UL Solutions Inc. (NYSE: ULS), a global leader in applied safety science, announced the launch of an AI-powered ULTRUS UL 360 software capability designed to help organizations calculate product carbon footprints and improve the quality of supplier emissions data used in carbon accounting and reporting.

“Companies are being asked for product-level carbon information more often, and Scope 3 supplier data can be one of the biggest bottlenecks,” said John Genovesi, executive vice president and president of Risk and Compliance Software at UL Solutions. “Our new AI-powered ULTRUS UL 360 software capability is designed to make it easier to gather supplier emissions data and turn it into product carbon footprints teams can use with more confidence.”

As product carbon footprint requests rise across global supply chains, many organizations still depend on manual spreadsheets and one-off supplier questionnaires, making it hard to generate consistent, updatable results across products. ULTRUS UL 360 streamlines this process by centralizing supplier data and enabling sustainability, procurement, and product teams to produce consistent, comparable product-level carbon footprints across an entire portfolio over time.

The launch comes as companies face growing pressure to measure and disclose Scope 3 emissions associated with their products and supply chains. In Europe, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) expands climate reporting expectations and is pushing companies to collect Scope 3 data — emissions that occur outside a company’s direct operations, such as from suppliers and product use. In the U.S., California’s SB 253 requires large companies doing business in the state to report Scope 3 emissions. Together with investor scrutiny and emerging global standards like the ISSB climate framework, these rules are accelerating demand for consistent, decision-ready product carbon footprint data across complex supply chains.

“New disclosure rules are raising the bar for Scope 3 data quality,” said Simin Zhou, vice president and general manager of Software at UL Solutions. “But many organizations still struggle not only to collect supplier emissions data, but to use it consistently. Our AI-powered software brings structure to supplier inputs, turning them into consistent, audit-ready product carbon footprints companies can use for Scope 3 reporting and decisions.”