Connecting Strategy and Detail in Climate Work

David Bryngelsson, CEO and Co-Founder, CarbonCloud

For many companies, climate action is about balancing two needs: having a clear overall view for reporting, monitoring, and compliance with increasing requirements, while at the same time having sufficiently detailed data to make business decisions that actually reduce emissions. When these two perspectives are handled separately, climate efforts risk becoming either overly general or fragmented.

Through the partnership between GoClimate and CarbonCloud, strategic oversight is connected with operational climate work. GoClimate provides companies with an automated and coherent overview of climate impact within their own operations (Scope 1 & 2) and across the value chain (Scope 3), while CarbonCloud contributes product-specific climate data showing where emissions actually occur – in raw materials, ingredients, recipes, and supplier tiers.

Together, the platforms create climate work that is both structured and actionable. In industries such as food, where a very large share of emissions often lies in procurement, this becomes particularly important. Without detailed and comparable data, climate strategy risks stopping at reporting. With product-specific climate data, climate considerations can instead be integrated directly into business decisions, just like price, quality, and availability.

A shared ecosystem that makes climate data usable

“Instead of companies sitting with Excel sheets, manual processes, and endless email threads, we create a coherent ecosystem where calculations are automated, and companies can focus on strategy and business. The partnership enables companies to work systematically with their reporting while gaining the insights required to achieve real emission reductions. It’s the bridge between knowing and doing,” says David Bryngelsson, CEO and Co-Founder of CarbonCloud.

By combining GoClimate’s automated climate calculations with CarbonCloud’s granular data, different parts of the organization gain the right type of decision support. Management and sustainability teams gain control of the overall picture, while procurement and product development teams can work more concretely on prioritizing actions where they make the greatest impact.

At the same time, demands for transparency are increasing rapidly, both from regulation and the market. Climate performance is becoming a basic requirement rather than something managed alongside core operations.

“In the future, climate data will not be a separate report, but an integrated part of every transaction across the entire value chain, from farm to retail shelf,” says David Bryngelsson.

With more precise and usable climate data, the way companies operate in practice also changes. Climate becomes something that can be continuously factored into everyday decisions, rather than something reviewed after the fact.

“We hope companies stop seeing climate work as a ‘side show’ and instead make it part of their core strategy. With the right data, a buyer can select a supplier based on carbon emissions, a product developer can redesign a recipe to halve its footprint, and a management team can set targets based on reality rather than assumptions,” says David Bryngelsson.

Together, GoClimate and CarbonCloud make climate data a tool for governance and improvement – not just for reporting.