An ISO 14067 climate-flow term for removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
Greenhouse gas removal is the removal of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. It is not the same as avoided emissions, emission reductions, or offset purchases, and it needs a clear storage, sink, or claim boundary.
This page follows ISO 14067:2018. The term should be used carefully in product-footprint and environmental-claim contexts because removals, reductions, and offset claims answer different evidence questions.
ISO 14067:2018 - Greenhouse gases — Carbon footprint of products
GHG removal
Reference: 3.1.2.6
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 removal event, atmospheric-removal claim, storage or sink record, claim boundary, quantity, duration assumption, monitoring evidence, and relationship to product-footprint reporting.
Greenhouse gas removal is a removal-claim boundary control: the evidence consequence is that claims about atmospheric removal can be separated from avoided emissions, purchased offsets, and ordinary emission reductions.