Materials used covered by environmental product declarations or credible environmental labels
Measurement answer
What this metric measures
Reports, by material type and environmental declaration or credible environmental label standard, the proportion of materials used that are covered by the stated declaration or label.
Specification
Metric specification
- Result format
- Structured table
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
- Aggregation
- Percentage of total materials used, reported separately for each material type and declaration or label standard.
- Pillar
- Environmental
- Topic
- Value chain
- Controlled domain
- Products and life-cycle assessment
- Entity type
- Metric
Reporting boundary
Materials used in the reporting organization’s value chain; coverage is limited to materials for which an environmental product declaration or other credible environmental label is applied.
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
- Page 81, metric table, Response—Dependency, impact, risk and opportunity management: Value chain
- Adopting DisclosureEH.A22.0
TNFD sector guidance
- Publisher
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
- Edition
- Version 1.0, January 2025
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Relationship
- Maps Source Identity
- Mapping outcome
- Published
- Source locator
- Page 81, metric table, Response—Dependency, impact, risk and opportunity management: Value chain
Value structure
Dimensions and units
- Unit
- Structured table — see field-level units
- Reporting basis
- Reporting period
Unit meaning: Each field uses its stated unit and retains the applicable sector, reporting boundary, period and method.
Table fields and units
- materialType
- environmentalDeclarationOrLabelStandard
- materialsUsed
- materialsUsedCovered
- coveragePercentage
Published dimensions
- material type
- environmental declaration or label standard applied
Calculation method
Formula information
- Status
- Specified
- Formula type
- Percentage
Formula
coveragePercentage = (materialsUsedCovered / materialsUsed) × 100Apply the source-defined TNFD sector-guidance method within the stated reporting boundary. The source specifies a separately reportable percentage outcome with required material-type and label-standard dimensions. It is not the same construct as the existing shortlist items, which concern GHG removals, value-chain profiles, mitigation, biogenic emissions or aluminium-specific certification.
Variables
| Symbol | Variable | Definition | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
materialsUsedCovered | Materials used covered by declaration or label | Amount of a given material type used that is covered by the specified environmental product declaration or credible environmental label. | same disclosed unit as materialsUsed |
materialsUsed | Materials used | Total amount of the given material type used within the disclosed reporting boundary. | organization-defined mass or other disclosed material-use unit |
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 81, metric table, Response—Dependency, impact, risk and opportunity management: Value chain
Supports: The official TNFD sector guidance supports the identity, boundary and method basis of “Materials used covered by environmental product declarations or credible environmental labels”.
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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).
- Definition of materials used and the organizational and value-chain boundary applied.
- Method used to determine whether a material is covered by an environmental product declaration or credible environmental label.
- Environmental declaration or label standard applied for each reported material type.
- Denominator used to calculate the percentage of materials used.
Record-specific limitations
- The source does not prescribe a single unit across all table fields.
- Credibility and eligibility criteria for environmental labels are not specified in the extracted evidence and must be disclosed.
- Coverage depends on the organization’s definition and measurement of materials used and its value-chain boundary.
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.