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CCUS monitoring compliance and leakage incidents

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports CCUS monitoring-plan compliance across sites and injection facilities, together with detected leakage events or significant irregularities and their site-level incidence.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Report the number and proportion of CCUS sites and injection facilities operating under compliant monitoring and verification plans, and the number of detected leakage events or significant irregularities per site.
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Carbon capture, utilization and storage
Controlled domain
Climate and greenhouse gases
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

CCUS sites and injection facilities operated by, or within the reporting boundary of, the organization during the reporting period.

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 Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Source evidence
    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 116, Table AF.C23.3
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    AF.C23.3
    Publisher
    Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
    Edition
    Version 1.0, June 2026
    Requirement
    Conditional
    Relationship
    Maps Source Identity
    Mapping outcome
    Published
    Source locator
    page 116, Table AF.C23.3
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Structured table — see field-level units
Reporting basis
Reporting period

Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.

Table fields and units

  • CCUS sites and injection facilities in scope
  • Sites and injection facilities operating under compliant monitoring and verification plans
  • Proportion of sites and injection facilities operating under compliant monitoring and verification plans
  • Detected leakage events or significant irregularities
  • Detected leakage events or significant irregularities per site

Published dimensions

  • facility type (CCUS site or injection facility)
  • monitoring and verification plan compliance status
  • incident type (detected leakage event or significant irregularity)
  • site or facility identifier

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Report the source-defined result with its stated fields and method disclosures. The source specifies reportable outputs rather than merely a calculation input or contextual statement: counts and proportions of facilities operating under compliant monitoring and verification plans, plus detected leakage events or significant irregularities per site. These outcomes require a structured table because they use distinct field-level units and facility-level dimensions. None of the shortlisted existing metrics has the same CCUS monitoring-compliance and leakage-incident construct, boundary or value shape.

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 116, Table AF.C23.3

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “CCUS monitoring compliance and leakage incidents”.

    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 CCUS sites and injection facilities included in the reporting boundary and identify whether operated, owned, controlled or otherwise attributable facilities are included.
  • Disclose the monitoring and verification plan compliance criteria, including the governing regulatory, permit, contractual or internal standard.
  • Disclose the method for identifying, classifying and counting detected leakage events and significant irregularities, including detection thresholds and materiality criteria.
  • Disclose the denominator used for the proportion of compliant sites or facilities and the method used to calculate or present incidents per site.
  • Disclose the reporting-period coverage, any facilities entering or leaving the boundary, and material data gaps or estimation methods.

Record-specific limitations

  • The metric does not establish a universal definition of compliant monitoring and verification plans; the reporting organization must disclose the applicable plan, standard, permit or regulatory basis.
  • Incident counts may not be comparable where detection thresholds, monitoring coverage, incident-materiality criteria or reporting requirements differ across sites or jurisdictions.
  • The source describes incidents per site; organizations should not aggregate site-level incident rates without disclosing the aggregation method.

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.