This project has been recognised as a winner of the 2025 Responsible Care Awards.
Brenntag is accelerating emissions transparency throughout the chemical industry with a comprehensive CO₂e Management programme that combines certified methodologies, digital tools, supplier collaboration, customers engagements and global training. This approach makes product-level CO₂e data practical and usable for both customers and suppliers and is helping identify where they can reduce environmental impact, cut costs, and improve operational efficiency.
Why measure your carbon footprint?
By identifying energy-intensive processes and high-emission activities, companies can optimise resource use, enhance sustainability performance, and strengthen their brand with environmentally conscious consumers. Digital tools – like the CO2Xplorer tool suite – simplify this process, making product carbon footprint assessment accessible to all users. This is an initiative of Brenntag, that is accelerating emissions transparency with a CO₂e management programme, providing practical product-level data to help customers and suppliers reduce impact, cut costs, and improve efficiency.
Key features and benefits
- Comprehensive assessment: Full cradle-to-customer-gate coverage of more than 2,000 chemical products.
- Audit-ready data: Ensures reliability and quality for internal and external reporting and auditing.
- Intuitive interface: Easy to use, with visual and shareable results.
- Supports innovation: Suitable for mixtures, blends, and new product developments.
- Seamless integration: Aligns with existing corporate sustainability strategies.
The CO₂Xplorer suite was designed in-house by Brenntag to offer full visibility of emissions along the value chain. The tool was also recognised for its innovation, winning the ICIS Innovation Award 2024 in the category of Best Digital Innovation.
Accessible, practical, and scalable
Brenntag’s CO₂e management practices empower suppliers, customers, and internal teams with a clear understanding of CO₂e data and its applications. Built on a TÜV Rheinland Energy & Environment GmbH-certified methodology, the approach ensures reliable, comparable, and globally aligned emissions information.
The CO₂Xplorer suite further simplifies this information, turning complex CO₂e calculations into clear, shareable outputs that support Scope 3.1 reporting and help users track progress over time.
Strong collaboration with suppliers enables progress toward shared decarbonisation goals and supports a shift toward more sustainable product options, while ensuring that CO₂e data remains consistent across the value chain. To accelerate data availability and reduce manual work, Brenntag is also deploying AI-driven automation to extract and consolidate PCF information.
Customer support focuses on helping identify improvement opportunities, while internal training ensures teams can confidently use CO₂e data in their daily decisions.
Through this integrated, collaborative, and continuously improving approach, Brenntag ensures that CO₂e management is accessible, practical, and scalable for partners across the chemical industry.