Dow has earned a 2026 CIO 100 Award for its Carbon Footprint Ledger (CFL). This enterprise-wide digital platform enables Dow to provide customers with transparent, credible, and scalable Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) data, making it easier to offer low-carbon products across the board.

The annual CIO 100 Awards recognize organizations and teams that demonstrate excellence in using information technology to drive business value, innovation, and competitive advantage.

The Carbon Footprint Ledger is an enterprise-grade digital platform built on global standards like ISO 14067 and the GHG Protocol. Using advanced optimization, it identifies the cleanest production pathways to minimize emissions. The system issues verifiable certificates and tracks residual balances in a secure, auditable ledger—helping you deliver trusted low-carbon products, simplify Scope 3 reporting for customers, and drive decarbonisation across the entire value chain.

“The Carbon Footprint Ledger is an example of taking an extremely complex product and carbon data model and operationalizing it through a standards based, ledger driven digital platform to deliver meaningful customer solutions for decarbonization while reinforcing Dow’s leadership in climate innovation,” said Debra Bauler, chief information and digital officer at Dow.

By re-platforming proprietary product and material mapping capabilities onto Dow’s Integrated Data Hub, the CFL solution integrates supply chain, sustainability, and financial data into a single, scalable architecture. A user‑centric interface allows Dow teams to generate low‑carbon product offers, manage product carbon footprint certificates, and operationalize sustainability strategies across the enterprise.

The platform supports customer needs for verifiable, trusted carbon data amid increasing regulatory and supply‑chain requirements, while also enabling low‑carbon offerings at scale and strengthening Dow’s foundation for future growth.

“The CIOs we're recognizing this year aren't just keeping the lights on, they're driving the business," said Richard Smith, head of event content, CIO 100 Awards & Conference. "AI, data, security, cloud; it all lands on the same desk now, and the best CIOs have stopped treating them as separate problems. The 2026 class shows what it looks like when you get that right.”