Carbon accounting made for food & beverage

Food and beverage companies face some of the most complex scope 3 emissions challenges, from ingredient-level granularity to dynamic recipes and evolving supplier landscapes. Normative helps you account for your full carbon footprint, with the precision and transparency needed to meet today’s climate disclosure and reduction expectations.

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Tailored for food industry realities

Food and beverage businesses operate in one of the most emissions-intensive and data-complex sectors, where traditional carbon accounting tools often fall short.

On average, food and beverage companies’ scope 3 emissions are 23 times greater than those in scopes 1 and 2, including those from purchased ingredients, agricultural inputs, and packaging. This dominance of scope 3 means businesses need more than generic emission factors or spend-based estimates, they need ingredient-level accuracy and end-to-end visibility.

Normative’s solution is purpose-built to address this complexity:

Frequent recipe changes and evolving supplier relationships
A need to differentiate between production methods (e.g. organic vs. conventional)
Requirements to align with the Science Based Targets initiative (FLAG), CSRD and CDP

Decarbonizing the menu: The Restaurant Group’s sustainability journey with Normative

The Restaurant Group (TRG), a major player in the UK hospitality sector, uses Normative to gain actionable insights into its carbon footprint. Learn how TRG is transforming its business by collaborating with key suppliers to reduce emissions and making strategic menu adjustments, with the target of reaching net zero.

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“I helped a food business engage with its agriculture suppliers, gathering primary emissions data to refine its scope 3 calculations. With this data, I worked with the business to model carbon reduction initiatives – for example, measuring the impact of switching from dairy to oat milk. This let the business set a net-zero target with confidence.”

Johnny McCreesh, Climate Strategy Team Leader at Normative

What you get with Normative

Our approach gives food and beverage companies the granularity to meet today’s disclosure requirements, and the confidence to act on their emissions data.

Integrated product and corporate carbon accounting

Access food-specific, science-based emission factors directly in Normative, linked to your corporate-level inventory and fully aligned with the GHG Protocol.
Transparent, audit-ready reporting

All emission factors are fully traceable and peer-reviewed, ensuring audit-grade integrity across your food categories.
Actionable visibility

Identify carbon hotspots from raw materials to packaged products to guide reformulation, supplier shifts, or low-impact alternatives.

Insights

Solve a key food and beverage carbon accounting blindspot

Check out this insights post on Normative’s automated FLAG emissions solution to get the inside track on:

Why it’s so critical businesses in the sector can isolate land-related emissions
How Normative’s solution can solve this challenge
Why this will help businesses comply with the Science Based Targets initiative for Forest, Land and Agriculture and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance
How this unique solution fills a critical compliance gap that has previously not been addressed by the industry

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Bring ingredient-level data into your carbon accounting

We’re making it easier to get to real supplier data. Normative’s platform is designed to give food and beverage businesses flexible ways to access supplier-specific emissions data, so they can deliver the accurate, fully transparent calculations that are so important in an industry where upstream scope 3 emissions are such a big part of a business’ carbon footprint. Here’s how:

Carbon Network: search and use supplier data shared by others, or curated by Normative
Supplier Surveys: collect data directly within your supply chain through structured engagement workflows
Direct Data Uploads: import supplier data from trusted sources
Partner Integrations: connect data from partner platforms like EcoVadis
Normative Professional Services: research and deliver emissions data for your key suppliers

Webinar

From ingredient to inventory: solving carbon data gaps in food & beverage

Join experts from Normative and leading food and beverage brand, Jordanes Group in our webinar to uncover how to:

Prioritize ingredient and supplier data without overcomplicating your approach
Meet SBTi-FLAG requirements with confidence
Navigate practical tradeoffs between precision, feasibility, and regulatory alignment

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Partnerships

Normative partners with Klimato and HowGood to launch the Vertical Carbon Data Module

Normative has partnered with Klimato and HowGood to launch its new Vertical Carbon Data Module, bringing category-specific, ingredient- and farm-level emissions data into a unified, audit-grade carbon accounting workflow.