Visualization of sustainability goals

A method for visualizing sustainability goals, comprising:

• receiving user input of a product description for a product;
• categorizing the product description using a tiered taxonomic hierarchy corresponding to a tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories;
• storing the product description in the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories of a data model comprising the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories;
• generating at least one recommended action based on the data model and the user input;
• generating a sustainability statement indicating the at least one recommended action;
• and
• outputting the sustainability statement for visualizing the sustainability goals, wherein
• the data model provides for a nesting of product description records within tiers of the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories.

A computing system for visualizing sustainability goals, comprising:

• memory storing a data model comprising a tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to:
• receive user input of a product description for a product;
• categorize the product description using a tiered taxonomic hierarchy corresponding to the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories;
• store the product description in the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories of the data model;
• generate at least one recommended action based on the data model and the user input;
• generate a sustainability statement indicating the at least one recommended action;
• and
• output the sustainability statement for visualizing the sustainability goals, wherein
• the sustainability statement is formatted as a matrix representing sustainability metrics organized into executable actions, the matrix visually representing the tiered hierarchy of sustainability categories.