Satisfy stakeholder demand with streamlined carbon reports
Seamlessly generate comprehensive emissions reports, appease stakeholders with product assessments, and optimize procurement decisions. Compliance meets strategy, all in one place.
Reduce your climate-related risks by clearly communicating your carbon strategy to key stakeholders and regulators
Custom Reporting
Each company has a different climate strategy. Arbor produces custom reports tailored to your individual needs. Some of these reports include: - Scope 3 Emissions Reports - Avoided Emissions Assessments - Supplier Analysis
Regulatory Compliance
Arbor’s platform empowers companies to maintain regulatory compliance and address greenwashing concerns through the most accurate calculations possible and effective communication. This ensures both legal adherence and ethical transparency, fostering trust among stakeholders, customers, and partners. Let us guide you in navigating regulations and establishing the trust your business truly deserves.
Consumer Transparency
Arbor’s system automates the life cycle assessment process for products, significantly reducing the time required for impact assessments by up to 90%. With each assessment adhering to consistent guidelines, the potential for biases and human error decreases. This translates to saving 10 hours per product in comparison to traditional impact assessment methods.
"With a focus on accuracy and efficiency, Arbor’s software streamlines impact assessments. We plan to continue our collaboration through 2023."
Arbor focuses on providing region-specific data, so you're not stuck relying on broad global averages. Alongside this, a robust Data Quality Rating (DQR) system ensures that each data point goes through a meticulous assessment. This system integrates primary and secondary data in every analysis and uses graded metrics for accurate accountability, offering you a more trustworthy and clear picture of your carbon landscape.
Region-specific accuracy
Arbor focuses on country-level and regional averages, providing you with insights tailored to your specific geographical business operations. This specificity leads to more accurate and actionable insights.
Verifiability
Each data point undergoes a strict assessment through Arbor's Data Quality Rating (DQR) system. This ensures that you're getting reliable, verifiable information for each unique data point.
Multi-framework methodology
When it comes to measuring your carbon footprint, Arbor integrates multiple frameworks such as the GHG Protocol and PEFCR. This methodology approach empowers compliance with regulations and measures a product's lifecycle from cradle-to-gate. The added trust of being a GRI-certified platform further solidifies the credibility of the information you receive, making your path towards effective carbon management clearer.
GRI-certified Platform
As a licensed software partner of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Arbor's platform boasts a level of trust and credibility. This association underscores the rigor and compliance of Arbor's carbon measurement methodology.
Compliance
Arbor's methodology is built to not just meet but exceed various industry-specific regulations. By simulating cradle-to-gate product life cycles, it provides actionable insights that can guide you toward effective and transparent carbon management strategies.
Have more questions?
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Arbor’s region-specific engine performs carbon calculations using data from industry-standard LCA databases, government sources, and peer-reviewed academic reports. We also incorporate data from other publicly available research, sector-specific industry reports, and whitepapers.
What industries do you support?
Arbor’s platform was developed to be able to measure any physical asset in any industry. Arbor has experience calculating products, assets, projects and portfolios across supply chains such as apparel, construction, finance, electronics, agriculture and more.
How long does it take?
The duration of our data processing varies depending on industry specifics and the complexity of the supply chain. In many cases, with all the necessary data provided, our calculations can be as fast as 3 minutes. However, for precise time estimates tailored to your unique requirements, please contact our team. We'll provide a detailed timeline based on your project's industry context and intricacies. Our commitment is to deliver results promptly while upholding the highest data quality standards.
Why should I use Arbor?
Consumers, governments, employees and lenders are all increasingly demanding a focus on Carbon Management. There are over 1,500 climate laws and policies that have been proposed globally, and consumers have been shown to have increased loyalty and higher average order values when the purchase is environmentally friendly. Over two thirds of individuals are more likely to apply, and accept positions to an environmentally sustainable company. With all this demand, the question should be “Why wouldn’t I use Arbor?”
How are you different from your competitors?
Arbor’s Carbon Management platform focuses on accuracy, efficiency and user experience. Traditional Carbon Management methods use global averages and proxy data, whereas Arbor utilizes regional data points specific to your supply chain. Traditional methods can also take months or even years to calculate carbon emissions, where Arbor can calculate in as little as three minutes. Arbor’s platform is consistently praised for its user experience - hear it directly from Varner AS. here.
How can I trust the data I get back?
At Arbor, we go the extra mile to ensure the data you receive is trustworthy. Each data point we use in our calculations undergoes rigorous scrutiny through our Data Quality Rating (DQR) system, which combines primary and secondary data and uses graded metrics for accountability. Our methodology doesn't just meet, but exceeds, industry-specific regulations and incorporates globally recognized frameworks like the GHG Protocol and PEFCR for comprehensive carbon measurements.