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Eco-Score Software for Textile and Fashion

Automatically calculate and export French Eco-Scores for your entire product catalogue

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Environmental Cost Calculations

Eco Score Software built for apparel, fashion, textile and footwear

Automated Eco-Score calculation for all products

Carbonfact imports all your data, generating Eco-Scores for all products in scope without manual work.

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Compare against category benchmark products

See how you stack up against benchmark products and decide whether to publish or improve first.

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Simulate and improve your Eco-Score

Simulate products with differing materials and processes – so you can see and improve your score before publishing.

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Push data directly to the French declaration portal

Submit your calculated Eco-Scores directly to the French portal without reformatting, re-uploading or other manual work.

Control the narrative before someone else does

If you don’t calculate the Environmental Cost yourself, wholesalers or marketplaces may publish your Eco-Score using worst-case default values – often resulting in unfairly low scores. Ecobalyse assumes you fly goods, use grid-average energy and offer no repair service, resulting in 25-40 % worse scores.

Benchmark now, and improve your score

With Carbonfact you can benchmark your products’ environmental cost against category averages. Calculating now gives you that insight privately and lets you improve before customers see the label. Brands that submit and measure optional parameters (like durability, transport, energy mix) can boost scores significantly compared to applying the conservative default values from Ecobalyse.

“Voluntary” today → “mandatory” tomorrow

The French decree is already approved by the EU, and mandatory display is expected one year after the voluntary phase (target: 2026). Starting now means you can build your data pipes, clean your BOMs, and map suppliers without rushing to catch up. The same dataset feeds CSRD Scope 3, PEFCR, DPP – so the effort is reusable across multiple regulations and reports.

How Carbonfact works

1. Collect and consolidate data

We collect and consolidate your scattered product data from across systems — PLM, ERP, spreadsheets — and automatically prepare it for French Eco-Score scoring by mapping it to the official Ecobalyse taxonomy.

2. Clean data and fill gaps

Incomplete or incorrect data? If key product details like component weights, dtex or locations are missing, Ecobalyse applies conservative defaults — increasing your environmental cost. Carbonfact avoids this by automatically filling your gaps using smart rules created by running more than 50+ million textile LCAs, leading to more accurate, more favorable Eco-Scores.

3. Measure footprints and Eco-Score

Once your data is processed, Carbonfact calculates SKU-level footprints for 16 environmental indicators and fetches your Eco-Scores directly via our integration with Ecobalyse.

4. Submit Eco-Scores and report

Submit Eco-Scores and automate your reporting
Automatically submit Eco-Scores to the French portal and replace generic database scores with your own verified data. At the same time, generate audit-ready reports for CSRD, CDP, BCI, and more — all in one platform.You can now automatically submit your Eco-Scores. This overrides third-party scores that rely solely on the Ecobalyse database, creating a more accurate - and often, more favorable - environmental cost.

5. Reduce Environmental Cost

Dive into your data with our analytics dashboards and simulate Eco-Score changes using our decarbonization solution. Model changes across components, materials, process steps, and transport on a product and catalog level.

A Platform to Evolve With

From carbon accounting to compliance to decarbonization — all in one place

Carbon Accounting

Switch from consultants to fully transparent, fashion-specific carbon accounting.

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Decarbonization

Model product and company-wide reduction scenarios using your real data.

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Reporting

Simplify compliance with automated, audit-ready reports.

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Product LCAs

LCAs across your full catalogue – powered by primary data.

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Data Management

Connect your systems – we’ll clean, map, and enrich your data.

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Security and Compliance

Report and reduce — with a team of data experts by your side.

Ecobalyse

Matched taxonomy and integration with Ecobalyse.

EU PEFCR

Meets EU standards for product-level disclosure.

SOC 2 certified

Enterprise data security, availability & confidentiality.

ISO 14040-44

Methodology independently reviewed by PwC.

Dedicated Onboarding & Customer Success Manager

Access to Data & Climate Science experts

Access to the Carbonfact Collective – a peer network of suppliers and brands

What Our Customers Say

Carbonfact gives me precise carbon measurements that reflect my products - not generic industry averages. They provide bespoke emission factors that reflect the unique materials, suppliers, and processes we actually use, making it easy to simulate changes and see the impact of our sourcing decisions."

Lisa Schmidt

Sustainability Manager at SNOCKS

"With Carbonfact, we finally found a partner that ideally complements our new carbon strategy. The ability to break down carbon data down to product level finally gives us insight into the biggest levers for carbon reduction along the entire product life cycle. With the modelling function of possible scenarios, we hope to integrate carbon reduction measures into product development. This will be an important step towards achieving our carbon targets."

Philipp Schumacher

Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Fondof

“With the help of Carbonfact's production scenario simulator, we were able to assess the environmental impact of our supply chain and make an informed decision to move part of our manufacturing from China to Vietnam. This change has resulted in a 12% reduction in the carbon footprint of our upcoming January 2024 spring collection. “

Nicolas Gand

VP Production at Adore Me

“We have quite a lot of partners that want to distinguish themselves and they have their own bespoke LCAs and then Carbonfact is doing a great job connecting with them directly. Then Carbonfact’s team sits down and works through the LCAs and matches them to the methodology Carbonfact is using in order to integrate data into the platform.”

