PD Luminate: Product Carbon Footprint

Showcase your product’s environmental stewardship with high-quality PCF statements.

Illuminate Your

Net Zero Endevour

Much like the bioluminescence of marine plankton is the chemical reaction that occurs when luciferin reacts with luciferase producing light, Planckton Data brings domain knowledge and technical acumen together to help our clients illuminate their carbon management efforts.


PD Luminate is the standardization and amalgamation of carbon-specific data across your organizational eco-system to produce a comprehensive picture of your company’s sustainability endeavors related to carbon in Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) statements. These standardized reports facilitate the establishment of trust and swiftly demonstrates your commitment to achieving net-zero emissions.

How Planckton Data Generates

High-Quality PCFs

Creating high-quality PCFs requires meticulous attention to data collection, management, and integration. At Planckton Data, we have robust data-driven methology that brings rigor to the PCF creation process and elevates data quality and trust. Our innovative solution addresses the data challenges at every step of the PCF process.

Data
Collection

Collecting good-quality primary data requires extensive engagement from supply chain participants. Typical participation rates are below 10%.

Data Quality
Management

Varying measures for a unit of product, data with varying regional applicability, and varying time scales are all data quality challenges for even the most engaged organizations.

Data
Integration

Seamlessly integrating supplier-provided data with organizational data.

Guidance
Limitations

Adherence to the guidance and limits of what good PCF data should
entail.

Getting Started

with Luminate

Planckton Data takes a structured approach to developing and maturing your PCF capabilities. Utilising our Luminate Data Maturity Framework and secondary data integrations. We start with and incisive workshop model that allows companies to rapidly assess their current-state PCF capabilities, conduct industry benchmarking and set their long-term PCF vision. This two-day Envisioning Workshop creates actionable outputs as opposed to long drawn strategy projects.

Step 1 : Luminate Data Maturity Framework
What you can expect from a Luminate Envisioning Workshop.
Workshop Details

Accelerate your PCF journey now!

Click below to schedule your introductory call and to request a pre-workshop checklist.

Sourcing and Ingesting

PCF Data

Supplier engagement to source primary data is a crucial next step in improving primary data. Integrating this data into internal data sources requires a clear understanding of allocation rules and processes. Planckton Data has several innovative components to enable these:

Campaign Management
Module

Runs data collection campaigns and integrates them seamlessly.

Fleet Data
Collection Module

Collects Scope 3 Category 4 and 9 data.

Data
Integration

Integrates with WBCSD Pathfinder APIs.

Generating Reliable

PCF Statements at Scale

Finally, Luminate provides all the components necessary to automate PCF generation at scale. Our solution is built on industry standard practices from GHG Protocol, and ISO, leveraging the WBCSD Pathfinder model alongside industry-specific product category rules. Key solution highlights:
Automated Data Governance and Controls

Open Footprint™based data governance and controls automation.

Efficient Data Exchange Controls

WBCSD Pathfinder Network-based data exchange controls.

Incorporation of Data Quality Standards

Several data quality standards are incorporated into the PCF workflows, such as GHG Protocol and TfS.

We are here to support your organisation’s sustainability goals.

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