Product life-cycle indirect land-use-change GHG impact
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports consequential indirect land-use-change greenhouse gas impacts associated with a product separately from its attributional life-cycle inventory.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- CO2e per unit of analysis — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Declared product inventory period
- Aggregation
- Aggregate only compatible consequential indirect land-use-change estimates with the same product, reference scenario, geography, period, unit of analysis and method; never add them to the attributional inventory total.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Product life-cycle greenhouse gas accounting
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Consequential indirect land-use-change impacts associated with the product and reported separately outside the physical product life-cycle inventory boundary.
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. 93, chapter 11, avoided emissions paragraph | p.109, §13.3.5, optional reporting list | PAGE 39, Chapter 07 Boundary Setting requirements, final paragraph
- Measurement Authority9a25daa668cbe9133ca2
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- p. 93, chapter 11, avoided emissions paragraph
- Measurement Authorityd94445c8d08b8129fd91
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
- Measurement Authoritydbbe7e9a32d702e83c3a
GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- September 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- PAGE 39, Chapter 07 Boundary Setting requirements, final paragraph
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- CO2e per unit of analysis — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- Declared product 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 life-cycle indirect land-use-change GHG impact
- Reported value and unit
- Product boundary and dimension
- Period and method notes
Published dimensions
- Indirect land-use-change method
- Outside-inventory reporting status
- Product and inventory version
- Unit of analysis, functional unit or reference flow
- Cradle-to-grave or cradle-to-gate boundary
- Inventory period
- 100-year GWP source and date
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 Product Standard permits significant calculable indirect land-use-change impacts to be reported separately. This route preserves their outside-inventory status and cannot be merged with direct land-use-change impacts.
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. 93, chapter 11, avoided emissions paragraph | p.109, §13.3.5, optional reporting list | PAGE 39, Chapter 07 Boundary Setting requirements, final paragraph
Supports: The official GHG Protocol Product Standard source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Product life-cycle indirect land-use-change GHG impact”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard, September 2011 publication.
- Product and inventory version
- Unit of analysis and reference flow
- Boundary, exclusions and life-cycle-stage definitions
- GWP source/date and included gases including the 2013 NF3 overlay
- Allocation, recycling, land-use-change, uncertainty and assurance methods when applicable
- Confirmation that the result is indirect, consequential and reported outside the inventory total
- Reference scenario, geography, time horizon, significance basis and indirect land-use-change method
Record-specific limitations
- Indirect land-use-change impacts are outside the attributional product inventory and must not be relabelled as direct land-use-change results.
- Comparability depends on the disclosed consequential model, reference scenario, geography, time horizon and significance assessment.
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.