A product-level climate metric that combines greenhouse-gas emissions and removals for a product system in CO2-equivalent terms.
Carbon footprint of a product is the full product-level climate-change result for the product system, expressed in CO2-equivalents across the relevant life-cycle assessment boundary. It is narrower than environmental footprint because it focuses on greenhouse-gas climate impact, but it still depends on lifecycle boundaries, product-system assumptions, data quality, allocation choices, and treatment of emissions and removals.
This page uses ISO 14067 as non-verbatim implementation context. It supports the carbon-footprint cluster, but it is not the same as corporate Scope 1, Scope 2, or Scope 3 reporting, and it should not be confused with CBAM embedded-emissions terminology.
These entries are non-verbatim context summaries. They are not presented as public legal definitions.
ISO 14067:2018 - Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products
ISO 14067 provides non-verbatim implementation context for carbon footprint of a product as the product-system climate result that combines greenhouse-gas emissions and removals and is expressed in CO2-equivalent terms.
Non-verbatim implementation-context summary only; not a verbatim ISO definition. ISO 14067 is a copyrighted standard, so this page uses it as implementation context rather than republishing the standard text.
Reference: 3.1.1.1
Reviewed public draft page. Aligns with environmental/footprint policy: separates lifecycle boundaries, impact categories, carbon values, gas inputs, durability evidence, post-use events, and composition/circularity controls.
This term originates in ISO 14067:2018 and/or ISO 14044 LCA methodology. It is used in EU product regulation — particularly under the EU Battery Regulation (PEF method for carbon footprint) and ESPR (environmental footprint) — because both regulations require lifecycle-based quantification of environmental impacts. Practitioners applying these regulations should be familiar with these LCA/PEF concepts to correctly scope, conduct, and verify product-level environmental assessments.
Implementation records should capture CO2-equivalent value, product-system boundary, data-quality note, allocation rule, product identifier, declared unit, lifecycle stage coverage, emissions/removals treatment, supplier data source, calculation file, verification status, and publication date.
Carbon footprint of a product is the product-carbon evidence record around which product-level climate claims are organized. The value needs to stay linked to the product identifier, lifecycle boundary, source data, method choices, and provenance so the CO2-equivalent result can be checked rather than copied as a loose number.