Non-methane volatile organic compound emissions to air
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Non-methane volatile organic compound emissions to air is the mass released from own operations during the reporting period under the source-defined NMVOC category, with methane excluded and group-versus-constituent overlap controlled.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting-period flow
- Aggregation
- Compatible NMVOC group rows only; methane and separately reported constituent rows stay excluded
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Pollution, microplastics and hazardous substances
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Own-operation releases to air for facilities under the applicable current ESRS and E-PRTR threshold profile. Methane is excluded; compatible NMVOC group rows and any separately disclosed constituent rows remain overlap-controlled.
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
EU laws and regulatory guidance
- Publisher
- European Union
- Edition
- Consolidated edition current on 15 August 2026 and applicable to reporting year 2026
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Disclosure
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- Annex II pollutant identities, chemical expressions and air, water and land thresholds
- Adopting DisclosureC2.4
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Conditional
- Relationship
- Reuses Canonical Metric
- Mapping outcome
- Reused
- Source locator
- Page 48, core global metrics table, Pollution/pollution removal, Metric C2.4
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting-period flow
Unit meaning: This metric is reported as a structured table; each field carries the unit stated in the table fields below.
Table fields and units
- NMVOC group and species-profile basis, with methane excluded
- Emitted mass (kg NMVOC — kilograms of non-methane volatile organic compounds; 1 t = 1,000 kg)
- Facility, source, activity, country and financial or operational control boundary
- Annual air-reporting threshold and edition — a reporting gate, not an emission limit
- Measurement, calculation, factor or estimation method, source and uncertainty
- Reporting period, group-versus-constituent overlap control and missing-value reason
Published dimensions
- NMVOC emission row
- Facility, source and activity
- Country and financial or operational control boundary
- Direct, periodic, calculated, factor-based or estimated method
- Reporting period, threshold profile and method edition
- NMVOC group and species-profile basis
Disclosure method
Formula information
- Status
- Not applicable
- Formula type
- Structured Disclosure
Disclosure form
No single formulaPopulate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.
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 15 August 2026
Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 concerning the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
- Publisher
- European Union
- Edition
- Consolidated edition current on 15 August 2026 and applicable to reporting year 2026
- Locator
- Annex II pollutant identities, chemical expressions and air, water and land thresholds
Supports: Official publisher reference linked specifically to the Sustopedia metric “Non-methane volatile organic compound emissions to air”; interpret it with the source-edition basis and limitations shown on this page.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Binding ESRS E2-4 consolidated 1 January 2025, the current E-PRTR Annex II NMVOC row, and current GRI 305-7 link-out evidence.
- NMVOC group and species-profile basis with methane explicitly excluded
- Facility, source, activity, country and control boundary
- Released mass in kg NMVOC, meaning kilograms of non-methane volatile organic compounds
- Applicable air threshold and threshold edition as a reporting gate
- Measurement or estimation method, factor source, uncertainty and reporting period
- Controls preventing group-and-constituent overlap and missing values from becoming zero
Record-specific limitations
- A generic VOC label does not define a universal species set; this profile is explicitly NMVOC.
- Composition, ozone-formation potential and toxicity vary even when released mass is identical.
- NMVOC group values and separately reported constituent VOC values overlap and are not additive.
- The reporting threshold is a disclosure gate, not an emission limit or safe level.
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.