HowGood and Watershed Expand Partnership to Deliver Unmatched Scope 3 Data Accuracy and Automation for ESG Reporting in the Food and Beverage Industry

Raising the Bar for Agricultural Emissions Reporting

As regulatory mandates such as CSRD, California’s SB 253 and SB 261, and Senate Bill 3456 in New York reshape corporate climate accountability, businesses are under increasing pressure to provide verifiable, comprehensive emissions data. The most challenging aspect? Scope 3—especially agricultural emissions from Purchased Goods and Services, which are notoriously complex to track and make up the bulk of a company’s corporate footprint. This partnership aims to address the complexities of Scope 3 measurement for food and beverage companies while delivering data businesses can act on.

From Reporting to Reduction: Key Benefits for Companies

With this expanded collaboration, HowGood and Watershed are delivering a solution tailored to any business with a significant food and beverage footprint. Through this partnership, joint customers gain:

• Best-in-Class Agricultural Emissions Data: Ingredient- and commodity-level impact data for audit-ready reporting, Product Carbon Footprinting and corporate risk assessments.
• Audit-Grade, Enterprise-Level Reporting: Verified Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions data, aligned with CSRD, CDP, and SBTi FLAG standards, powered by HowGood’s Carbon Trust verified carbon footprinting methodology and enabled through Watershed’s reporting tools. 
• Targeted Reduction Strategies: Hotspot identification, allowing companies to focus reduction efforts where they matter most.‍
• A Unified, Scalable System of Record: Streamlined data ingestion that ensures a centralized, single source of truth for sustainability teams.

Driving Actionable Change at Scale

As reporting expectations and sustainability commitments grow, HowGood and Watershed’s partnership ensures businesses can not only keep pace but lead the way in data-driven climate action.

"Watershed and HowGood share a mission: to drive meaningful emissions reductions at scale, and to do it fast,” said David Ban, Head of Product Partnerships at Watershed. “This partnership helps us provide businesses with the highest-quality agricultural emissions data, empowering them to meet rising reporting standards while making real progress on sustainability goals.”

“Comprehensive sustainability reporting is no longer a nice-to-have—it’s business critical," says Michael Streitberger, Head of Partnerships at HowGood. "As regulations tighten and stakeholders demand greater transparency, businesses need streamlined, high-quality data to stay ahead. This partnership gives businesses a centralized solution that not only meets evolving external requirements, but also equips them to take meaningful, efficient action on climate goals." 

The partnership is already yielding business benefits for joint customers, including Sweetgreen. Ingredion, a long-time customer of HowGood’s, is now leveraging the integration to bring their custom product carbon footprinting into Watershed’s CSRD reporting interface. 

“Sustainability is a business priority for Ingredion, both in how we manufacture our products and how we support our customers in their own innovation and reporting efforts,” says Brian Nash, VP of Corporate Sustainability at Ingredion. “Working with both HowGood and Watershed will bring our sustainability capabilities to the next level, leveraging our product footprinting and corporate carbon accounting abilities to ensure full business alignment and efficient reporting.”

HowGood and Watershed will be holding a joint webinar on May 13 to discuss new capabilities made available to the food and beverage industry as a result of their partnership. To learn more reach out to partner-howgood@watershed.com.

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About HowGood

HowGood is an independent research company and SaaS Sustainability Intelligence platform with the world’s largest database on food product sustainability. With more than 90,000 agricultural emissions factors, HowGood helps leading brands, suppliers, retailers and restaurants to measure, reduce, and communicate their environmental and social impact. Through in-depth, ingredient-level insights into factors like greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, labor risk, animal welfare, and other key impacts, HowGood’s data power strategic decision-making for the sourcing, manufacturing, merchandising, and marketing of sustainable products.

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About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. Watershed is the platform of choice for companies seeking to reduce emissions; meet customer, investor and regulatory requirements; and modernize their sustainability programs. Watershed customers also have exclusive access to a marketplace of pre-vetted, high-quality carbon projects and groundbreaking virtual power purchase agreements.

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