Medicine Carbon Footprint Data

What is MCF Classifier

Medicine Carbon Footprint Classifier provides trusted carbon footprint data for over 90% of pharmaceutical products. It’s already used by pharmaceutical companies, distributors, hospitals, and researchers worldwide.

Built on our published, peer-reviewed methodology, MCF Classifier turns a simple product list into decision-ready data. It is purpose-built to support your strategy, compliance, reporting, and sustainability goals, easily and efficiently.

Organisations use MCF Classifier to:

  • Measure the carbon footprint of their medicines.

  • Understand and prioritise across portfolios.

  • Meet reporting requirements.

  • Compare emissions in real-world contexts.

  • Act quickly and cost-effectively.

MCF Classifier delivers carbon footprint data through three offerings:

Decision-ready, detailed carbon footprint reports that empower strategies, action prioritisation, reporting, and market positioning.

CO₂e values available for selected medicines or as comprehensive datasets, supporting research, analyses, modelling, and reporting.

Free online tool to explore carbon footprint ratings across thousands of medicines to enable awareness and ideation.

MCF Classifier is compliant with GHG Protocol, ISO 14067 and PAS 2050

Explore MCF Reports

  • Provides a detailed cradle-to-gate, independent, compliant, 20 page carbon footprint report for a specific medicine product and a one-page visual summary via the MCF CarbonStamp™. Ready-to-use in strategy decisions, tenders, and reporting.

  • Provides a structured, accessible overview of CO2e variation across your full product portfolio using visual tools like the MCF RatingRing™ and MCF ProductSpectrum™. Informs strategy, prioritization, action, and engagement. 

  • Provides comparative, contextualised, real-world product CO2e analyses across an indication or competitor products, to support market positioning and launches. In a recent report we found a 200x difference in emissions between standard respiratory biologics treatment regimens.

  • Provides total carbon emissions across a defined medicine list and time period to support Scope 3 reporting. For a recent client we calculated emissions of nearly 40 billion doses, and identified that 76% of emissions were due to 19% of products, allowing data-driven supplier engagement.

Inside MCF Classifier

At the core of MCF Classifier is an AI-driven life-cycle assessment approach that models emissions using validated models and product specific attributes. 

Unlike other methods it delivers standardised, comparable, product-specific data, at scale.

Read our Method Paper to learn more.

Work with us

MCF Classifier is already being used by thousands of professionals across five continents.

To support research, strategy, procurement, compliance, reporting, marketing and sustainability.

MCF Classifier - an action-ready solution

🏷️ Product-specific carbon emission data.

🔍 Trusted, peer-reviewed methodology.

⚖️ Standardised and comparable. 

🛡️ Independent and assured.

📈 Scalable and efficient.

⏱️ Fast turnaround (2-4 weeks).

⚡️ No set-up requirements.

✅ User-friendly and user-ready.

Take a look at our sample reports to see how we can support you.