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Products containing GHS Category 1 or 2 hazardous substances by product type

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Reports the quantity of products containing substances classified as GHS Category 1 or 2 for health or environmental hazards, in tonnes and disaggregated by product type.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
tonnes — source-defined reporting unit
Reporting basis
Reporting period
Aggregation
Sum of quantities of products containing substances classified in GHS Category 1 or 2 for health or environmental hazards, reported by product type
Pillar
Environmental
Topic
Hazardous substances and pollution
Controlled domain
Pollution
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Products across direct operations, downstream use and end-of-life stages

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 Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    Source evidence
    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
    Page 55, Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics
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  • Adopting Disclosure

    TNFD sector guidance

    C.A2.2
    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
    Open official framework source

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

  • Product type
  • Hazard domain
  • GHS hazard category
  • Quantity of products containing relevant substances
  • Unit
  • Value-chain stage coverage
  • Classification and mass-basis notes

Published dimensions

  • Product type
  • Hazard domain: health or environmental
  • GHS hazard category: Category 1 or Category 2
  • Value-chain stage coverage: direct operations, downstream use and end-of-life

Calculation method

Formula information

Status
Specified
Formula type
Sum

Formula

For each product type and applicable GHS hazard classification, report the sum of product quantities containing a relevant Category 1 or Category 2 substance during the reporting period.

Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. The evidence specifies a quantity-of-products disclosure in tonnes, rather than revenue. It is distinct from hazardous-waste and substances-of-concern revenue metrics because its population is products containing specified GHS-classified substances, its required dimensions differ, and it covers stated lifecycle stages.

Variables

SymbolVariableDefinitionUnit
Q_p,h,cQuantity of products containing relevant hazardous substancesQuantity of products of product type p containing substances classified for hazard domain h in GHS Category c during the reporting period.tonnes

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
    Page 55, Table 15: Additional sector disclosure indicators and metrics

    Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Products containing GHS Category 1 or 2 hazardous substances by product type”.

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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 GHS classification basis and source used to identify Category 1 and Category 2 hazardous substances.
  • Disclose the definition of product type and the mass basis used for reported quantities.
  • Disclose the approach for products containing multiple relevant substances, health and environmental classifications, including any double-counting treatment.
  • Disclose coverage and treatment of direct operations, downstream use and end-of-life stages.

Record-specific limitations

  • GHS hazard classifications identify intrinsic hazards and do not alone measure exposure, releases, product use or realised human-health or environmental impacts.
  • A product may contain more than one relevant substance or hazard classification; the allocation and double-counting treatment must be disclosed.

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.