Non-GHG air pollutant emissions by type
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports tonnes of non-GHG air-pollutant emissions by pollutant type across direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life activities.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report tonnes of emissions separately by non-GHG air-pollutant type and retain value-chain-stage disaggregation.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Pollution
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life activities.
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
- PDF p.49, Pollution/pollution removal table, Metric C2.4
- Adopting DisclosureC2.4
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
- PDF p.49, Pollution/pollution removal table, Metric C2.4
- Adopting Disclosuree15-ammonia
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Ammonia (NH3) emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-black-carbon
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Black carbon emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-carbon-monoxide
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Carbon monoxide (CO) emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-hazardous-air-pollutants
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Hazardous air pollutant emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-nitrogen-oxides
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-nmvoc
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Non-methane volatile organic compound emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-organic-carbon
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Organic carbon emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-persistent-organic-pollutants
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Persistent organic pollutant emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-pm10
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Primary particulate matter 10 (PM10) emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-pm2-5
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Primary particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) emissions
- Adopting Disclosuree15-sulphur-oxides
UN Global Compact Communication on Progress
- Publisher
- United Nations Global Compact
- Edition
- 2026 Communication on Progress Questionnaire and Guidebook, effective 2026
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- 2026 CoP Questionnaire PDF page 47, E15, Sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Values use tonnes under the disclosed TNFD sector-guidance method, reporting period and boundary.
Table fields and units
- Pollutant type
- Value-chain stage
- Emissions (tonnes)
Published dimensions
- pollutant type: particulate matter (PM2.5 and/or PM10), nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and other specified non-GHG air pollutants
- value-chain stage: direct operations, downstream activities, end-of-life activities
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 reportable pollutant-emissions outcome. The SFDR shortlist item is an investment-based intensity and is not equivalent. The TNFD LEAP shortlist item has a potentially related construct but its stated LEAP location, ecosystem and activity boundary cannot be shown from the extracted evidence to match this sector-metric boundary exactly; a distinct identity is therefore retained.
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
- PDF p.49, Pollution/pollution removal table, Metric C2.4
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Non-GHG air pollutant emissions by type”.
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).
- Disclose the non-GHG air pollutants included and the pollutant classification used.
- Disclose the measurement, monitoring, estimation or emissions-factor method used for each pollutant type.
- Disclose the organizational and value-chain boundary, including treatment of direct operations, downstream activities and end-of-life activities.
- State any exclusions, estimation assumptions and unit conversions used.
Record-specific limitations
- The extracted evidence provides pollutant examples but does not provide a complete pollutant list, emissions-factor protocol, monitoring method, or treatment of pollutants emitted in multiple value-chain stages.
- The source evidence does not establish equivalence with the shortlisted TNFD LEAP record's declared LEAP location, ecosystem and activity-boundary structure.
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.