Booost Builds World’s First Automatic API Integration Model with AIST-IDEA to Improve GHG Emissions Accounting

Booost Inc., provider of the sustainability ERP platform “booost Sustainability,” which has held the No.1 share among major enterprises for two consecutive years, announced that it has built the world’s first automatic integration model with “AIST-IDEA（Inventory Database for Environmental Analysis）,” one of Japan’s largest emission intensity databases developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology（AIST）. Booost has also established a system for providing AIST-IDEA licenses in connection with this integration. Through the integration, companies using Booost’s sustainability ERP “booost Sustainability（booost GX）” can automatically update the latest AIST-IDEA coefficient data required for GHG emissions accounting via API. This is expected to improve calculation accuracy and significantly reduce the operational workload associated with data updates. AIST-IDEA is one of the world’s largest environmental inventory databases. Developed by AIST, it provides emission intensity data required for product life cycle assessment（LCA）and Scope 1 to 3 calculations while ensuring coverage, representativeness, completeness, and transparency. Its data structure is organized based on the Japan Standard Industrial Classification and the Census of Manufacture classification, and it is widely used for assessing environmental impacts across the life cycle of products and services. For companies pursuing carbon neutrality, managing updates to external databases and ensuring data authenticity have been major challenges. Traditionally, customer companies or providers of GHG emissions accounting systems needed to maintain and update large databases themselves, creating risks of update delays and operational errors. Booost had previously provided services through an AIST-IDEA usage application model within its accounting system. In parallel, since January 2025, it incorporated API functions from AIST Solutions and realized an “AIST-IDEA API integration” model. Booost has now begun offering this API-based service in “booost Sustainability” as the first accounting partner API integration. Companies adopting the platform gain three key benefits. First, they can access the latest AIST-IDEA data through API synchronization, immediately reflecting updated coefficients based on legal revisions and research updates. Second, the system improves data security and governance by referencing only necessary data, eliminating the need to hold large internal databases and reducing leakage risk, while timestamps and related mechanisms support the objectivity of calculation results. Third, it eliminates manual updates, reducing operational errors while providing an efficient and highly accurate calculation environment. As an accounting partner of AIST Solutions, Booost will use the automatic API integration with AIST-IDEA to help companies make their GHG emissions accounting more precise and advanced, while providing a platform that supports integrated data-driven accounting operations. The company aims to create a mechanism in which reduction efforts at operational sites are accurately reflected in calculation results. Booost also plans to continue providing standard infrastructure that connects sustainability information to management decision-making and contributes to corporate value enhancement. “booost Sustainability” is an integrated SX platform compliant with international disclosure standards. It automates the collection and aggregation of environmental, social, and governance data, enables real-time monitoring, supports XBRL-based disclosure, and calculates financial impact. It also supports multi-layer approval workflows and third-party assurance. Booost also offers industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, logistics and transportation, and the automotive sector. Its “booost PCF” solution precisely calculates product carbon footprints across product life cycles, supporting BOM/BOP structure imports, supplier response data integration, and calculations by raw material, component, and manufacturing process.