What is the Carbon Action Manager?

The Carbon Action Manager (CAM) is a comprehensive GHG management solution that helps you engage your trading partners, collect reliable primary emissions data, and drive emissions reductions across your supply chain.

CAM is a collaborative platform that lets you and your partners make progress on decarbonization at the same time. Carbon questions are part of the EcoVadis assessment, so partners already assessed by EcoVadis aren't asked to complete a separate carbon questionnaire. Partners who don't have a full EcoVadis assessment can be invited to a standalone carbon assessment, if they qualify.

Carbon Action Manager highlights

  • Prioritize: Map carbon hotspots, set priorities, and focus engagement where it will have the most impact.
  • Collect: Gather supplier-specific Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data through the Carbon Data Network, with a reliability level on every data point, so you can move beyond spend-based estimates and industry averages.
  • Build capability and track progress: Your trading partners can use carbon scorecards, corrective action plans, e-learning, and calculators to build capability and keep improving, while you track progress at each phase.
  • Benefit from the network: Partners report their data once and share it with every customer who requests it. That means less work for them, faster responses for you, and more buyers pushing in the same direction.

What benefits do I gain from the Carbon Action Manager?

  • Carbon Risk: Identify carbon hotspots across your network without contacting partners. The heatmap draws on EcoVadis emissions data, public databases, and, optionally, your own spend and criticality data, so you can prioritize high-risk partners for engagement.
  • Carbon Scorecard: See how each partner manages carbon. Every EcoVadis Sustainability Rating and standalone Carbon Rating produces a carbon scorecard, and CAM unlocks your access to it. It shows each partner's carbon maturity level, strengths, and improvement areas.
  • Carbon Data Network and Data Reliability Levels: Request that partners report and share Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions metrics, and product carbon footprint (PCF) data where they have it. Every metric receives a Data Reliability Level of Low, Medium, High, or Third-Party Verified. Verified and High data is suited to GHG accounting and disclosure. Medium and Low data shows where to focus follow-up.
  • Corrective Action Plans: Drive decarbonization by requesting carbon-specific corrective actions and track partner progress.
  • E-learning: Access the carbon-specific courses in EcoVadis Academy to upskill your team, and invite your partners to do the same.
  • Reporting and KPIs: Track progress using dashboards with 35+ KPIs and metrics. You can assess trends across your supply chain and drill down to partner level, view improvement trends, and follow monthly-updated Science-Based Targets partner tracking.
  • API access: Bring partners' carbon ratings and emissions metrics, with their Data Reliability Levels, into your own sourcing, ERP, or carbon accounting workflows using EcoVadis API 3.0. Contact your EcoVadis representative to learn more.

What benefits do my trading partners gain?

  • A carbon scorecard with their maturity level, strengths, and improvement areas
  • The EcoVadis platform for collaborating with you on identified improvement areas, including corrective action plans
  • Carbon Estimator to calculate baseline Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, even without detailed data
  • Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Calculator, a guided tool for product-level footprints
  • The ability to report and share carbon metrics and product-level data once, and make it available to multiple customers
  • Data-specific recommendations to improve the reliability of their data, plus the ability to update metrics and upload supporting documents between assessments
  • A wide range of e-learning courses
  • GHG Metrics Benchmarks to compare their own carbon data with peers

Sharing knowledge, practices, and emissions data at scale is what makes supply chain decarbonization possible. Carbon Action Manager gives you the tools to reach your partners quickly, trust the data they share, and get the most out of the EcoVadis assessment.

What Carbon Action Manager is not

CAM is not a carbon accounting tool or a footprint calculator for your own company. It supplies the primary, supplier-specific data that carbon accounting relies on. You can use that data in your own Scope 3 calculations, in a carbon accounting tool, or in your internal systems.