HowGood Launches the Global Carbon Database, Making Best-in-Class Agricultural Emissions Data Readily Available to the Food Industry

Meeting Tight Budgets, Rising Industry Demands

Across the food industry, sustainability teams face a pressing challenge: they must deliver credible carbon reporting and meet corporate net-zero commitments, even as budgets tighten and resources remain limited. Existing generic emission factor databases, while broad, lack the depth, granularity, and food-specific expertise needed to produce reliable and actionable insights — leaving teams without the tools required to meet their goals.

The Global Carbon Database responds to today’s sustainability pressures:

• Accessible and affordable: A lighter-touch entry point to HowGood’s trusted emissions data.
  
  
• Immediate deployment: Food-specific emission factors without lengthy onboarding timelines.
  
  
• Credible and compliant: Aligned with GHG Protocol, ISO 14067, and PACT framework, with HowGood’s Carbon Trust certified methodology.
  
  
• Food-system expertise: Superior ingredient coverage, including processed foods and realistic ingredient concentrations.

Standardizing Carbon Data Across the Food Sector

Even before its public launch, the Global Carbon Database is being adopted by leading sustainability platforms. HowGood partners, including Normative and 51toCarbonZero, have already begun integrating the GCD into their solutions, helping to establish a shared foundation of credible, food-specific emissions data. This early adoption underscores the role of the GCD in driving consistency and comparability across the industry, enabling companies to align on a common standard for carbon reporting.

Powered by the World’s Largest Food Sustainability Dataset

With decades of food industry expertise, HowGood brings unmatched agricultural emissions granularity to the GCD. Unlike generic lifecycle databases, it reflects the on-the-ground realities of food and agriculture, with custom datasets available based on geography — and because it is built on the same methodology as HowGood’s flagship platform, Latis, companies can later scale into advanced supply-chain footprinting without re-baselining.

“The industry has been asking for a tool that makes carbon reporting both accessible and credible,” said Nina DePalma, Chief Product Officer at HowGood. “With the Global Carbon Database, any food business — no matter its size or resources — can meet reporting requirements quickly while laying the groundwork for deeper emissions reduction strategies.”

Audit-ready, Scalable Solution

The Global Carbon Database enables companies to meet today’s reporting requirements with confidence while laying the groundwork for tomorrow’s sustainability goals. By providing a credible, food-specific foundation for carbon accounting, it not only ensures compliance with leading standards like CDP and SBTi but also empowers companies to progress toward meaningful emissions reductions and long-term climate leadership.

To learn more about HowGood’s Global Carbon Database, visit our website.