Mondra unveils tool to assist retailers and food businesses with Scope 3 measurement

Mondra has announced the launch of Base Year Recalculation, a tool developed to assist retailers and food businesses with measuring and validating carbon footprint reductions.

The product intelligence platform, which was developed in coalition with the British Retail Consortium, launched the tool amidst growing pressure on firms to measure and report Scope 3 emission reductions, and the challenges involved in doing so.

‘The reason is simple: proving progress is hard,’ Mondra noted. ‘Reported results are often obscured by changes in methodology, data updates, or sales volumes, rather than reflecting genuine improvements in products or supply chains.’

Base Year Recalculation

Mondra’a Base Year Recalculation seeks to address this issue by enabling companies to track year-on-year Scope 3 reductions in line with science-based targets, separating emissions changes caused by real product or supply chain updates from those driven by data or methodological adjustments.

Operating at a product level, it tracks changes across individual SKUs, recalculating baselines when non-operational changes affect comparability.

‘Consistent reference point’

“Progress stalls when leaders don’t trust the numbers,” commented Jason Barrett, CEO of Mondra. “Base Year Recalculation gives teams a consistent reference point, so reformulation, sourcing, and supplier decisions translate into credible reductions they can stand behind.”

According to Mondra, the tool provides additional clarity across products, categories and full assortments, providing retail and food industry leaders with a ‘simple view of what changed, and why’.

“The goal was to close a gap that slows progress for the sector,” added Olivia Gasson, product manager at Mondra. “Sustainability leaders need confidence in the numbers before they report reductions. Base Year Recalculation from Mondra gives brands the confidence to progress at pace in a method that is consistent, transparent and aligned with best practice.” Read more here.