Consequential life-cycle-modeling emissions or removals
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Optional emissions or removals estimated through consequential life-cycle modeling, reported separately in addition to attributional product inventory results.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Inventory period stated for the consequential modeling result
- Aggregation
- Reported separately from, and not netted with, the attributional product inventory result
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Product life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions and removals
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Consequential life-cycle modeling boundary, including the stated reference scenario, geography, time horizon, and modeled market effects
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
- September 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Measurement
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- p.109, §13.3.5, optional reporting list
- Measurement Authority350ff58ec16da2b14f98
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- p.109, §13.3.5, optional reporting list
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Inventory period stated for the consequential modeling result
Unit meaning: Each field uses its source-defined unit and retains the applicable product, unit of analysis, life-cycle stage, gas, period and method.
Table fields and units
- result_type
- emissions_or_removals
- gas
- life_cycle_stage
- reference_scenario
- geography
- time_horizon
- consequential_modeling_method
Published dimensions
- product
- unit of analysis
- functional unit or reference flow
- life-cycle stage
- gas
- biogenic status
- direction (emissions or removals)
- inventory period
- reference scenario
- geography
- time horizon
- consequential modeling method
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 identifies consequential-modeling emissions or removals as an optional reporting item. It is a separately reportable quantitative outcome when labelled consequential and kept outside the attributional inventory total; it is not the same construct as the shortlisted corporate, technological-removal, biogenic-product, or general emissions-to-media metrics.
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 28 August 2026
Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Locator
- p.109, §13.3.5, optional reporting list
Supports: The official GHG Protocol Product Standard source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Consequential life-cycle-modeling emissions or removals”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, September 2011 publication.
- State that the result is consequential and separately reported outside the attributional inventory.
- Disclose the product, unit of analysis, functional unit or reference flow, and life-cycle stages covered.
- Disclose the reference scenario, geography, time horizon, and consequential modeling method.
- Disclose the inventory period, gases included, GWP source/date where CO2e is used, and treatment of biogenic emissions and removals.
- Disclose that offsets, avoided emissions, delayed-emission weighting, indirect land-use change, and indirect market effects are not netted into the attributional inventory result.
Record-specific limitations
- This is an optional consequential result and is outside the attributional product inventory total.
- The result must not be netted with attributional inventory emissions or removals.
- Interpretation depends on the selected reference scenario, modeled market responses, geography, time horizon, and consequential modeling 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.