:
Threshold for A-B ratings: Aligned with the EAT-Lancet Commission’s Report (Willett et al., 2019), which defines a healthy and sustainable diet.
Threshold for C rating: aligned to the leading estimates for current average GHG emissions from the food sector (Poore & Nemecek, 2018 and Crippa et al., 2021).
After setting these thresholds, we took an equal distribution to set the remaining A-E ratings. We verified these bands against a statistical analysis of the foods in our database.