How agentic AI helps sustainability teams move from counting carbon to cutting it

Corporate sustainability teams have long struggled to measure Scope 3 emissions accurately. Traditional spend-based models can rank a low-carbon product as worse than a high-carbon one simply because it costs more. This op-ed from Bardo co-founder Oskar Klingberg explains how agentic AI can replace those averages with product-level data drawn from invoices and ERP records, giving companies a real view of their supply chain emissions. When emissions are tied to actual purchases instead of estimates, greener supplier choices show up as lower numbers. That lets sustainability leaders shift their focus from defending data to actually cutting emissions. The article argues this demand-driven pressure up the supply chain may drive more decarbonization than regulation alone.