Ratings & Policy
Find where a product credential earns points or counts, and what each rating tool or policy accepts.
Pick any rating tools or policies and any credentials. The results narrow to what you pick.
Australia and New Zealand
Which credential?
- Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
- BEP PVC
- BES 6001
- Blue Angel
- CARES Sustainable Constructional Steel
- Carpet Institute
- Climate Active
- Concrete Sustainability Council
- Cradle to Cradle Certified
- Declare
- Eco Choice Aotearoa
- EMICODE
- EPD
- EPD Australasia
- EU Ecolabel
- FSC
- GECA
- Global GreenTag
- Global Organic Textile Standard
- Global Responsible Textile Standard
- Green Seal
- Health Product Declaration
- International EPD System
- Living Product Challenge
- Nordic Swan
- PEFC
- Product Carbon Footprint
- Responsible Steel
- Responsible Wood
- SCS Standards
- Steel Sustainability Australia
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative
- UL GREENGUARD
- AFRDI Green Tick
- CDPH Standard Method
- CEN
- ISO
- LEVEL
- NaturePlus (GreenCollar)
- PACT
2 credentials, in NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot). Clear selection
Product Carbon Footprint
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Product Carbon Footprint
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot)Rating tool
10.4.2.1; 10.4.2.4 Finding stored biogenic carbon in a carbon footprint; 14.8.2
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- Product Carbon Footprint
- Edition named
- ISO 14067 or PAS 2050
- On what basis
- GHG biogenic removals
- Products
- Timber and paper materials
- Scope
- Counts toward the Carbon Removal Indicator only
- Conditions
- carbon footprint conforms to 9.4.4.1 (“compliant” (NABERS’s word) with ISO 14067 or PAS 2050; system boundary “equivalent” to EN 15804 or ISO 21930; refers directly to the material by unique product name or code; independently “verified”, verifier not involved in defining scope or conducting the LCA; dated within five years before the last delivery of the product to site)
- timber or paper material only
- confirms the material is from a sustainably managed source certified by FSC, or by Responsible Wood as part of PEFC
- use the GHG biogenic removals value
- if not reported separately, estimate using 10.4.3
- Source
- NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot) · p. 68, 70, 94
9.4.2 a); 9.4.4.1 Conforming carbon footprint declarations; 9.4.4.2
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- ISO 14067 or PAS 2050 (Related documents list ISO 14067:2018)
- Edition named
- Related documents list ISO 14067:2018
- On what basis
- GHG total emissions, modules A1-A3, entered as GWPT
- Products
- Any included material
- Scope
- Overrides the default emission factor for that material; modules A1-A3
- Conditions
- follows ISO 14067 or PAS 2050
- system boundary matches the EN 15804 or ISO 21930 boundary
- names the material by unique product name or code
- independently “verified” (NABERS’s word) by a verifier not involved in defining the scope or conducting the LCA study
- dated within five years before the last delivery of the product to site
- unit matches the unit selected in the input form
- Source
- NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot) · p. 9, 53, 61, 62
Responsible Wood
Where it earns points or counts, rating tool by rating tool. About Responsible Wood
Credit names, credential names and conditions are in each rating tool's or policy's own words, shown where its publisher's terms allow.
NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot)Rating tool
10.4.1; 10.4.4 (default emission factor); 14.8.2
- Status
- Accepted with conditions
- Named as
- Responsible Wood
- Edition named
- Not stated by the tool
- Products
- Timber and paper materials
- Scope
- Stored biogenic carbon in the Carbon Removal Indicator only
- Conditions
- timber or paper material only
- Responsible Wood certification as part of PEFC
- retain certification details including licence number
- where an EPD states the certified share, at least 95 % is acceptable
- with a default emission factor, select 'sustainable forest certified' in the input form
- Source
- NABERS Embodied Carbon v2.1 (pilot) · p. 68, 72, 94