Under the licence of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (“WBCSD“), the Czech BCSD arranged for the translation of one of the most important global GHG emission standards PACT Methodology – Methodology for Calculating and Exchanging Cradle-to-Gate Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs), version 3.0 (“PACT Methodology“) into Czech. At its core, it combines methodological guidance with technical interoperability via the guidance for product carbon footprint accounting and technical specifications that allow different digital solutions to exchange emissions data securely and in a standardized format. The PACT Methodology in Czech is availlable for downloading at this link.

The PACT Methodology developed by PACT (Partnership for Carbon Transparency) initaitive has been developed as practical framework for calculating and exchanging emission data on products (physical products and services) across value chains. Its main purpose is to help companies access more granular, comparable, and consistent product-level emissions data, especially to improve Scope 3 management and support better decarbonization decisions.  In practice, it helps companies obtain primary emissions data from suppliers, strengthen the credibility of climate reporting, and identify concrete opportunities to reduce emissions across the value chain. The PACT Methodology has already been tested through cross-company exchanges in more than 5 thousand cases and provides the foundation for the broader Pathfinder Network, an open system for standardized carbon data exchange.

The translation was made with the support of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic within the project “Optimization and unification of CO₂ emission calculation procedures (carbon footprint) for the purposes of comparing the efficiency of construction of transport structures” (CL03000169). Czech BCSD plans a special training on the PACT Methodology for its members within the newly established Czech BCSD Academy.