Calculate product carbon footprints
Important
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Jun 2025 | - |
Business value
Achieve greater alignment and efficiency by unifying your corporate emissions calculations with product footprint assessments in Microsoft Sustainability Manager. This integration streamlines data management, providing a holistic view of your environmental impact across both operational and product-level activities, helping you make informed sustainability decisions and meet regulatory requirements more effectively.
Feature details
You can calculate the carbon footprint of your products by using bills of materials, emissions factors, associated emissions, and allocated emissions in Sustainability Manager. This feature allows you to compute product footprints using both top-down and bottom-up approaches, providing a comprehensive view of your products' environmental impact. Key capabilities include product footprint calculation and both top-down and bottom-up approaches.
You can use your activity and emissions data within Microsoft Sustainability Manager to calculate the carbon footprint of your products. The calculation supports:
Bill of materials (BOM): Use the materials that make up a product to assess your individual and collective carbon impacts.
Emissions factors: Apply specific emissions factors to materials and activities to determine accurate carbon output.
Associated and allocated emissions: Include relevant emissions tied to the product, from production to distribution, to ensure a holistic footprint analysis.
Cradle-to-grave assessment: Calculate the total carbon footprint of a product from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal, capturing the entire lifecycle impact.
The top-down and bottom-up approaches include:
Top-down approach: Start from the total corporate emissions and allocate a share of emissions to specific products, providing a broad overview of product-level impacts.
Bottom-up approach: Calculate the footprint by focusing on the materials and activities that constitute the product, giving a granular view of how individual components contribute to the overall footprint.