inoqo’s Category Assessment is a comprehensive offer designed for grocery retailers to calculate the climate impact of both white-label and third-party products. It uses dynamic, regularly updated category-level representative values to provide accurate emissions data based on the actual product mix available in the market. This helps retailers report and make progress in a CSRD compliant way.

The free assessment allows retailers to quickly evaluate their climate impacts using inoqo’s category representative values without any initial investment. The assessment provides fast and accurate data to help retailers understand their sustainability performance and identify areas for improvement​.

Category assessments and product-specific assessments serve different purposes in understanding and improving the climate impact.

Category Assessments are ideal for broad overviews and initial benchmarks. They provide a cost-effective and quicker way to understand the climate impact across entire product categories. By starting with a category assessment, businesses can identify high-impact areas and general trends. This approach is useful for initial benchmarking, identifying sustainability trends, and setting broad improvement goals. It leverages representative values and secondary data, making it easier and faster to perform without requiring detailed primary data.

Product-Specific Assessments, on the other hand, offer detailed insights necessary for precise improvements. These assessments consider specific factors such as the origin of raw materials, production processes, and supply chain specifics. They use primary data from the product’s lifecycle, ensuring high accuracy and reflecting the actual environmental impacts. While more time-consuming and resource-intensive, product-specific assessments are crucial for advanced sustainability strategies and accurate reporting. They enable targeted improvements and provide actionable insights for each product.

In practice, it helps to start with a category assessment to gain a broad understanding of impacts. Based on the results, a category hotspot analysis can identify high-impact product categories that warrant a more granular, product-specific assessment. This stepwise approach ensures efficient use of resources while progressively enhancing the granularity and accuracy of sustainability assessments.

The data is refreshed to reflect the latest advancements in sustainability practices, including improvements in energy usage, deforestation reduction, and climate-friendly product composition. Regular updates help maintain current and precise assessments, which are crucial for accurate sustainability reporting.

Starting with the data you have today, such as your product name or category, you can use inoqo to get a broad understanding of your climate impacts and then progressively gather more detailed information for precise and actionable insights. This approach not only simplifies the initial steps but also enhances the accuracy and depth of your sustainability strategy over time.