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224 Regions224 Region
2144 Activities2144 Activity

About Carbon Minds

Carbon Minds is a sustainability data and consulting organisation providing one of the largest life cycle assessment and product carbon footprint databases for chemicals and plastics.

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DATASET

cm.chemicals V2.03

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Description
Carbon Minds is a sustainability data and consulting organisation providing one of the largest life cycle assessment and product carbon footprint databases for chemicals and plastics.
Source type
Corporate
Original dataset URLURL
Year released
2026
Geography
Multiple regions
Sector
Type of data
Activity-based
Emission results
CO2e
Data Transformation
NA

License

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Type of license
Commercial license (purchased)

Data quality

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Data quality assurance

Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality

Quality flag(s)
NA

Methodology

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Standard
ISO 14067
IPCC AR method
  • AR6
LCA boundary
  • cradle_to_gate
Scope applicability
  • 3.1
Emissions breakdown
  • Biogenic (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic (ISO14067 with carbon correction) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic carbon content, kg C
  • Biogenic emissions (ISO14067 with carbon correction) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic removals (ISO14067 with carbon correction) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Fossil (CO2e, AR6)
  • Land use (CO2e, AR6)
  • Land use change emissions (CO2e, AR6)
  • Land use change removal (CO2e, AR6)
  • Total (CO2e, AR6)
  • Total (ISO14067 with carbon correction) (CO2e, AR6)
Methodology description

Carbon Minds V2.03 provides climate change data following three methodologies:

  • Carbon Minds (based on IPCC 2021 excl. biogenic)
  • Carbon Minds ISO 14067 (based on IPCC 2021 incl. biogenic)
  • Carbon Minds ISO 14067 with biogenic CO2 correction (based on IPCC 2021 incl. biogenic)

Climatiq uses data from two of these methodologies.

Carbon Minds (based on IPCC 2021 excl. biogenic) is used for the standard AR6 total excluding biogenic CO2, fossil emissions, direct land-use change emissions and removals, and biogenic CH4 emissions. This methodology excludes biogenic CO2 flows from the characterization of climate change impacts.

Carbon Minds ISO 14067 with biogenic CO2 correction (based on IPCC 2021 incl. biogenic) is used for the -1/+1 fields. This methodology accounts for biogenic emissions and removals and applies a biogenic CO2 correction to align the product's total climate impact with its biogenic carbon content. Biogenic emissions are equal to biogenic methane plus the release of CO2 stored in the product. Biogenic CO2 storage in the product is equal to the biogenic carbon content (see below) multiplied by 44/12.

For the -1/+1 methodology, Climatiq provides the total climate change impact as well as separate fossil, biogenic, and land-use change components. The biogenic component accounts for biogenic CO2 and CH4 emissions, biogenic CO2 removals, and the biogenic CO2 correction. Climatiq additionally separates this component into biogenic emissions and removals for use in the PCF endpoint.

The source field bioCarbonContent shows the biogenic carbon content of the product in kg carbon. This is provided in the PCF endpoint.

For FLAG reporting, Climatiq sets FLAG emissions equal to direct land-use change emissions and land-management emissions to zero. Carbon Minds excludes land-management-related emissions and removals because typical land-management practices are outside the system boundary of the assessed chemical product systems. Relevant soil organic carbon changes associated with land transformation are included within direct land-use change.

All datasets are based on the attributional LCA approach and the methodology defined in the cm.chemicals methodology document.

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