Our solution
A tool that empowers you to take control of your entire sustainability performance.
Best of both worlds
By applying the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology through the lens of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, Root offers the most inclusive overview of your company’s carbon footprint. Whereas the GHG Protocol aims to measure the global carbon footprint of a company, LCA zooms in to the environmental impact of a single product or service. Thus, by combining the accuracy of LCA with the inclusiveness of the GHG Protocol, Root empowers you with the best of both worlds.
1 Upload data
First things first. let’s collect your company and product data. To calculate your impact, Root needs data inputs such as purchase and sales orders data, bills of materials, supplier locations, energy consumption, and transport routes and modes.
2 Measure impact
Once your data is collected, Root transforms it into actionable carbon and environmental footprints for both products and the entire company. We display these impacts in terms of kg CO2 equivalents or total environmental costs in euros (eco-costs).
Root follow the ISO 14040/14044 standards for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), linking raw value chain data to reference databases like Ecoinvent, and applying methodologies such as ReCiPe. We also ensure comprehensive accounting through the GHG Protocol. environmental impact outputs, such as the carbon footprint (kg CO2 eq.) or total environmental footprint (eco-points or eco-cost).
3 Analyse insights
Time to explore the results. Our interactive dashboards help you identify key emission drivers and conduct detailed impact analyses. Zoom in on specific products, materials, suppliers, transport routes, or customers to understand their contributions to your overall footprint.
4 Optimise impact
With key impact contributors identified, use our scenario builder to model alternative strategies and discover the most effective reduction strategies for you products an company. Explore various options, such as selecting more sustainable materials, optimising your supply chain, enhancing recycling efforts, extending product lifespans or implementing circular economy strategies.
5 Track
Finally, Root motiors your progress and assesses the effectiveness of the applied strategies. Track how these strategies perform over time, and communicate the results externally to enhance transparency, comply with the latest regulations, and meet customer and investor expectations.
1 Collect
First things first. Let’s collect data. Through easy integration with existing management systems, Root collects data inputs such as: bill of materials, supplier locations, energy consumption and sales distribution. From here, Root does the hard work, so you can sit back and relax.
2 Measure
Once the data is collected, Root’s solution converts inputs into environmental impact outputs, such as the carbon footprint (kg CO2 eq.) or total environmental footprint (eco-points or eco-cost).
In this process, Root follows the ISO 14040/14044 standards for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The raw value chain data are linked to reference data from a Life Cycle Inventory database, such as Ecoinvent. Next, inputs are converted into desired outputs by means of a Life Cycle Impact methodology, such as ReCiPe. All company activities are accounted for by applying the lens of the GHG Protocol.
3 Visualise
Time to show the results! Through Root’s intuitive dashboard, your company’s environmental footprint is visualised. This dashboard provides both an overview of the entire environmental footprint, as well as an in-depth impact analysis of each product and phase within the value chain. This way, the hotspots are highlighted, so that you can start improving effectively.
4 Optimise
Next, Root’s intuitive scenario feature empowers you to explore pathways to optimise the environmental footprint. This feature makes it possible to model how various alterations optimise the identified hotspots of the value chain. Alterations could include choosing more sustainable materials, optimising the supply chain, recycling, lifespan extension of products or the application of other (circular) strategies.
5 Track
Finally, Root tracks your progress and reviews how applied (circular) strategies work out. Results may then be communicated externally to promote transparency, and thereby meet the needs of customers, (future) employees and investors.
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