Dow has received a 2026 CIO 100 Award from Foundry’s CIO, recognizing the Carbon Footprint Ledger (CFL)– an enterprise-wide digital platform that allows Dow to offer low-carbon products transparently and credibly to customers at scale in the form of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) certificates.

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-wide digital system that is based on current PCF standards, such as ISO14067 and the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Product Standard, and industry guidelines. It dynamically determines the lowest‑greenhouse‑gas production pathway for products through advanced optimization algorithms. The platform issues verifiable PCF certificates and maintains residual balances in a secure, auditable ledger – enabling trusted low‑carbon product offerings, supporting customers in meeting their Scope 3 emissions reduction targets and accelerating value chain decarbonization.

“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.”

The Carbon Footprint Ledger platform was developed on the Databricks platform and in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group and is a flagship initiative under Dow’s broader sustainability and digital transformation efforts.

Executives from the winning companies will be recognized at the CIO 100 Awards and Conferenceopens.