Eco Oracle
The EcoOracle helps companies to verify the CO2 footprint of their purchases to fight greenwashing.
Challenge
Verifying Product Carbon Footprints
The SINE Foundation's challenge centers on using AI to verify product carbon footprints and improve data quality for sustainability initiatives, while managing complexities in carbon footprint calculations.
Team
Carl Frederic, Markus Ertl, Sarah Gruber, Jiachen Wang
About the prototype
The EcoOracle enables companies to check the CO2 footprint of their purchases for trustworthiness in order to combat greenwashing. A scoring system is used for this purpose. It calculates the sustainability score of a product taking all the steps of its production chain into account that have an influence on the carbon footprint of a product, for example the used materials and transportation routes. The prototype we developed uses a very simple calculation model that calculates the sum of the weighted production steps. However, the idea is to later replace this primitive calculation method with a neural network that will be able to calculate a more meaningful score based on real validated training data. Our concept is based on the production of a cotton T-shirt, but can be transferred to any other product. It starts with the cotton harvest and pre-processing and ends with the delivery to a store or the end user. If you would like to try out our tool for yourself, you can get your own impression at https://sustainability.demo-view.de.
Outputs
Further information about the progress, milestones, and roadblocks.
Demo of the tool.
Presentation of the prototype