Carbon Accounting

51toCarbonZero and HowGood Partner to Advance Food & Beverage Sustainability

October 9, 2025

51toCarbonZero and HowGood Partner to Advance Food & Beverage Sustainability

London & New York – 8 October 2025 – 51toCarbonZero (51-0), the leading climate technology platform, has announced a strategic partnership with HowGood, the world’s largest food product sustainability database, to deliver unprecedented granularity in scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting for the food and beverage sector.

Through this partnership, HowGood’s best-in-class emission factors will now be available to users of 51-0’s climate platform. This integration makes 51-0 a category leader in food and beverage carbon accounting, giving enterprises the insight needed to accelerate credible decarbonisation strategies.

Cultural and technical alignment were key drivers behind the collaboration. Both organisations share a mission to transform the global food system to combat the climate crisis, bringing together HowGood’s deep expertise in food and agriculture with 51-0’s advanced carbon management capabilities and climate advisory.

The partnership is already delivering results, with clients such as Vestey Holdings benefitting from the joint venture. Highlighting the agility and shared commitment of both organisations to accelerate practical climate solutions.

Tangible client benefits include:

  • More granular scope 3 reporting, enabling companies to identify emissions hotspots across supply chains with precision.
  • Improved ability to design and implement effective decarbonisation plans.
  • A unified solution that combines data, platform capability, and advisory expertise.
"Food and beverage companies are under increasing scrutiny from regulators and customers to decarbonise their operations. Partnering with HowGood gives them a cost-efficient way to map complex, multi-tier supply chains and generate scalable, ingredient-level carbon footprints across all products and operations." - Richard Davis, CEO & Co-founder at 51toCarbonZero
"This partnership isn’t for box-checkers - it’s for true climate leaders. By combining HowGood’s granular emissions data with 51-0’s platform and advisory expertise, we’re empowering companies to go beyond compliance and take action on reduction that sets a new benchmark for the industry." - Michael Streitberger, Head of Partnerships at HowGood

About HowGood

HowGood is an independent research company and SaaS Sustainability Intelligence platform with the world’s largest database on food product sustainability. With more than 90,000 agricultural emissions factors, HowGood helps leading brands, suppliers, retailers and restaurants to measure, reduce, and communicate their environmental and social impact. Through in-depth, ingredient-level insights into factors like greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, labor risk, animal welfare, and other key impacts, HowGood’s data power strategic decision-making for the sourcing, manufacturing, merchandising, and marketing of sustainable products.

About 51toCarbonZero

51toCarbonZero is the leading climate technology platform helping organisations move from carbon ambition to action. Its platform consolidates an enterprise’s entire carbon footprint, delivering real-time data, compliance-ready reporting, and actionable insights to drive decarbonisation. While 51-0 has built a strong presence in industries that shape public opinion, such as media and advertising, the company is now expanding into high-impact sectors including food and beverage and automotive - equipping businesses with the tools and expertise to transform their climate performance.