Our service Impact-Wise is under development and available to pilot for early adopters. Impact-Wise serves to enhance carbon and environmental impact accounting and reporting for manufacturers for their facilities. Importantly, impact reports can be verified to comply with international standards for carbon accounting.

The foundation of Impact-Wise is to improve manufacturers' capacity to manage data across three levels: their overall facilities, the processes within those facilities, and the materials used, down to the detailed compound and mixture level. Our methodology enables the attribution of direct emissions occurring at a facility (scope 1 emissions) and indirect emissions related to energy consumption (scope 2 emissions). It also enables collection and estimation of end-to-end supply chain emissions (scope 3 emissions) to provide a comprehensive carbon footprint. This is achieved through primary data collection from processes and secondary data from carbon factor databases and calculations.

The carbon datasets are converted automatically in standardised formats, for reporting based on the ISO 14067 reporting standard for the carbon footprint of products, and for data exchange based on the Partnership for Carbon Transparency data structures. From there they can also be converted into carbon values for reporting standards, including for Environmental Product Declarations, and the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Estimating facility carbon data (Scope 1 emissions)

Impact-Wise comes with an attribution mechanism to provide for facility emissions based on process categorisation.  This allows for reporting carbon data whether it is directly measured from process sensors, or estimations based on process databases and carbon factors. More complicated cases can also be calculated using a mass balance approach between carbon in facility inputs, in emissions, and carbon remaining in the facility product, using combined process and material databases and declarations. 

Calculating energy consumption carbon data (Scope 2 emissions)

Manufacturing facilities use energy consumption for processes and requires transportation to obtain component or material inputs and to distribute products. Impact-Wise provides for an energy usage to carbon conversion calculator using regionally and transport specific emission factors. Also considering on-site renewable energy that is generated to evaluate carbon savings. Transport distances and modes can be manually entered or automatically retrieved if transport information is logged in Digital Product Passports when ImpactWise is combined with TraceWise for the product life cycle, and with TrustWise for supply chain end to end traceability.

Collecting and estimating full supply chain carbon data (Scope 3 emissions)

The estimation of full supply chain carbon data in Impact-Wise is based on a combination of approaches to provide for an as complete estimate as possible. The process chain from raw materials and/or recycled materials is estimated using process stage templates for different product categories, considering the component and material inputs from defined Digital Product Passports. Manual configuration can provide additional specific details including location refinement. Subsequently, the emissions estimates are provided with secondary emissions databases for these activities from emission factor databases and quantity calculations. Also, supplier specific emissions where available can be attributed. This provides for a complete end-to-end carbon chain calculation estimate. 

Accuracy can be further improved by adding the TrustWise service, a decentralised end-to-end traceability system that EcoWise is developing, for supply chains from raw materials and/or recycled materials up to the final manufacturer across Tiers 1 to 6. This service uses a flexible interoperable way of linking data across supply chains including data integration options for other decentralised identity and data management systems. Complementing existing supplier data collection services.