Our comprehensive guidebook and sample compliance toolkit are designed to assist your business in understanding, preparing for, and navigating the CBAM.
Purchase Package - $497The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a landmark climate measure that will impact businesses globally.
CBAM is a tariff on carbon-intensive products imported into the European Union. Its goal is to prevent 'carbon leakage' – where EU companies move carbon-intensive production to countries with laxer environmental rules, or EU products are replaced by more carbon-intensive imports. It ensures that the carbon price of imports is equivalent to the carbon price of domestic EU production.
CBAM will affect EU importers and non-EU producers of covered goods (initially cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, and hydrogen). Businesses need to understand their obligations, track embedded emissions, and prepare for new reporting and potential financial liabilities to ensure continued market access and avoid penalties.
Reporting obligations for embedded emissions in imported goods. No financial payments required during this phase.
Full CBAM rules apply. EU importers must declare annual emissions and surrender the corresponding number of CBAM certificates.
Businesses will purchase and surrender the first CBAM certificates for emissions reported during the 2026 calendar year.
Access our detailed guidebook and a comprehensive toolkit with sample templates, designed to help simplify CBAM understanding for your business.
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This comprehensive, over 150-page guidebook offers an in-depth exploration of the regulation, practical considerations for compliance, strategic insights for business adaptation, and explanations of complex requirements.
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It further details sector-specific implications, step-by-step considerations for emissions calculation, strategies for engaging stakeholders, and long-term planning for certificate management.
A suite of sample practical, illustrative templates and tools designed to help you understand how to approach CBAM data collection, reporting, and internal processes.
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Our resources aim to help your business navigate CBAM more effectively and understand how to approach regulatory challenges.
Gain clarity on EU regulations, understand reporting timelines, and learn about potential penalties with our detailed guidance and sample checklists.
Explore the potential financial implications and learn about planning for CBAM certificate purchases (from 2027) to better manage your carbon-related cost considerations.
Learn how to proactively address CBAM requirements for your export operations to the EU and understand how to approach potential disruptions.
Our sample toolkit is designed to help you understand how to establish data collection processes, which are important for upcoming third-party verification requirements.
Utilize the insights from our materials to inform your business strategy, identify potential considerations, and understand how to approach your sustainability profile in the EU market.
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CBAM stands for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. It's an EU policy that puts a price on carbon emissions embedded in certain goods imported into the EU. Essentially, it aims to ensure that imported products face the same carbon cost as those produced within the EU, preventing 'carbon leakage'.
Initially, CBAM covers imports in the following sectors: cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, and hydrogen. Our guidebook provides detailed information on specific product codes (CN codes) covered under these categories.
CBAM primarily affects importers of covered goods into the EU. However, it also has significant implications for non-EU producers and exporters who supply these goods to the EU market, as they will need to provide emissions data to their EU importers.
If you export CBAM-covered goods to the EU, you will be indirectly affected. Your EU customers (the importers) will require detailed information from you about the embedded carbon emissions in your products. Preparing this data accurately and efficiently will be crucial for maintaining your business relationships.
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The definitive (payment) phase of CBAM begins on January 1, 2026. EU importers will need to purchase and surrender CBAM certificates corresponding to the embedded emissions of goods imported during the 2026 calendar year. The first deadline for surrendering these certificates is May 31, 2027. Our guidebook provides an overview of the timeline and explains the described process for purchasing and surrendering certificates.