An ISO 14067 inventory-flow term for the release of a greenhouse gas.
Greenhouse gas emission is the release of a greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, forming one of the core flows counted in product carbon accounting. It is not every environmental release and should stay tied to gas identity, process, and calculation boundary.
This page follows ISO 14067:2018. It supports product-footprint inventory modelling and should be distinguished from broader pollution, ESG, or corporate-emissions language.
ISO 14067:2018 - Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products
GHG emission
Reference: 3.1.2.5
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 the emission event, gas identifier, process link, inventory flow, activity data, emission-factor source, measurement or calculation method, and product-system boundary.
Greenhouse gas emission is an inventory-flow control: the evidence consequence is that climate-relevant releases can be connected to processes, gases, and product-system boundaries before being aggregated into CO2e results.