Julia Kirschner

ARMEDANGELS

“With Carbonfact we can go deeper and do full product LCAs on all of our products. Thanks to being able to measure things early on, it allows us to simulate how a new product is going to have a different impact compared to the current version. For example, one of the new products that we are looking into is expected to decrease its carbon footprint by a fourth just by designing it differently.”

Jessica Genta

Strategy & Sustainability at La Sportiva

We have moved from spend-based carbon accounting into Carbonfact to prioritise primary data and get more accurate calculations. The main reason for us to choose Carbonfact is that we now not only get our company's total carbon footprint but also break it down for each of our products. Thanks to Carbonfact’s focus on the apparel industry we get life cycle assessments with industry-specific data for all our products in an easy way. Which helps us make the right decisions and reach our goal of reducing our emissions by 50% before 2030.”

Malin Bosaeus

Global Sustainability Manager at Happy Socks

“Shoes can consist of up to 1500 components, made from different materials and of different weights. In the beginning, we asked our developers to cut shoes and weigh every single piece but if you want to measure the carbon footprint of your whole portfolio, such a manual approach is not scalable. Carbonfact has helped us a lot in deriving rules on how to overcome data gaps by creating accurate assumptions.”

Philipp Engels

Product Sustainability Lead at On

“The Explorer is, for sure, my favorite feature. I love the ability to look at our product line on a material basis or at the subcategory level. That's so dynamic that we're able to kind of leverage it in different ways depending on the projects that we're working on or the teams that we're engaging with.”

Emily Foster

Director of Planet & People Impact at Burton

“What's really special about Carbonfact is the way that it can work alongside the brands to help identify where there are gaps in our product impact data. But also helping us bridge towards improving that data. So it's much more of a partner to solve the challenges we have, whilst also recognizing that we can, in the interim, fill those gaps where we need to in a way that can scale. That really helped, particularly working in a brand like VF where we've got so many different brands with so many different systems who are all at different points of maturity.”

Julian Ling

VFC Outdoor

Learn more about the French Textile Eco-Score

Explainer video

Eco-Score explained in 15 min

In just 15 minutes, this on-demand webinar gives apparel and footwear brands a clear overview of upcoming requirements for the French Eco-Score, who they apply to, and how to prepare.

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Free tool

Eco-Score Benchmark tool

Measure your French Eco-Score and see how your products compare to real industry data for free - 100% confidential, integrated with the official French Ecobalyse API, covers all 16 environmental indicators.

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Deep dive

Key Eco-Score updates

The French Eco-score framework has just taken a significant step forward – and has a new name. Read everything all recent updates to the methodology in this deep dive on our blog.

Plans and Pricing

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Eco-Score is included in Carbonfact’s Product LCA module

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LCAs for your full product catalogue

16 PEFCR indicators + French Eco-Score

Factory, material & process breakdowns

Guided supplier data collection

Multi-sourcing & complex product support

PLM, ERP & traceability integrations

Automated gap filling & error detection

Transparent, traceable calculations

Optional Module: Carbon Accounting

Optional Add-on: Environmental reporting

Optional Add-on: Decarbonization

Expert Services: Data & Science Support

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is the Eco-Score (Environmental Cost)?

The French Eco-Score, now officially renamed “Environmental Cost” (French: Coût Environnemental), is an environmental labeling system for textile and apparel products under France’s Climate and Resilience Law. It is a methodology for assessing and communicating the environmental impacts of textile products, building on life cycle assessment and evaluations of 16 environmental indicators such as carbon emissions, water consumption, and biodiversity impact.

Who has to comply with French Environmental Cost Labeling?

The environmental labeling requirements apply to all producers, importers, and distributors who place textile products on the French market. This includes any apparel company, French or foreign, that operates within the French market, regardless of its origin.

What products are within the scope of Eco-Score?

Environmental cost covers only“produits textiles d’habillement” (clothing made of textile fibres) (natural or synthetic) and any textile accessory components integrated into those garments. Materials like fur and leather are not within the scope of the eco-score because they are not made of textile fibers. Shoes and accessories are also excluded. Find other exceptions here.

What is the timeline for the rollout of the Environmental Cost?

The Environmental Cost labeling system entered public consultation at the end of 2024 and was approved by the European Commission on May 15, 2025. Once the Conseil d’État completes its review, brands may begin calculating and publishing Eco-Scores voluntarily in the second half of 2025. One year after this voluntary rollout, the scheme becomes fully open: any retailer or distributor operating in France may publish a product’s Environmental Cost on behalf of the brand without additional approval.

Why should my brand calculate the score if it’s voluntary?

Even though it’s voluntary at first, you’ll want to calculate your own Eco-Score because, one year after launch, third parties (distributors, apps) can publish scores using conservative default data, resulting in higher, less favorable ratings. Brand-calculated scores, which can incorporate detailed material and process information, automatically override any third-party score (within one month), giving you a more accurate, and typically lower, impact score.

How is Eco-Score different from PEFCR?

The French Eco-score methodology aims to correct the biases and shortcomings of the European PEFCR framework which does not yet include durability, micro-plastics, biodiversity loss and significantly underestimates the impacts of polyester. Eco-Score thereby introduces criteria that relate not only to the products but to the commercial practices of the fashion brand that manufactures them, tackling fast fashion. Find detailed comparison here

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