COTO

A scheme the EU introduced to assess the environmental impact of a product objectively. It quantifies 16 environmental impact categories, such as climate change and resource depletion, across the product's entire life cycle (LCA) — raw material acquisition, production, distribution, use and disposal. COTO performs LCA based on the ISO 14040/14044 international standards and, by linking to the trusted Ecoinvent database, analyzes the environmental impact per functional unit of each product in detail.

A scheme that imposes a carbon cost, linked to the Emissions Trading System (ETS), on the carbon content of products imported into the EU; importers must report the direct and indirect carbon emissions of the products they import. COTO uses life cycle assessment (LCA) based data to generate the carbon emission reports required by this import/export regulation instantly, and minimizes the cost burden by establishing carbon reduction strategies through hotspot analysis by process.

A scheme that treats the whole company as a single boundary and accounts for all greenhouse gas emissions arising at the organisational level, requiring management of emissions across the value chain (Scope 1, 2 and 3). COTO operates a system that manages company-wide emission source data in one place, supporting both internal and external environmental reporting as well as managing the company's carbon neutrality targets and progress in a verifiable form.

Central to the EU's Circular Economy Action Plan, this scheme records a product's life cycle environmental information — sustainability, composition, origin and so on — as digital data and shares it with consumers and regulators. COTO turns a product's LCA data into digital information that meets the DPP requirements, and maximizes the product's circular economy value through transparent disclosure.