This module is designed to assess the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by your products after their sale, throughout their life cycle, up to the final customer or through intermediate processes. It is relevant in cases where your company sells products whose use leads to GHG emissions.
This module does not take into account the end-of-life treatment of sold products, which is assessed in a separate module titled "End-of-life treatment of Sold Products."
Products Concerned
The products covered by this module can vary and include, but are not limited to, electronic devices, vehicles, clothing, and other consumer goods that consume energy (electricity, fuel, gasoline) during their use.
Data Required
To accurately assess the emissions of sold products, you need to provide the following information:
Quantity of Products Sold: The number of units of each product sold during the reporting year.
Energy Consumption over the Product's Lifetime: An estimate of the total amount of energy consumed by the product over its life. This includes:
The type of energy consumed (electricity, fuel, gasoline).
The amount of energy consumed, expressed in kWh for electricity or in kWh or liters for fuels.
Estimation of Lifetime Emissions: You must estimate the emissions generated by your products throughout their lifetime. This estimation must be based on clear assumptions and a scenario you define to obtain an accurate assessment. Transparency in the methodology used is crucial.
Step-by-step guide
Select the appropriate section based on your available data (electricity, fuel & gas (in kWh), fuel & gas (in Volume))
Click the "+ Add Row" button
Select the "Type" of energy consumed. If you are in the "electricity" section, the Type corresponds to the country where you sell your products, you can also choose a world region (e.g., Europe). If you are in the "fuel and gas" section, select the type of fuel or gas consumed by your products.
Enter the amount of energy consumed by your sold products over their estimated lifetime. You must enter a value in kWh or L.
Use Case Examples
Car Seats: A company manufactures car seats and estimates that these seats represent 2% of the car's weight. It therefore accounts for 2% of the car's fuel consumption over its lifetime. If a car consumes 12,000 liters of gasoline over its lifetime, then the company needs to enter the amount: Number of seats sold * 2% * 12,000 L. If it has sold 1,000 seats during the year, it must enter 240,000 liters of gasoline into the module.
T-shirts: A company manufactures t-shirts and estimates that a t-shirt is washed on average 100 times over its lifetime. It needs to estimate the amount of electricity used for one washing machine cycle, then multiply this value by 100 to determine the energy consumed over the t-shirt’s lifetime. A class A washing machine consumes 1.33 kWh per wash. Therefore, the company must enter 100 * 1.33 * Number of t-shirts sold during the year, which is 133,000 kWh of electricity consumed for 1,000 products sold.