🧱 Intermediate Good
Add information about the intermediate goods consumed by your installation during your specified reporting period. These are input goods other than CBAM goods and raw materials.
Click here to learn more about intermediate goods.
The emissions associated with your intermediate goods will contribute to your direct (Scope 1) emissions.
Under the EU CBAM, intermediate goods can also be classified as source streams.
Our platform currently supports the calculation-based approach, which is one of the two approaches permitted by the EU CBAM. This approach, in turn, distinguishes between two methods: the standard method and the mass balance method. We explain these methods in more detail here.
Unless you operate an integrated steel mill or produce sintered ore, pig iron, or crude steel, use the standard method.
Right-click on the screen and select External Inputs > Intermediate Good
Select the Standard calculation method
Select the Intermediate Good
You will notice that the intermediate goods dropdown list includes some CBAM goods, such as pig iron and direct reduced iron (DRI).
These are listed only for cases where you use the bubble approach. If you purchase any of such goods from external suppliers, you must input them as purchased CBAM goods and request the actual emissions data from your suppliers.
You can create a new type of Intermediate Good by typing its name and clicking Create
Note: If you create a new type of intermediate good, you must manually input the calculation factors, including the emission factor and, where available, the conversion factor.
Select the Measurement Unit
Enter the Quantity
Click Next
Right-click on the screen and select External Inputs > Intermediate Good
Select the Mass Balance calculation method
Select the Intermediate Good
You will notice that the intermediate goods dropdown list includes some CBAM goods, such as pig iron and direct reduced iron (DRI).
These are listed only for cases where you use the bubble approach. If you purchase any of such goods from external suppliers, you must input them as purchased CBAM goods and request the actual emissions data from your suppliers.
You can create a new type of Intermediate Good by typing its name and clicking Create
Note: If you create a new type of intermediate good, you must manually input the calculation factors, including the emission factor and, where available, the conversion factor.
Enter the Quantity
Click Next
Right-click on the Intermediate Good
Click Edit
Click Next to save your changes
Right-click on Intermediate Good
Click Delete
For calculating emissions from fuels and materials, the EU CBAM allows the use of various data sources, some of which are considered to be of higher quality than others. The highest-quality data source is laboratory analysis, which can be used to determine calculation factors such as carbon content, emission factor, and/or conversion factor of the raw materials consumed by your installation.
Alternatively, you may use a proxy for the carbon content or emission factor, provided you establish an empirical correlation at least once per year using laboratory analysis. The key difference is that, with this approach, laboratory analysis is only required once a year to establish the correlation, rather than for each batch of material, which helps reduce monitoring costs.
The lowest-quality data, though still permitted when other options are technically unfeasible or would incur unreasonable costs, is the use of standard values. The image below illustrates the hierarchy of these data sources based on their quality.
You have two options:
- Use the database of standard values provided by us (Carbon Glance) Please note that our database may not include global or country-specific data for every type of intermediate good. In cases where data is missing, no values will be automatically pre-filled, and you will need to input them manually. If you'd like us to add calculation factors for a specific type of intermediate good, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]
- Input your own values You can use standard values from data sources you already use for other carbon accounting frameworks, or even data from higher data quality sources. It's very important to specify the source of these values in the Notes field to ensure transparency.
Currently, we use the following data sources for the carbon content and emission factor values of intermediate goods:
Criteria for Data Source Prioritization
We prioritize data sources based on the following criteria, listed in order of relevance:
- Granularity
- Preference is given to country-specific datasets over global ones.
- Recency
- Data from the most recent year is preferred over older datasets.
- Consistency
- When multiple sources are available for the same country and year, preference is given to the one most commonly used across our platform for other countries. This is done to ensure greater consistency in the underlying methodologies.