--- title: How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to... description: Dow built a Carbon Footprint Ledger (CFL) on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to calculate verifiable Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) across its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-dow-built-a-carbon-footprint-ledger-on-databricks-to-accelerate-sustainability-at-scale-9f7e4hcja twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to Accelerate Sustainability at Scale | daily.dev og:description: Dow built a Carbon Footprint Ledger (CFL) on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to calculate verifiable Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) across its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-dow-built-a-carbon-footprint-ledger-on-databricks-to-accelerate-sustainability-at-scale-9f7e4hcja og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9F7e4hCja.png og:image:alt: How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to Accelerate Sustainability at Scale og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Dow Built a Carbon Footprint Ledger on Databricks to Accelerate Sustainability at Scale **[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dow built a Carbon Footprint Ledger (CFL) on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to calculate verifiable Product Carbon Footprints (PCFs) across its global manufacturing portfolio. The system integrates supply-chain, sustainability, and operations data using Apache Spark for distributed processing, Delta tables for ACID-compliant storage and audit trails, Unity Catalog for governance, and MLflow for deploying an optimization model that identifies the lowest-greenhouse-gas production pathways. The platform reduced end-to-end PCF calculation time from weeks to a fraction of that, enabling Dow to issue third-party-assured carbon certificates aligned with ISO 14067 and the GHG Protocol Product Standard. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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