ClimateChoice

Core Features

ClimateChoice’s approach centers on enabling procurement and climate teams to systematically engage suppliers, gather meaningful climate-data and drive decarbonization across the value chain. The platform emphasizes automation, transparency and scalability in supplier climate programmes. Some of its main features are:

• Supplier Data Acquisition & Enrichment: The system automatically ingests publicly available sources (e.g., CSR reports, websites, public databases) and lets suppliers fill in or validate structured inputs, reducing manual outreach while increasing data coverage.

• ClimateChoice Score & Benchmarking: Suppliers are scored on transparency, data quality, decarbonization progress and governance (via the “ClimateChoice Score”), enabling comparison across peers and identification of high-potential engagement targets.

• Audit-Ready Supplier Profiles: Each supplier profile includes evidence links, verification status and version tracking, supporting audit trails and regulatory or reporting requirements while giving procurement confidence in data integrity.

• Engagement Workflows: The platform provides task-tracking, supplier invitations, reminders and progress dashboards enabling procurement teams to systematically onboard, motivate and monitor suppliers through decarbonization-journeys.

• Hotspot & Progress Tracking: Users receive portfolio-wide views that highlight supply-chain high-impact emission categories (“hotspots”), track data completeness, supplier performance trends, and progress against targets over time.

• Interoperability & Reporting Integration: The platform is built to integrate with existing procurement, ERP or sustainability-reporting systems,

Closing Insights

ClimateChoice was founded in Berlin by Yasha Tarani and Lara Obst to make supplier emissions visible and actionable, combining AI-driven data acquisition with supplier engagement and scoring. Early on, the team convened the Climate Transformation Summit, which grew into a community around Scope 3 action and helped shape the platform’s emphasis on collaboration and comparability across large supplier bases. A 2023 pre-seed round of $2 million supported product development and expansion. What distinguishes ClimateChoice is its focus on auditable primary supplier data, collected from both public sources and suppliers themselves, then normalized into scored profiles procurement teams can actually use.

Notable users include Lenovo, whose “360 Circle” partner program leverages transparent data and collective action, and T-Systems, which reported achieving 100% supplier climate data transparency in six weeks through the platform. ClimateChoice has also earned recognition beyond Europe, winning the Green Startup Slam at Greentech Festival Los Angeles in 2024. Its learning arm includes the four-month Scope 3 Action Group, a cohort-based program with expert partners that accelerates supplier engagement and implementation. These elements speak to different carbon-accounting needs—from rapid data transparency at scale to ongoing capability building.

For organizations evaluating a supplier-climate platform, ClimateChoice offers interoperable, audit-ready supplier profiles and structured engagement workflows, complemented by community programs and events. Its data-exchange design supports integration into reporting and procurement processes, helping teams use comparable supplier metrics in decisions while building supplier capacity through the Scope 3 Action Group and related content.