Full Title: Pathfinder Framework: Guidance for the Accounting and Exchange of Product Life Cycle Emissions Version 2.0
Author(s): Partnership for Carbon Transparency
Publisher(s): World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Date: January 26, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
Achieving net-zero requires the transformation towards low-carbon products and services in all value chains. However, today’s complex value chains provide little visibility or control over products’ emissions, resulting in inaccurate emissions accounting which hinders effective decarbonization measures. The Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT)’s Pathfinder Framework is resolving this challenge by taking a cross-sectoral approach to help organizations develop and exchange primary data-based product carbon footprints (PCFs). The requirements captured in it seek to further enhance data reliability and consistency across industries and value chains.
Originally launched at COP26 in Glasgow, the Pathfinder Framework version 2.0 can be now downloaded. You will find six chapters focusing on:
- 1. An introduction to the challenge, the solution and the opportunity.
- 2. An overview of the general setup of the Framework
- 3. Emissions accounting.
- 4. Creating integrity.
- 5. Assurance and verification.
- 6. Data exchange.