Shanghai sets “ruler” for product carbon footprint
From production, use to disposal, how much greenhouse gases will be emitted during the "full life cycle" of a product? This requires professional carbon footprint certification of the product.
On June 5, the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Market Regulation launched the "Product Carbon Footprint Certification" pilot and released the first batch of 11 product category rule acceptance lists. Starting from the product certification side, it will provide important assistance for Shanghai to achieve the "double carbon" goal.
"Product Carbon Footprint Certification" is a third-party certification body with professional qualifications that verifies the company's greenhouse gas emission management capabilities and specific product emissions and removals in the overall production and operation process based on relevant standards, and issues a certification certificate. conformity assessment activities.
The core of achieving the "dual carbon" goal is to control the total amount of carbon emissions. Therefore, it is particularly important to find out the bottom line of carbon emissions and accurately measure greenhouse gas emissions. However, due to different measurement or accounting methods, different third-party agencies have different carbon emission audit results for the same product.
The release of the first batch of 11 product category rule acceptance lists is to solve "pain points" such as inconsistent certification gestures and lack of credibility, which is equivalent to providing a credible "ruler" for related products and industries.
Tian Yilong, Director of the Certification Supervision and Management Department of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Regulation, introduced that previously, the Shanghai Market Supervision Department took the lead in unifying the work posture of "product carbon footprint certification" in key industries such as steel. On this basis, it guided the Yangtze River Delta Green Certification Alliance The first batch of 11 product category rule acceptance lists were released, including key export products such as steel, electric passenger vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells, as well as household consumer goods such as furniture and pasteurized milk, and solved the problem of product carbon emission accounting. Key core issues such as what to count, how to count and how to calculate accurately provide guarantees for upstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain to accurately connect with international standards and rules.
"'Product Carbon Footprint Certification' can make the carbon emissions of products from production, storage, transportation, circulation to scrapping 'traceable'." Tian Yilong said that through certification, products can obtain a "physical examination report" of carbon emissions throughout the life cycle. ” will encourage enterprises to better plan product production models, adjust development directions in a timely manner, and move more steadily and further on the road to sustainable development, green and low-carbon development.
