Prose's Climate Journey: Employee Involvement and Carbon Management Software
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Use Cases
- Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems
- Inventory Management
Services
- Training
About The Customer
Prose is a beauty brand that builds sustainable, ethical, and personalized cosmetic products. They have been tracking and reducing their direct and indirect emissions since 2018. Prose is a certified B Corporation and Public Benefit Corporation, with a commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. The company, headquartered in New York City, USA, has 214 employees. Prose's mission is to create personalized beauty products while minimizing their environmental impact, and they were looking for a solution to involve their employees in this mission and use data to develop low-carbon alternatives.
The Challenge
Prose, a sustainable beauty brand, was facing challenges in accurately measuring and managing their carbon emissions. Traditionally, companies like Prose have relied on consulting firms to measure their emissions. However, this approach often left them with a static image of their carbon footprint, updated only once a year, and a lack of understanding of how the footprint was calculated or how to take action on it. This approach was particularly limiting when trying to calculate the precise carbon footprint of each product, which required looking at emissions at every stage of a product’s life-cycle, from material sourcing to product disposal after consumer use. Prose wanted to involve employees working on various product stages and use the data to develop low-carbon alternatives.
The Solution
Prose adopted Sweep's carbon management software to take ownership of their climate journey and gain a dynamic and granular view of their carbon footprint and reduction efforts. This software allowed Prose to connect existing carbon data to newly-added information in a single platform, accessible to anyone in the company. It also enabled them to involve employees in the data collection and platform training, with the goal of achieving full autonomy over emission management after a year. Furthermore, the software allowed Prose to measure and identify how the footprint of each product contributes to its overall emissions, thereby helping them find low-carbon alternatives.
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