Latis by HowGood

Core Features

Latis calculates emissions with an attributional, life-cycle approach aligned to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Product Standard and ISO 14067. Methodology documentation details how customer activity data map to impact data across stages (formulation, manufacturing, transport, packaging), and how Scope 3 roll-ups draw from the same product life-cycle model. The underlying emissions database aggregates hundreds of peer-reviewed and industry sources for food-grade granularity. Some of its main features are:

• Product footprinting at scale: Generate audit-ready Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) with a Carbon Trust–verified model, aligned to GHG Protocol and ISO 14067.

• Corporate carbon accounting: Manage Scopes 1–3 in one workspace and export GHG Protocol-compliant reports with transparent methods and sources.

• Supplier & ingredient insights: Trace impacts to ingredients/suppliers with an extensive food database and in-app guidance for sourcing changes.

• Scenario planning & abatement: Model reduction levers during product design and procurement; prioritize actions with AI-assisted tools.

• Regulatory & claims support: Produce audit-ready outputs for disclosures (e.g., CSRD contexts) and climate labeling use cases.

• FLAG & land-sector coverage: Methods and dashboards for FLAG emissions to support SBTi FLAG target-setting and tracking.

Closing Insights

What sets Latis apart is depth and auditability: a Carbon Trust–verified footprinting model, life-cycle methods aligned to GHG Protocol/ISO, and a food-specific database HowGood describes as the largest of its kind—plus adoption by six of the ten largest food companies. According to the company, Latis relies on over 600 verified data sources to gauge the environmental (and social) impact of over 33,000 ingredients.

Use cases illustrate versatility. Ingredion employs Latis to automate customer and prospect product modeling, demonstrating how ingredient choices change PCFs and other metrics—useful for B2B sales and co-development. In foodservice, Chartwells uses Latis for climate labeling and to align culinary, reporting, and reduction teams; the program drove higher demand for lower-impact recipes and brought disparate workflows into one system.

Following a major enhancement of the Latis Platform in 2024 with an end-to-end carbon-accounting solution that extends product footprinting to full corporate inventories, HowGood in September 2025 launched the Global Carbon Database, a plug-and-play, audit-ready EF library adopted by partner platforms to standardize food-sector carbon data.

For organizations seeking credible Scope 3 visibility with practical levers for design, sourcing, and supplier engagement, Latis offers a standards-aligned path from baselining to reduction—integrating product LCAs and corporate accounting so teams can act on the same data across R&D, procurement, and reporting.