Get Clarity on Your Food Emissions and Your Scope 3 Category 1 Reporting

Food carbon reporting is the process of calculating and disclosing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food and beverage procurement. For food businesses, this typically means quantifying Scope 3 Category 1 emissions—the upstream emissions generated across a company's food supply chain, from raw material production and processing through to delivery from Tier 1 suppliers. Accurate food carbon reporting requires activity-based data (quantities and product types) mapped to ingredient-level emission factors, rather than the spend-based estimates most general carbon tools rely on.

Klimato Food Emissions is purpose-built for food and beverage procurement. Where general carbon accounting platforms calculate food-related emissions using financial spend as a proxy, Klimato maps your actual procurement data—at SKU and ingredient level—to food-specific emission factors derived from peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment studies. That means ingredient-level granularity, FLAG emissions coverage for land use and agriculture, and outputs that are structured for Scope 3 Category 1 reporting specifically. General carbon accounting tools typically cannot match this level of food-specific accuracy. If you need full Scope 1, 2, and 3 reporting across your entire operation, Klimato Carbon Accounting covers that.

Klimato Food Emissions focuses on food procurement data—mapping your purchased SKUs to ingredient-level emission factors for Scope 3 Category 1 reporting. Menu and recipe carbon footprinting, including carbon labeling and recipe engineering, is available through the Klimato App, which can be added as an optional module. The two products work from the same underlying emissions database, so the emission factors are consistent across procurement reporting and menu management.

At minimum, Klimato needs an SKU or ingredient name, an external ID (typically from your procurement system), the consumption country, and the language of your SKU data. To generate full procurement reporting including emissions quantities, you also need purchased units and total weight per unit for each SKU. Klimato handles the data cleaning, merging, and mapping—you don't need to prepare a formatted or standardized file before uploading.

Klimato integrates with a range of procurement and POS systems. Current integration partners include Millum (the largest procurement integration, widely used across Nordic foodservice), Delegate, and KitchenCut. Where a direct integration isn't available, procurement data can be uploaded via Excel or CSV file export from your ERP or procurement system. Reach out to discuss your current setup and the best path for your organization.

Yes. Klimato Food Emissions generates food procurement emissions data structured for CSRD/ESRS E1 disclosure requirements, along with GHG Protocol Scope 3 Category 1 reporting and SBTi/FLAG submissions. Every figure is traceable to its methodology and derived from peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment data verified by IVL and WRI, giving your auditors a credible and defensible basis for reported numbers.

Klimato Food Emissions covers the greenhouse gas emissions from food and beverage procurement, including raw material production, processing, packaging, and transport to Tier 1 suppliers. This aligns with GHG Protocol Scope 3 Category 1 reporting requirements. Transport from Tier 1 suppliers to your own facilities is excluded, as it falls under Scope 3 Category 4 (if paid by your company) or Scope 3 Category 9 (if not). FLAG emissions—covering land use and agriculture—are included, making the data compatible with SBTi FLAG target submissions.

Yes. Klimato Food Emissions can operate as a standalone product, delivering enriched food emissions data back into your existing procurement systems or tools without requiring the Klimato App or other modules. An optional procurement report (Klimato Food Emissions Report) is available as an add-on if you need formatted reporting output for your sustainability team, stakeholders, or auditors.