What's in it for you?

Benefits of being active with PCF 

Reporting product-level emissions creates value—for your business, your customers, and the climate. It helps you meet growing buyer and regulatory expectations, reduce risks, and identify areas for improvement in your value chain. With transparent climate data, you can strengthen customer trust, stand out in tenders, and future-proof your business. Consumers are increasingly asking for this information—and we want to share it with them. By working together, we can make informed, sustainable choices and drive progress across the entire industry. 

Reporting will be possible from April 2026 

Our ambition is to reopen the system for data collection at the turn of March/April 2026. 

Climate data as a factor in assortment ranking 

We intend to introduce climate data as a factor in the ranking. We plan to present how this will work, to our direct suppliers,  in autumn 2026. The goal is for climate data to be used as one of several factors in Systembolaget’s ranking model. Before climate data is used in the ranking model, all suppliers will be given the opportunity to supplement and verify their data. 

Product Carbon Footprint a part of our customer guidance 

We are also planning to update our customer guidance to include the product’s climate footprint. When this can happen depends on when the process for ensuring data quality is automated and implemented. Well in advance, we will inform about the date and give all actors the opportunity to choose whether the reported value should be used, and to supplement the reported. 

Introduction

In this section, we will examine the data sets commonly expected by cultivators. Using a step-by-step approach, we will identify key data sources and illustrate practical methods for managing allocation and data conversion to ensure compatibility with the CarbonCloud platform. These steps aim to simplify and streamline PCF (Product Carbon Footprint) calculations.

STEP ONE Understand the Data sets anticipated by the cultivator

In the table below you have an overview of the datasets anticipated by your role.

Datasets*	Data fields	Description
GENERAL	- Type of product - Country of production* - Your processing/storage country* - Ship-to country - Pick-up country	Name of product: The name of your product as you want it displayed in the CarbonCloud Platform. *Country of production - Where the last substantial transformation of the final product took place. Bottling, Labeling, Packaging is not considered as such. *Processing and storage Country - Where your organization processes, handles, or interacts with the product in any way. Leave blank if not applicable.
PACKAGING	- Packaging type - Weight of packaging material - Country of purchase	By default, the PCF from packaging is calculated based on country of production. Add specific information about the packaging material used for this product. That will replace the default estimations. You can add as many materials as needed.
TRANSPORT	- From - To - Mode of transport - Fuel type - Distance - Refrigerated – Yes/No	By default, the PCF from transport is calculated based on country of production and ship-to country. Add the specific transportation routes for this product. That will replace the default estimations. If you have multiple ship-to countries, provide primary data for each individually
FARM ACTIVITIES	- Type of agricultural produce - Country of cultivation - Yield/year for the 3 recent years Energy usage - Diesel usage for machinery - Diesel usage for irrigation - Electric usage for irrigation Fertilizer - Mineral nitrogen - Organic nitrogen - Potassium - Phosphorus or - Type of fertilizer - Amount Pesticides - Pesticides or - Name - Type of pesticide - Amount - Active substance ph modifiers - Limestone - Dolomite Carbon removals* Net carbon stock	To report carbon removals from land management, please consult the CarbonCloud platform or the GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance (2022) for full details. Fertilizers: Enter total nutrient values manually or add specific substances for system calculated totals. Examples on how to allocate fertilizer use please have a look at the next section.

Table 1: Overview of all datasets anticipated from cultivators. *Datasets are organized by the tabs in the CarbonCloud platform.

Most of this data should be familiar to the cultivator, however allocating the different datasets to a specific product might be more unfamiliar. The next section and step will explore and explain this further.

Add scope Modell

STEP 2 PCF Training and webinars

Information about the training that will be provided online.

Link to resources and training

STEP 3 Examine possible Data sources

Add possible data sources – get help from a cultvator

STEP 4 Prepare your data

The CarbonCloud platform is a general platform available for many different products, not only for the beverage industry. This is the reason why some data needs to be converted and some terms needs further explanation.

Help needed from Lantmannen and/or other cultivator. What terms are not familiar with the cultivator? How does raw data look like for a cultivator.

Step 5 Calculation examples

In the following section we will give some examples on how to allocate – these examples are built by cooperations with cultivators in Systembolagets supply chain.

Allocation principles

Introduction: Allocation Principles

Allocation is the process of distributing environmental impacts among products or co-products from a shared process (e.g., cultivation, sourcing, manufacturing, packaging, transport).

Common allocation methods include:

• Mass-based – impacts divided by product weight.
• Energy-based – based on energy content.
• Economic – based on market value.

ISO standards* classify allocation as physical (mass or energy) or economic, and the chosen method should reflect actual physical relationships or economic drivers. Physical/mass-based allocation is the preferred allocation method.

In the following section, we will provide practical examples to illustrate how physical and mass-based allocation method is applied in different contexts relevant for your role in the PCF calculations.

Allocation examples

In Table 1 you have an overview of all datasets anticipated by your role. In both Packaging, Transportation and Farm activities there will be a need to use allocation.

Lets start with some examples from Farm Activities.

Allocation examples

• Fertilizers
• Pesticides
• PH modifiers
• Do cultivators know about Carbon removals?
• Diesel usage for machinery, irrigation and electric usage. (how can this be done?)

Fertilizers used kg/ha/yr

This dataset would like to know how much fertilizer you have used pr hectar on an annual basis. Data should be added to Farm Activities on the Carbon Cloud platform.

To be able to calculate this you need to know the amount of:

• The amount of hectar you have used to produce the barley (for the product sold to the Inviter of CarbonCloud)
• The amount of fertilizers (kg) used on this hectar annually

 

The allocation can be done in the following way.

https://systembolaget.sharepoint.com/:w:/s/FrstudieKlimatdata/IQDoTpvXIpsmRKPHGRihy5GFAUVB2V0yzH1wCGzcmyQGCAU?e=OOMquJ

 

FYI (the general use of Nitrogen (N) for barley production is 130 kg N/ha (source Yara))

Could we link to a template excel sheet that cultivators can download and just add their data and get kg/ha/yr)? Chatgdp can produce this for us.

Example (made by chatgdp)

STEP x Add data to the platform

 

STEP x Understanding your PCF results

References

*Allocation – CarbonCloud methodology as well as ISO 14067 and GHG protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard