Accidental spills of hydrocarbons or chemicals of high concern
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports the count and volume of accidental spills involving hydrocarbons or chemicals of high concern across direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life phases.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- count; m³ — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report the number of accidental spills and the associated spill volume separately, with fields retained for spill material category and value-chain stage.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Pollution
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life phases.
Verified source occurrences
Framework coverage
This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.
- Adopting DisclosureSource evidence
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Page 54, Section 3.2, Table 14, Metric no. C.C2.2
- Adopting DisclosureC.C2.2
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 54, Section 3.2, Table 14, Metric no. C.C2.2
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- count; m³ — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use count; m³ under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Value-chain stage
- Spill material category
- Number of accidental spills
- Accidental spill volume (m³)
Published dimensions
- spill material category: hydrocarbons or chemicals of high concern
- measure: number of accidental spills; spill volume
- value-chain stage: direct operations, downstream activities, end-of-life
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaReport the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. This is a standalone environmental outcome disclosure with two explicitly required reportable outputs: incident count and spill volume. It is not equivalent to the shortlisted compliance, discharge-limit, marketing, or fines metrics, which have different events, regulatory boundaries, and value shapes.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.
Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 30 August 2026
TNFD additional sector guidance collection
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents)
- Locator
- Page 54, Section 3.2, Table 14, Metric no. C.C2.2
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Accidental spills of hydrocarbons or chemicals of high concern”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: TNFD sector guidance, Final English sector guidance collection through August 2026 (17 documents).
- Define the criteria used to classify a chemical as of high concern.
- Disclose the organizational and value-chain boundary used for direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life phases.
- State how accidental spill incidents are identified and counted.
- State how spill volumes are measured or estimated and reported in cubic metres.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted evidence does not specify a materiality threshold, consolidation approach, spill-volume estimation method, or whether volumes are reported by individual pollutant.
- The unit evidence supports cubic metres for spill volume but does not specify precision or conversion conventions.
Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.
Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.