Annual emissions from use of sold products
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports greenhouse gas emissions occurring during one year of use from products sold in the reporting year.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Single value
- Unit
- tCO2e per year — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- One year of product use for products sold in the reporting year
- Aggregation
- Total annual greenhouse gas emissions occurring during the defined one-year use period
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions
- Controlled domain
- Climate and greenhouse gases
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Category 11 (use of sold products): emissions occurring in one year from products sold in the reporting year
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
- 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Defines Measurement
- Mapping outcome
- Direct Evidence
- Source locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
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GHG Protocol
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2011 publication
- Requirement
- Not Specified
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- tCO2e per year — source-defined reporting unit
- Reporting basis
- One year of product use for products sold in the reporting year
Unit meaning: Values use tCO2e per year under the disclosed Scope 3 method, period and boundary.
Published dimensions
- Scope 3 category: 11—use of sold products
- Product sales cohort: products sold in the reporting year
- Use-period basis: one year
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 identifies this as an additional Category 11 metric with a defined annual use-phase outcome, unit, and temporal boundary. It is separately reportable and is not the same construct as total lifetime Category 11 emissions or the gross Scope 3 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 26 August 2026
Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard
- Publisher
- GHG Protocol
- Edition
- 2011 publication
- Locator
- page 105, chapter 09, category 11 additional metrics list
Supports: The official GHG Protocol source supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Annual emissions from use of sold products”.
Open official source
Use with context
Interpretation boundaries
Method disclosures required
Source-edition basis: Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Accounting and Reporting Standard, 2011 publication.
- Disclose that the result covers products sold in the reporting year.
- Disclose that emissions are measured for one year of product use.
- Disclose that the result is reported as Scope 3 Category 11 use-of-sold-products emissions.
Record-specific limitations
- This annual-use metric is distinct from total lifetime emissions from use of sold products.
- The metric isolates emissions occurring during one year of use and therefore does not represent the full lifetime use-phase emissions of products sold.
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.