Worldly and The Change Climate Project (Change Climate) each offer tools to help consumer goods brands measure and manage their carbon emissions. Wherever you are on your carbon measurement journey, Worldly and Change Climate’s tools support best practices for carbon measurement and management and may be used together in a complementary manner.
This document formalizes guidance on how brands may best use the Business Emissions Evaluator (BEE) tool and the Worldly platform together to support a carbon measurement and management program, including:
- What is Change Climate, and how does the BEE support carbon measurement and management?
- What is Worldly, and how does the platform’s suite of tools support carbon measurement and management?
- Using the BEE and Worldly together to power corporate carbon measurement and management
- Step-by-step joint user guidance on how to transfer data between platforms
What is Change Climate?
Change Climate, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, leads a global movement of individuals and
companies to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by sparking high impact climate initiatives within companies. Change Climate offers accessible, action-focused tools and resources, along with the world's most recognized and trusted consumer-facing climate label, Climate Neutral Certified. The label empowers consumers to find brands that are leading on immediate climate action. All companies that get certified must reduce and compensate for all of their emissions from making and delivering products and services. Change Climate works with over 400 companies and the Climate Neutral Certified label can be found on millions of products worldwide.
How Change Climate supports carbon measurement and management
Change Climate focuses on helping brands measure and understand their cradle-to-customer emissions and build an actionable climate transition plan through its Business Emissions Evaluator (BEE) tool.
Business Emissions Evaluator (BEE): Change Climate’s BEE tool helps brands measure their cradle-to-customer emissions: Scope 1 and 2, Scope 3 Category 1–7, and 9. The BEE is best leveraged by brands seeking category-specific carbon footprint estimates, and by brands leveraging the BEE within a complementary ecosystem of tools that go deeper on Scope 3 impact modeling and management.
- 快速估算企业碳足迹。 对于刚开始可持续发展之旅的品牌，BEE 可以基于财务数据快速估算范围一至范围三排放 - 完全免费。
- 严格的从摇篮到客户的碳清单。 对于寻求提高其初始范围一、范围二和范围三排放估计准确性的品牌，BEE使用户能够添加来自其自身运营和价值链的主要数据，以纠正和"完善"估算模型。BEE中提供了基于货币和活动的排放因子库。寻求更具价值链特定测量的品牌可以用主要数据和补充产品影响建模工具来补充这些数据。随着品牌随着时间的推移深化其数据质量，BEE中的这种完善过程是持续和迭代的。
- 快速、可操作的可视化：用户输入到BEE中的数据被转换为可视化图表，帮助品牌了解其最大的排放驱动因素、同比趋势以及最大的减排机会。
What is Worldly?
Worldly is the planet’s most comprehensive impact intelligence platform, trusted by 40,000+ major brands, retailers, and manufacturers in fashion, outdoor, home goods, toys, and more. Worldly collects high-resolution primary data specific to companies’ value chains, operations, and products, providing insight into impacts across carbon, water, chemistry, and labor. The Worldly platform is the home of several leading sustainability measurement tools, including the Higg Index suite of tools developed by Cascale. The Higg Index is the most widely-used standardized measurement framework within the apparel, footwear, and textile industry, among others. In addition, Worldly has developed a set of proprietary tools and platform features including an under-development Scope 3 carbon accounting capability that will empower brands and retailers to easily refine carbon emissions estimates and use primary data to identify opportunities for impact reduction.
How Worldly supports carbon measurement and management
Worldly offers impact intelligence and insights solutions for a range of ESG impacts, but is particularly well-equipped to support Scope 3 carbon accounting and management efforts.
Higg Product Tools – Higg Material Sustainability Index (MSI) and Higg Product Module (PM): The Higg Product Tools are the industry’s most in-depth, expert-informed toolset for modeling the environmental impact of products. Higg MSI enables brands to quantify the cradle-to-gate (Tier 2–4) carbon emissions of their materials. These materials may be built from a library of 99 example materials and more than 200 raw materials, and are customizable down to the process-level (e.g., specifying the dyeing or spinning process). Higg PM is the cradle-to-grave complement of the MSI, modeling product impacts from finished goods and processes (Tier 1) all the way through end-of-use (Scope 3 Category 1, 4, 9, 11, 12).
