With customers, governments, employees, and investors all asking for transparency, it's important for your business to take the lead. Embrace carbon transparency to make sure you're not left behind in this changing landscape.
Eliminate greenwashing by conveying your carbon story with authentic data
Product-page Widget
Enhance your online presence by showcasing product impacts directly on your website, and comparing your carbon impact to industry benchmarks. In a time of ethical consumerism, prioritizing transparency and sustainability can set your business apart.
Data Quality Rating
All the data we use to calculate a product’s impact is assigned a Data Quality Rating (DQR). Each DQR is assessed based on geographical, technological, and time-based representatives as well as the precision of data. An overall DQR is then assigned to the product based on the individual data points that make up each step in the process of making the product itself.
Transparency Pages
Enhance your data's credibility with an automated transparency page that validates the information. Companies can clearly present essential assumptions, including material aspects, supply chain stages, and manufacturing sites. Arbor’s transparency pages communicate the methodology used in carbon impact calculations to stakeholders, ensuring full transparency throughout.
"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.
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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.