🧱 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 eu cbam q\&a 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 eu cbam q\&a add intermediate good our platform currently supports the eu cbam q\&a , 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 eu cbam q\&a unless you operate an integrated steel mill or produce sintered ore, pig iron, or crude steel, use the standard method standard method eu cbam q\&a 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 eu cbam q\&a if you purchase any of such goods from external suppliers, you must input them as 🔩 purchased cbam good docid\ bbhvkana38pedvnnez2q9 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 eu cbam q\&a select the measurement unit enter the quantity if applicable, enter an alternative emission factor eu cbam q\&a docid\ d2zsuoqnhqioqfue5yqpu click next mass balance eu cbam q\&a 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 eu cbam q\&a if you purchase any of such goods from external suppliers, you must input them as 🔩 purchased cbam good docid\ bbhvkana38pedvnnez2q9 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 eu cbam q\&a select the measurement unit eu cbam q\&a enter the quantity if applicable, enter an alternative emission factor eu cbam q\&a docid\ d2zsuoqnhqioqfue5yqpu click next edit intermediate good right click on the intermediate good click edit click next to save your changes delete intermediate good right click on intermediate good click delete data sources 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 standard values 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 support\@carbonglance com 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 carbon glance database of standard values currently, we use the following data sources for the carbon content and emission factor values of intermediate goods standard factors provided in annex viii of the eu cbam implementing regulation vidovic, d , marmier, a , zore, l and moya, j , greenhouse gas emission intensities of the steel, fertilisers, aluminium and cement industries in the eu and its main trading partners, publications office of the european union, luxembourg, 2023, doi 10 2760/359533, jrc134682 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