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While the mechanism is essential for EU climate goals, many importers and suppliers struggle with practical implementation. Our supplier focused solution is available to our partners to replace cumbersome excel sheets and email communication.

Understanding and quantifying emissions are critical to minimize environmental impacts. Emissions typically refer to gases and other substances that are released to the air, and product specific emissions are those emissions that are associated with a product. Three relevant methodologies that exist to quantify product specific emissions that this article will focus on are product carbon footprints (PCF), life cycle assessments (LCA), and the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). These methods provide a systematic and consistent way of measuring the emissions of a product using fundamental science-based principles. LCA’s and PCF’s can be applied to any product and are not mandated by law, whereas the CBAM methodology is currently only applied to a specified list of CBAM goods and its application is mandated by European law to importers of those goods into the EU. This begs the question, why perform an LCA or PCF if it is not mandated by law?

The EU is currently engaged in major discussions and proposals to restructure its sustainability regulations. This includes merging the EU Taxonomy, CSRD, and CSDDD into one omnibus regulation, aiming to reduce bureaucracy, particularly for SMEs. We provide our perspective on the latest developments.

Forward Earth has successfully secured €4.5 million in seed funding to accelerate its global growth. The funding round, led by Mosaic Ventures, which has a strong presence in both the U.S. and Europe, is seen as an ideal partnership for the company's next growth phase. This fresh capital comes just three months after Forward Earth aims to address the sharply rising global demand for its AI-powered environmental management software.

The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is an EU carbon tariff on imports to equalize carbon prices between imports and domestic production, preventing carbon leakage. It starts fully in 2026, initially covering products like cement, iron, steel, and aluminum, with mandatory reporting from 2023