- 赋能从基于支出的碳核算向基于活动的碳核算方法转变。基于活动的方法本质上更加准确，使您能够根据供应链的变化而非单位成本来衡量影响减少。
- 开发更准确和更具代表性的产品级排放因子。 完整的产品特定LCA成本高、速度慢且不可扩展，但通用材料/产品排放因子无法体现您特定价值链的细微差别。产品工具为寻求更准确产品级影响的品牌和零售商提供了一个实用的折中方案。
- 识别产品、材料和工艺层面的排放热点，为行动提供信息并确定优先级。 Higg产品工具由工艺层面的LCA数据提供支持，可以帮助品牌精确定位推动碳减排的最大杠杆。
- 将气候数据纳入产品设计过程。在我们的行业中，约80%的产品影响在产品设计阶段就已确定，因此产品设计师拥有将可持续性纳入决策的工具至关重要。Higg产品工具与多个领先的PLM系统集成，旨在帮助产品设计师在产品设计和开发的早期阶段评估功能等效材料的可持续性影响。
Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM): The Higg FEM collects quantitative and qualitative primary data on facility-level environmental performance. The Worldly platform supports the sharing of FEM data between value chain partners, surfacing insights on critical climate metrics such as production volume, normalized greenhouse gas emissions, coal use, renewable energy deployment, and energy target-setting.
- 为范围三第一类实施温室气体（GHG）协议的"混合"方法。1 用直接从价值链收集的主要数据替换活动基础排放因子中的过程影响估计。除了更高的准确性外，混合方法还使品牌能够在其整体碳足迹中获得"信用"，当其价值链合作伙伴减少排放时。
- 识别热点问题，采取行动，监控进展。 Higg FEM可用于识别那些未能逐年减少标准化排放的工厂。由于该工具收集的数据量庞大，它还可以明确指出在这些工厂减少排放的可行步骤，例如为特定能源设置基线和目标。
Using the BEE and Worldly Together to Power Corporate Carbon Measurement and Management
- 从BEE快速估算开始：对于处于气候测量初期阶段的品牌来说，BEE提供了一个极佳的起点，免费提供企业碳排放总量估算。品牌只需提供运营成本、工厂清单和一些高级产品信息，BEE就会应用基于支出的方法来估算从摇篮到客户的碳足迹。这种初步的快速估算帮助品牌快速了解其排放可能最高的领域，通常会突显出需要更高粒度的范围三排放数据，因为它通常占价值链排放的80%以上。品牌随后可以利用这些初步见解，收集这些领域更详细的一手数据，从而实现更精确的核算和长期跟踪。
- 在BEE中完善您的排放清单：在提供初步的基于支出的估算后，BEE会提示用户通过在每个范围和类别中添加更详细的、品牌特定的数据来完善他们的估算。对品牌来说，最重要的是专注于提高影响最大的领域的数据质量，这通常是范围三类别1购买的商品和服务。随着品牌寻求提高其碳足迹估算的准确性并计入实现气候目标的减排量，他们需要随着时间的推移持续在BEE中添加更多基于活动和一手数据。Worldly平台是收集这些更详细的范围三类别1数据点的最佳来源，这些数据点将用于BEE的完善过程。
- 将 Worldly 数据添加到 BEE：Worldly 平台的用户可以从 Higg FEM 和 Higg 产品工具中收集和计算详细的范围三排放数据，然后在完善过程中将数据添加到 BEE 工作簿中，以提高 BEE 估计的准确性并实现排放减少的核算。这些 Worldly 工具中有几个特定的数据点可以添加；这在附录中有详细描述。
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跟踪和测量减排：Worldly平台的主要优势之一是它使用户能够核算减排努力的影响。
- The Higg Product Tools, which may be used to calculate product carbon emissions, empower users to customize calculation inputs at a high level of granularity. For example, users may customize bill of material fibers down to the process-level or specify product care instructions. These robust modeling capabilities don’t just enhance accuracy – they also effectively increase the number of levers brands have to measurably reduce emissions.
- Higg FEM captures the primary data necessary to calculate facility-level emissions for a brand’s Scope 3 impact. This primary data allows brands to account for improvements in facility-level energy mix (i.e. phasing out coal or deploying on-site renewable energy) or reductions in energy consumption. Because more than 80% of consumer good brand emissions often come from Scope 3 Purchased goods and services, being able to measure emissions reductions from the upstream value chain is critical for brands with decarbonization targets.
