Persistent chemicals manufactured and used
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports tonnes of qualifying persistent chemicals manufactured and used, disaggregated by chemical, activity, classification basis, and value-chain phase.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Report quantities by individual chemical, activity, and value-chain phase; do not aggregate across rows unless chemical, activity, and phase populations are non-overlapping.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Persistent chemical pollution across the value chain
- Controlled domain
- Pollution
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Chemicals manufactured and used across direct operations, downstream use, and end-of-life phases that are classified under EU REACH Annex XIV, REACH SVHCs, PIC, or POP substances.
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
- TNFD Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics, p. 55 | Page 55, Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics
- Adopting DisclosureC.A2.0
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, June 2024
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 55, Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics
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
- chemical
- chemical identifier where available
- classification basis
- activity
- value-chain phase
- quantity
- unit
- measurement or estimation basis
Published dimensions
- individual chemical
- activity: manufactured or used
- classification basis: EU REACH Annex XIV, REACH SVHC, PIC, or POP
- value-chain phase: direct operations, downstream use, or end-of-life
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 specifies a mass quantity in tonnes, individual-chemical disaggregation, qualifying classification bases, and direct-operation, downstream-use, and end-of-life coverage. These required dimensions make the construct a structured reporting metric rather than a single undifferentiated chemical total.
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
- TNFD Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics, p. 55 | Page 55, Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Persistent chemicals manufactured and used”.
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).
- Identify each chemical reported and the classification basis or bases supporting inclusion.
- Disclose whether the quantity represents manufacture, use, or both, and report these activities separately where applicable.
- Disclose the value-chain phase for each reported quantity: direct operations, downstream use, or end-of-life.
- Explain how quantities are measured or estimated and how duplicate counting is prevented across classifications, activities, and phases.
- State the applicable chemical-classification edition or reference date used for the reporting period.
Record-specific limitations
- The disclosed quantity does not by itself indicate chemical hazard, exposure, release, persistence in a receiving environment, or resulting nature impacts.
- A chemical may qualify under more than one listed classification basis; classification overlap must be managed to prevent duplicate reporting.
- The source excerpt does not provide a conversion, estimation, or mass-balance methodology.
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.