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Carbon Minds

119651 Factors119651 Factor
224 Regions224 Region
1932 Activities1932 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 V2.02

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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
2025
Geography
Multiple regions
Sector
Type of data
Activity-based
Emission results
CO2e
Data Transformation
NA

License

PropertyValue
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)
Methodology
Some emission factors contain a positive (rather than negative) value for biogenic CO2 removals as the production method avoids the burden of carboncapture in the supply chain. Some other contain a negative (rather than positive) value for biogenic emissions as the production method avoids the burden of biogenic emissions in the supply chain.

Methodology

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IPCC AR method
  • AR6
LCA boundary
  • cradle_to_gate
Scope applicability
  • 3.1
Emissions breakdown
  • Biogenic (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic (ISO14067) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic CO2
  • Biogenic emissions (ISO14067) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Biogenic removals (ISO14067) (CO2e, AR6)
  • Carbon content
  • Fossil (CO2e, AR6)
  • Land use (CO2e, AR6)
  • Total (CO2e, AR6)
Methodology description

Carbon Minds provides data following two methodologies: IPCC 2021 (excluding biogenic CO2) and ISO14067. All datasets are based on the attributional LCA approach and the methodology defined in the cm.chemicals methodology document. See https://www.carbon-minds.com/products/data/carbon-footprint-and-lca-data/ to download the methodology.

Climatiq currently offers the indicators that correspond directly to those provided by the source:

  • fossil
  • biogenic
  • land use change

We also provide source field "bioCarbonContent" in the PCF endpoint.

The land use change field includes only emissions from land-use change. Any relevant emissions from land use or management are within the "biogenic" field.

Limitation / key issues to note

Some emission factors use the "avoided burden" approach for co-products, resulting in negative fossil emissions. See the individual descriptions for which are affected. These are not suitable for corporate reporting under scope 3.1.

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