- Worldly is currently developing a new Scope 3 measurement tool, set to release in 2024. Aligned with the GHG Protocol, the tool will enable users to build Scope 3 inventories from built-in product and materials libraries as well as user-specific data from the Higg MSI, PM, and FEM. This approach is designed to support brands at all stages of sustainability journey, offering ease, speed, and flexibility without sacrificing quality and accuracy. The new Worldly tool will be compatible with the BEE Tool and will streamline the refinement process with high-resolution data from Worldly.
- Reporting emissions measured in Worldly tools via the BEE allows joint users to track their total emissions all in one place and incorporate the most precise and accurate measurement data for their products. The BEE offers helpful data visualizations and emissions tracking tools which provide joint users with a holistic view of their annual carbon inventory and help to identify emissions hotspots. This data enables informed emissions reduction planning, and year-over-year emissions comparisons in the BEE help users track progress on their reduction goals.
Appendix: Step-By-Step Joint User Guidance
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Set up
- Using the “Chat” feature within the BEE, let the Change Climate team know that you would like to enter data from the Higg Product Module.
- For certifying brands, the Change Climate team will request a copy of your product export Excel file from the Higg PM. This export includes all the information input into the PM and the outputs. The export button can be found as shown below.
- 变革气候团队将开启一项功能，允许您将产品数据输入到BEE工作簿中。BEE工作簿中有两个主要标签页，用户可以在其中添加Worldly数据：范围3.1物料清单和范围3.1能源。
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Scope 3.1 BoMs
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- In the BEE workbook, navigate to the Scope 3.1 BoMs tab. List the products for which you measured emissions in the Higg PM here:
- Ensure you have listed the quantity manufactured in the footprinting year
- In the Physical material match column, select “Custom CO2 Entry.”
- 在"每产品购买总量"列中，输入来自Higg PM的每产品二氧化碳当量排放量。
- Note: Because Higg PM is a cradle-to-grave tool and this section of the BEE is only measuring Scope 3 Category 1, users should only input the emissions from Bill of Materials, Finished Goods and Processes, and Packaging. The red square below represents the data that should be summed and then inputted into the BEE as a custom entry.
- When you finish in the BEE workbook, it should look something like this:
- Note: Because Higg PM is a cradle-to-grave tool and this section of the BEE is only measuring Scope 3 Category 1, users should only input the emissions from Bill of Materials, Finished Goods and Processes, and Packaging. The red square below represents the data that should be summed and then inputted into the BEE as a custom entry.
- In the BEE workbook, navigate to the Scope 3.1 BoMs tab. List the products for which you measured emissions in the Higg PM here:
Required columns to complete are:
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- 工厂
- 产品
- Source Region
- Material Match (Physical)
- Total purchased per product (Physical)
- 单位和跨销售单位的总购买量列将自动填充
- Return to the BEE (web app) and sync your inputs. You’ll be able to see your product-level data from the Higg PM alongside the rest of your carbon inventory.
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3. Scope 3.1 Energy
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- Assuming you have already listed the factories from which you source, your Scope 3.1 Energy tab in the workbook will look something like this after completing an estimate.
- 对于在 Worldly 平台上与您共享完整 Higg FEM 的一级工厂，品牌可以将这些工厂在 FEM 中收集的按来源划分的定量能源消耗数据作为实际数据输入到 BEE 工作簿中。工厂能源消耗信息在 Higg FEM 的能源部分中捕获；下面是这些数据在 FEM 中的显示示例。虽然您不需要下载此数据的报告，但您可能希望保存截图以作为记录，显示这些数据的来源。
- Note: Brands should anonymize facility names coming from the Higg FEM when adding facility energy data to the BEE Workbook.
- Note: Brands should anonymize facility names coming from the Higg FEM when adding facility energy data to the BEE Workbook.
- 当您在 BEE 工作簿中完成时，它应该看起来像这样：
- 对于每个工厂，需要完成的列有：
- 工厂
- Region
- 货币或实物列
- Unit and Currency columns will auto-populate
- 对于每个工厂，需要完成的列有：
- Return to the BEE (web app) and sync your inputs. You’ll be able to see your facility-level data from the Higg FEM alongside the rest of your carbon inventory.
- Assuming you have already listed the factories from which you source, your Scope 3.1 Energy tab in the workbook will look something like this after completing an estimate.
[1] 详情请参阅 https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards/Scope3_Calculation_Guidance_0.pdf