Businesses everywhere are moving towards net zero but tackling Scope 3 emissions remains one of the biggest challenges they face. For most, these indirect emissions arising from suppliers, materials, and logistics, make up the largest share of their footprint.

While tracking emissions from offices and factories is relatively straightforward, the real complexity lies in the supply chain, where every component or ingredient carries its own carbon footprint. Until now, product-level emissions data has been fragmented, inconsistent, and difficult to exchange, creating a major barrier to credible, scalable decarbonisation.

That’s why we’re proud to announce that Evalue8 is the first carbon accounting platform in Australia to achieve PACT Conformance, aligning our solutions with a globally recognised framework for transparent, credible, and scalable product carbon footprint reporting.

What is a Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)?

A Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) measures the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with a product across its life cycle, from raw material sourcing to production, distribution, use, and end-of-life.

PCFs provide a granular, comparable view of emissions at the product level, helping businesses identify high-impact areas in their supply chain and make informed decarbonisation decisions.

Take the example of a juice producer. The company can track emissions from its factory operations easily, but the real footprint comes from oranges from multiple farms, sugar from regional suppliers, glass bottles from overseas, and the logistics moving each ingredient. Each component contributes to the overall PCF, which collectively forms the bulk of the company’s Scope 3 emissions.

Without standardised methodologies, collecting reliable product-level data from all these suppliers is almost impossible. This is where PACT comes in.

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The Partnership for Carbon Transparency: A global standard for carbon transparency

The Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) is a globally recognised framework designed to make product-level carbon footprinting consistent, accurate, and shareable across value chains.

Trusted by the world’s leading brands, PACT provides:

• A streamlined methodology for calculating product carbon footprints (PCFs) that aligns with existing guidelines and standards.

• An open infrastructure for exchanging verified emissions data across suppliers, partners, and platforms, regardless of the technology used.

• Granular, comparable data that enables businesses to measure, track, and reduce their Scope 3 emissions effectively.

By harmonising product carbon accounting and making data exchange seamless, PACT empowers companies of all sizes to collaborate transparently and accelerate decarbonisation across global supply chains.

What this milestone means for your business

Achieving PACT Conformance means Evalue8 can offer businesses a powerful tool to:

• Access accurate, granular Scope 3 emissions data

• Exchange information seamlessly across supply chains

• Build credible decarbonisation strategies grounded in primary data

• Stay ahead of compliance and global climate reporting requirements

This achievement sets a new standard for emissions transparency in Australia. We’re proud to help businesses overcome one of the toughest barriers to net zero, supply chain visibility, and lead the way towards credible, collaborative decarbonisation.

How Evalue8 helps you take control of your sustainability journey

Leveraging a powerful reporting tool enables businesses to streamline sustainability reporting, align with global standards like GHG Protocol and SBTi, and support verified carbon offset projects for long-term impact. With data-driven insights and forecasting, businesses can effectively meet sustainability goals, reduce emissions, and strengthen their leadership in climate action.

Evalue8 Sustainability Pty Ltd (Evalue8) is a specialist software company that provides a sustainability platform for organisations to effortlessly navigate the complexities of environmental accountability and accelerate their sustainability journey with automated carbon accounting.

Our software helps small and medium organisations track their emissions over time and generate clear reporting so stakeholders can easily understand your organisation’s sustainability performance, fostering trust and credibility.

We help organisations develop an emissions reduction plan that identifies opportunities for potential savings, operational efficiency and continuous improvement.

If you’re looking for software to help you measure, report and reduce your emissions with the guidance of carbon experts, schedule a demo with us today.

Conclusion

Evalue8’s PACT Conformance is an important step forward for Australian businesses. In simple terms, it means there is now a clear and consistent way to measure the carbon footprint of products and services, not just inside a company, but across its entire supply chain.

This is crucial since most emissions don’t come from offices or factories, but from suppliers, materials, and transport. By making this information accurate and shareable, businesses can finally see where their biggest impacts are, work with their partners to reduce them, and meet growing expectations from customers and regulators.

The first step to reducing emissions is understanding them. With PACT, businesses of all sizes can now do this in a straightforward and reliable way.