Greenhouse Gases—Quantification Requirements and Methods for the Carbon Footprint of Products—Coal Products (Draft for Comments)

Applicable to coal production enterprises, coal processing enterprises, and integrated coal production and processing enterprises, this document covers carbon footprint quantification, information exchange, and related management for raw coal and processed coal products. It specifies one tonne of as-received coal product as the declared unit and covers the system boundary from coal production, transport, and processing to factory gate. It requires life-cycle inventory analysis, data quality assessment, emission allocation, carbon footprint calculation, result interpretation, and reporting. Enterprises should prioritize representative primary data and handle multi-product outputs, coal mine gas utilization, waste resource utilization, and green electricity in accordance with the requirements to avoid double counting. Public disclosure of carbon footprint information should be complete, traceable, and verifiable.