Overview

 

Industries such as iron/steel, alumina/aluminium, and cement are facing ever-increasing market and regulatory pressure to decarbonise their production. Increasingly, policymakers, consumers and investors see embedded emissions as a key determinant of initiatives aimed at creating a level playing field. Verification and certification of emission embedded/embodied in products therefore have a central role in emerging regulatory and market regimes. Successful transition to low-carbon production will depend on companies’ ability to efficiently and effectively verify their product embedded emissions and use this verification to navigate emerging regulatory and market regimes. Currently however, embedded emissions certification and verification schemes are costly, overlapping, incompatible, and confusing.