Carbon stock or CO2 stored in carbon pools
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports the total quantity of carbon stock or CO2 stored in reported carbon pools, disaggregated by carbon pool category and measured period, separately from the physical GHG inventory.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting year, base year or period, and intervening years where measurements were taken
- Aggregation
- Total quantity, disaggregated by carbon pool category
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Carbon removals and storage
- Controlled domain
- Climate and greenhouse gases
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Carbon pools reported by the company; reported separately from the physical GHG inventory
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.
- Measurement AuthoritySource evidence
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Measurement
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Page 73, Reporting recommendations
- Measurement Authorityfe9ff6391327abc26dea
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 73, Reporting recommendations
- Measurement Authority34a1420581cbb709d2bc
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- Current-in-force package: Revised Edition 2004 with operative and conditional supplements through August 2026
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- page 90 paragraph
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting year, base year or period, and intervening years where measurements were taken
Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable scope, category, land-sector method and boundary.
Table fields and units
- reporting period
- reporting-period role
- carbon pool category
- storage measurement basis
- total quantity stored
- storage pool
- spatial boundary
- traceability level
- uncertainty
- permanence context
Published dimensions
- carbon pool category
- storage measurement basis (carbon stock or CO2 stored)
- reporting-period role (reporting year, base year or period, intervening measurement year)
- storage pool
- spatial boundary
- traceability level
- uncertainty
- permanence
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. The reporting recommendation defines a separately reportable storage outcome with required temporal and carbon-pool disaggregation. It is not the same construct as direct biogenic CO2 emissions or water stored. Because the source does not prescribe whether the quantity is carbon stock or CO2, or prescribe one unit, publication is retained as a structured disclosure with field-level units and explicit measurement-basis disclosure.
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 27 August 2026
Land Sector and Removals Standard
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027
- Locator
- Page 73, Reporting recommendations
Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Carbon stock or CO2 stored in carbon pools”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Land Sector and Removals Standard, Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027.
- State whether the quantity is reported as carbon stock or CO2 stored and provide the unit for each quantity field.
- Identify each carbon pool category and the applicable storage-pool and spatial boundaries.
- Report values for the reporting year, base year or period, and all intervening years where measurements were taken.
- Disclose measurement, estimation and monitoring methods, including material uncertainty and traceability information.
- Present the disclosure separately from the physical GHG inventory.
Record-specific limitations
- The source permits reporting either carbon stock or CO2 stored and does not prescribe a common unit.
- This disclosure is separate from the physical GHG inventory and must not be interpreted as netted inventory emissions or removals.
- The source evidence does not establish that all carbon-pool types represent CO2 removals; product storage, land-management storage and other pool types require distinct contextual identification.
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.