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Carbon Measures es una coalición global que representa a las principales empresas de diversas industrias y zonas geográficas para establecer un marco de recuento de carbono más preciso e impulsar soluciones basadas en el mercado para reducir las emisiones al menor coste.

Carbon Measures aboga por una nueva política que aproveche la innovación, la competencia y el poder del mercado. Los estándares de intensidad de carbono a nivel de producto, basados en datos verificables informados por un marco de recuento de emisiones mejorado, pueden crear mercados en los que las empresas reciban recompensas por invertir en una producción con un uso de carbono reducido.

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Carbon Measures’ membership includes leading businesses from diverse industries and geographies, many of which operate large, complex supply chains. The industrial sector accounts for a significant percentage of global emissions and has an important role to play in decarbonization. Their participation is essential to developing an accounting framework that works in real-world conditions. Carbon Measures is actively building a broad membership base to ensure the framework reflects diverse business models and operational realities, as well as sufficient coverage by industry to address the specific approaches required for product-level measurement. Member companies are committed to establishing a more accurate, ledger-based carbon emissions accounting system for tracking emissions and supporting compliance-based product-level carbon intensity standards that unlock innovation, competition, and lower-carbon manufacturing. Our members understand the importance of reducing global carbon emissions, and they’re committed to help reach that goal.

No. Carbon Measures was established to unlock demand for lower-carbon products. Carbon Measures is advocating for a decision-useful carbon accounting framework coupled with mandatory, product-level carbon intensity standards enforced by governments. Carbon Measures’ carbon accounting framework will establish the foundational data that will enable businesses to differentiate lower-carbon products and equip policymakers to establish clear, enforceable product-level carbon intensity standards.

Carbon Measures brings together a group of companies representing diverse industries, geographies, and perspectives — united by a shared ambition to create strong market demand for low-carbon production.

Individual member companies, as well as participants in our independent panels and working groups, represent a wide range of views across many topics. However, all members align on one core principle: the need for market-enabling innovation to drive demand for the products and services required to accelerate emissions reductions at scale across the value chain.

Carbon Measures’ perspectives are reflected on this website and are updated periodically to reflect the evolution of the coalition and our work.

El recuento de carbono va más allá de la presentación de informes y la divulgación de acciones a nivel empresarial; se trata de un sistema verificado para calcular las emisiones de carbono asociadas a productos, empresas y países. De forma similar a los principios financieros, rastrea de dónde provienen las emisiones por entidad y cuánto se produce a medida que crean sus productos.

Al igual que los principios financieros que requieren que un activo o pasivo sea mantenido por una sola organización a la vez, un buen marco de emisiones de carbono se asegura de que cada tonelada de carbono se cuente una sola vez y de forma precisa y se atribuya al lugar correcto.

Un sistema de contabilidad permite a las empresas y proveedores calcular y realizar un seguimiento preciso de las emisiones de carbono de su producto en cada paso de su ciclo de vida. Al igual que una práctica de recuento estándar asigna el coste de los materiales y los gastos generales a un producto terminado, los libros mayores de carbono asignan y realizan un seguimiento de diferentes tipos de emisiones al producto correcto. Esto permite que el carbono asociado siga al activo a lo largo del ciclo de vida del producto.

Por ejemplo, las emisiones totales generadas para fabricar y transportar cada parte de un automóvil se transfieren al valor de las emisiones del automóvil terminado, lo que evita el doble recuento y las brechas en las emisiones.

The framework will be developed by an independent Technical Expert Panel co-launched by Carbon Measures and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). The panel will apply sound science and financial-accounting principles to enable a ledger-based carbon accounting system that is more precise and addresses existing information gaps. The panel will include experts from academia, industry, financial accounting, attestation, technology, chemistry, engineering, and civil society, supported by an Advisory Group focused on real-world feasibility and implementation.

Un estándar de intensidad de carbono a nivel de producto establece un nivel máximo de emisiones permitidas por unidad de un producto, por ejemplo, CO₂ por tonelada de acero o por vatio de electricidad. Es un estándar obligatorio que todos los productores que venden en un mercado deben cumplir.  

Los gobiernos pueden hacer que el estándar sea más estricto a medida que mejore la tecnología, contribuyendo a disminuciones sistemáticas en las emisiones de carbono permitidas por unidad de producto –y por extensión, en las emisiones de carbono en general–, al tiempo que se satisface la demanda.

Los estándares de intensidad de carbono a nivel de producto nivelan el campo de juego, recompensan la innovación y garantizan que el progreso sea real y medible.

The work of Carbon Measures will result in a carbon emissions accounting framework rooted in financial-accounting principles to provide accurate, verifiable, product-level data. This level of specificity and comparability is required for product-level differentiation.

Reporting frameworks like the GHG Protocol and others are widely used for voluntary corporate inventory disclosure, but they weren’t designed to track product-level emissions through the supply chain or distinguish products with different carbon intensities. To support innovation and competition across supply chains, markets need accurate, product-level data that can be delivered through a ledger-based carbon accounting framework.

No. While Scope 3 reporting has played a role in voluntary upstream and downstream emissions disclosure, it leads to double counting and indeterminate accounting of emissions due to estimations and assumptions.

Companies may continue to provide their Scope 3 emissions on a voluntary basis, even as they adopt a ledger-based approach to product-level carbon accounting.

Ultimately, a ledger-based carbon accounting framework in which entities only account for emissions on a gate-to-gate basis can be developed to account for emissions across the full value chain, allowing for even better visibility into emissions without the challenges of multiple counting of those emissions.