Your EU buyers audit carbon like they audit quality now.
Retailers and brands across the EU are collecting emissions data from their food and beverage suppliers — questionnaire by questionnaire, tender by tender. The exporters who answer credibly keep the shelf space.
Three directions the pressure comes from
For food and beverage exporters in the Western Balkans, the requests come from the commercial side — and they compound.
Supplier questionnaires
EU retail chains and brands report value-chain emissions under CSRD and their own commitments. Their supplier platforms now collect emissions data annually — with scorecards attached.
Data as a listing condition
Private-label tenders and new listings increasingly ask for sustainability data upfront. No answer reads as a risk; a documented answer reads as a professional supplier.
Green-lending conditions
Cold chains, processing lines and facility upgrades are exactly what green credit lines fund — and a GHG baseline is increasingly the condition.
Your whole inventory, in one honest view
Consolidated footprint across facilities, scope breakdown to the GHG Protocol, monthly trends — and the gaps stated, not hidden.
Every figure can show its work
This is what your buyer's verifier gets from a Karbon360 inventory: each record stores its activity data, the exact factor and version applied, and a server-side recomputation. When something doesn't reconcile, the platform flags it — before the verifier finds it.
- Installation-level records — facility by facility, month by month.
- Boilers, steam and refrigeration energy tracked where food footprints actually live.
- Factors named and versioned, disclosed to the report recipient.
- Reconciliation checks that state discrepancies instead of smoothing them.
Written for reviewers: the methodology page.
What "good data" means in this sector
Food and beverage isn't a CBAM sector — the bar here is a credible company-level inventory, presented so a retailer's sustainability team can rely on it. What that means in practice:
The food & beverage exporter's data package
- A full-year Scope 1 and Scope 2 inventory — monthly records behind it.
- Fuel consumption by type — boilers, steam, generators, and the distribution fleet.
- Electricity for processing and refrigeration — calculated with your country's actual grid factor, not an EU average.
- A stated boundary — what's included, what isn't, and which figures are measured versus estimated.
- Factors and documentation — named, versioned sources, and a calculation a third party can re-trace.
The anatomy of supplier requests — and what happens to non-responders — is on our supply chain page.
Two ways to start
Depending on whether the request is already on your desk.
A retailer has already asked
Tell us which retailer or brand asked and what the questionnaire covers. We'll map exactly what you need to have in place — before the deadline.
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Get your estimateFrequently asked questions
No — CBAM covers metals, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity. For food and beverage exporters the pressure is commercial: retailers and brands collecting Scope 3 data from suppliers under CSRD and their own commitments.
Most commonly a company-level GHG inventory — Scope 1 and 2 with methodology — via questionnaire or supplier platform, with energy, refrigerants and transport as focus areas. Key product lines sometimes get product-level questions.
Rarely an immediate delisting — usually a quiet scorecard downgrade. Emissions data availability is entering supplier evaluations, and over time orders shift toward suppliers who can answer.
Typically purchased electricity for processing and refrigeration, fuel for boilers and steam, and the vehicle fleet. On this region's grids, electricity usually dominates — which is why the correct national grid factor matters so much.