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How Do I Check or Share a Footprint Statement?

Download the footprint statement that comes with figures calculated in Sustained or by an approved partner, check any statement from its verify link, and get the current figures.

Included in every plan, including Registry Free

Figures on the Registry calculated in Sustained, or by an approved registry partner, carry a stamp saying who calculated them, from what and when: Calculated on Sustained (a core registry partner) or Calculated by the partner (an approved registry partner).

Downloading the statement

The stamp offers Download the footprint statement (PDF): a document you can file, forward or attach to your own claim. It holds the figures, the method and datasets behind them, a statement reference, a verify link and its QR code.

The Registry keeps a record of every statement it issues, so an edited or forged copy does not match. A statement is a copy of the figures on the day it was issued; the Registry holds the current figures.

Checking a statement

Anyone can open a statement's verify link, or scan its QR code, to Verify a footprint statement on registry.sustained.com. No account is needed. The page says whether it is:

  • Genuine statement: its figures are still the current ones.
  • Genuine statement, since superseded: the publisher's figures have changed since it was issued.
  • Genuine statement, listing withdrawn: the publisher has since withdrawn the figures.

Under Check your copy against this record it lists what the Registry issued, such as the product, the publisher, who calculated it and when, its validity, assurance and method, and the statement reference.

Getting the current figures

Get the current figures in Sustained asks the publisher to share their current figures with you. You sign in first, or create an account if you are new to Sustained. If the figures are already shared with you, you are taken to them, and if your organisation has already asked, you are told so. A publisher that does not take requests through the Registry has to be contacted directly.

On a product report

A product's report PDF, downloaded on the PEF lens, has a second page: its footprint statement. When the product is on the Registry, that page carries the verify link and QR code, so a report you send on can be checked the same way. See How do I share my data on the Registry?

More in Registry

How Does the Sustained Registry Work?What the Registry is, where it sits on your plan, what reportable and exploration only mean, and how a partial footprint is used.How Do I Ask a Supplier for Data?Ask a supplier for their footprint, for one source or many at once, by organisation or by email, and follow the ask until they answer or decline.How Do I Use What a Supplier Sends?Supplier engagement, sorted by who has to act, and the Use sheet: what using a supplier's figures would do, before you use them or save them as a record.How Do I Keep Supplier Data Current?The supplier data status on every source, reviewing updates, finding data on the Registry, Unassigned data, entering data a supplier sent you, and downloads.How Do I Share My Data on the Registry?Share a product's per-kg footprint with the customers you pick or with everyone, see who it is shared with, attach evidence, and keep it in date.How Do I Answer a Customer's Ask?Answer a customer's ask by sharing a product, item by item where they asked about several, or decline it with a reason.

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