Substantiate your environmental claims and meet rising consumer and regulatory expectations

The food and beverage sector is at the center of global sustainability challenges, from climate change and water use to land use and biodiversity loss. Companies are under increasing pressure to improve transparency, reduce impacts, and future-proof their value chains.

PRé helps food and beverage companies understand the environmental impacts of their products and supply chains, so they can make informed decisions, reduce risks, and support the transition to more sustainable systems.

Industry challenges

Sustainability in food and beverage involves complex, interconnected systems. Common challenges include:

• The need to address multiple environmental impacts at once, moving beyond carbon to water, land use, biodiversity, and broader ecosystem health
• Increasing pressure for credible product claims and reporting, without always having the internal capacity or expertise to deliver LCAs at the pace and scale required
• Limited visibility into upstream agricultural impacts, making it hard to secure the supplier-specific data needed for credible footprinting
• High variability in data across regions, suppliers, and ingredients, which complicates efforts to track progress consistently over time
• The need to align with growing number of regulatory and voluntary requirements from CSRD and CSDDD to sector-specific standards

How we support food & beverage companies

PRé combines scientific expertise with practical tools tailored to the food and beverage sector.

We support you with:

• LCA delivery and autonomy
  LCAs can support a wide range of applications: substantiating external product claims, understanding corporate footprints, assessing portfolios, digging into ingredient-level impacts, and evaluating R&D scenarios. We can fully execute LCAs and portfolio modelling on your behalf, or help you build internal capability by designing your LCA framework and gradually transferring tools, knowledge, and ownership to your team. 

• Supplier-specific footprinting
  Most of your footprint sits upstream in farming and raw materials, and without supplier-specific data, Scope 3 reductions can’t be credibly tracked or achieved. We help you design a pragmatic approach, running pilots before scaling across ingredients and suppliers, and building hybrid data where primary data isn’t available. This approach works for both product- and corporate-level footprinting, and is built to enable consistent tracking year over year. Whether you want us to run it end-to-end or help you build lasting internal ownership. 
• Methodology and sustainability KPI framework development
  Food and beverage companies face a genuinely complex landscape. CSRD, CSDDD, sector-specific standards, and voluntary initiatives all need to come together. We help you align them into one coherent methodology rather than navigating each in isolation. We design sustainability KPI frameworks that avoid duplication and misalignment across these requirements, ensuring your KPIs are comparable, scalable, and able to track progress over time. Critically, we help you move beyond carbon alone to capture the water, biodiversity, land use, and broader ecosystem impacts that matter most for food and beverage supply chains.

Why PRé

• Over 35 years of experience in LCA
• Deep expertise in agriculture, food systems, and value chain impacts
• Experts in looking beyond carbon; vital for the food and beverage sector
• Trusted by global companies across the food and beverage sector
• Unique combination of consulting expertise and leading LCA software (SimaPro)
• Science-based and independent approach