Direct land-use-change greenhouse gas impacts
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Direct greenhouse gas emissions and removals attributable to land-use change, reported separately when included in a product life-cycle inventory.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- CO2e per unit of analysis — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Inventory period
- Aggregation
- Reported separately for direct land-use-change impacts included in the product inventory; retained separately from non-land-use-change inventory results.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Product life-cycle greenhouse gas inventory
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Attributional product life-cycle inventory boundary; direct land-use change only.
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.104, §13.2, Inventory results
- Measurement Authority824ecd907c21b58e2e5c
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- p.104, §13.2, Inventory results
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- CO2e per unit of analysis — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Inventory period
Unit meaning: Values use CO2e per unit of analysis under the disclosed GHG Protocol Product Standard method, product boundary and reporting period.
Table fields and units
- product
- unit of analysis
- life-cycle stage
- before land-use type
- after land-use type
- geography
- gas
- biogenic status
- direction
- direct land-use-change impact (CO2e per unit of analysis)
- inventory period
- GWP source/date
- land-use-change method
Published dimensions
- product
- unit of analysis
- functional unit or reference flow
- life-cycle stage
- boundary type
- gas
- biogenic status
- direction (emission or removal)
- inventory period
- before land-use type
- after land-use type
- geography
- land-use-change method
- GWP source and date
- allocation method
- recycling 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 requires land-use-change impacts to be reported separately when included in the inventory. Under the Product Standard rules, this supports a separately reportable direct land-use-change product-inventory result, with product-inventory dimensions and method disclosures preserved. The available existing metric is not demonstrably the same product-attributional construct and boundary.
Verified sources
Evidence and status sources
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Measurement evidence
- Measurement evidenceChecked 28 August 2026
Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Locator
- p.104, §13.2, Inventory results
Supports: The official GHG Protocol Product Standard source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Direct land-use-change greenhouse gas impacts”.
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Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, September 2011 publication.
- Product and unit of analysis, including functional unit or reference flow where applicable.
- Product life-cycle boundary and relevant life-cycle stage.
- Inventory period.
- GWP source and date used to characterize greenhouse gases.
- Land-use-change quantification method, including land-use classification, geography and timing assumptions.
- Allocation and recycling method where relevant.
- Separate identification of biogenic and non-biogenic emissions and removals where applicable.
Record-specific limitations
- Only direct land-use-change impacts are included.
- Indirect land-use change, indirect market effects, offsets, avoided emissions and delayed-emission weighting are outside this inventory result and must not be netted.
- Reported only when land-use change is included in the product inventory.
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.