CH4 emissions from biogenic product use or disposal
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports methane emissions resulting from the use or disposal of biogenic products, with product and activity-stage context and disclosed CH4 units.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Company reporting period
- Aggregation
- Reported CH4 emissions are aggregated across covered biogenic product use and disposal activities.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Greenhouse gas emissions from biogenic products
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Methane emissions resulting from the use or disposal of biogenic products; reported separately as required by the Land Sector and Removals Standard.
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 60, section 11.1
- Measurement Authority12a0c08e5076ff6d503c
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 60, section 11.1
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Company reporting period
Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable scope, category, land-sector method and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Activity stage
- Product type
- Applicable Scope 3 category
- CH4 emissions
- Method and data source
- Boundary and exclusions
Published dimensions
- product type
- activity stage (use or disposal)
- Scope 3 category where applicable
- gas
- organizational boundary
- spatial boundary
- traceability level
- uncertainty
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 source explicitly requires companies to account for and report this distinct emissions outcome. It is not the same construct as value-chain biogenic CO2, direct biogenic CO2, or general Scope 3 use-phase emissions. Because the extracted evidence does not prescribe one unit, publication is conservatively structured with a field-level disclosed CH4 mass unit rather than inventing a scalar unit or calculation method.
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 60, section 11.1
Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “CH4 emissions from biogenic product use or disposal”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Land Sector and Removals Standard, Version 1.1, published 30 June 2026; effective 1 January 2027.
- CH4 accounting method and applicable emission factors or activity data sources.
- Organizational, product, activity, and spatial boundaries for covered biogenic products.
- Whether each result relates to product use or disposal and the applicable Scope 3 category where relevant.
- Reported CH4 mass unit for each disclosed quantity.
- Treatment of uncertainty, traceability, exclusions, and data gaps.
Record-specific limitations
- The source requires reporting of methane emissions but does not prescribe a single reporting unit in the extracted evidence.
- This metric covers CH4 from biogenic product use or disposal only and must not be represented as biogenic CO2 emissions.
- The extracted evidence does not establish that values are included in, or excluded from, gross Scope 3 totals.
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.