Streamline your CBAM reporting
Prepare EU-ready CBAM reporting, engage suppliers to collect primary data, and calculate accurate emissions for imported goods.
About the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
Why does CBAM compliance matter?
The new CBAM policy is a carbon pricing mechanism that requires companies to report the embedded emissions of their products and buy CBAM certificates.
What are the challenges of CBAM reporting?
Collecting emissions data from all your suppliers is complex, time-consuming, and prone to errors. Ensuring accurate calculations and full compliance requires significant effort.
Why opt for CBAM software?
A CBAM-ready carbon management tool is an ideal approach for CBAM reporting as it helps you automate supplier data collection, ensures accurate calculations and prepares audit-ready emission reports.
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Save time on supplier data management
Automate the collection of primary data from your suppliers, eliminating manual processes and reducing the risk of errors. Invite them to calculate CBAM-relevant Product Carbon Footprint data and share custom emission factors.
Centralize and document data collection requests
Leverage a centralized supplier data request history to stay compliant when using average emission data. The platform keeps track of your requests so you can easily demonstrate attempts to collect primary data.
Automate CBAM-related emission calculations
Apply supplier-specific emissions factors and automatically calculate imported goods emissions data granularly. Differentiate between direct and indirect emissions.
Reduce CBAM certificate costs and optimize your supply chain
Use our built-in CBAM dashboard to monitor the evolution of your emissions and costs over time. Analyze supply chain hotspots to identify low-emissions suppliers for strategic cost optimization.
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Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
Gain insights on your product impact throughout the analysis of the emissions value chain and identify areas for improvement.
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Supplier Engagement (Scope 3)
Request data directly from your suppliers and improve Scope 3 emissions granularity and reporting.
Isa Kohn
The Cozero software is an essential tool for us to efficiently measure our emissions and target progress. It makes the data collection process much easier, as we can access the latest calculation methods and emission factors at any time. In view of increasing regulations, the decision to use a software solution was crucial in order to bundle resources and focus on the most important tasks.
Dr. Ulf Narloch
CBAM is a game changer for global supply chains. It brings implementation challenges for emissions reporting. But this new carbon transparency is an opportunity to shift towards greener, more competitive supply chains. With Cozero's solution and CO2 IQ services, companies can integrate accurate emissions data and decarbonization strategies to better manage CBAM costs and gain a competitive edge.
Christian Grosse
With Cozero’s technology we can provide our customers with detailed information on their emissions on every step and component of their international parcels' journey. This will help them to make smart choices and significantly reduce their GHG footprint.
Features to automate CBAM reporting
Frequently Asked Questions
Switching to low-carbon suppliers, decarbonizing your supply chain, and improving the energy efficiency of your imported goods can help reduce your CBAM costs. Leveraging CBAM credits from the country of origin can also provide relief.
You need detailed emissions data from the production process, including the carbon intensity of the goods you import. If actual data cannot be obtained, a record of attempts to collect it must be provided.
The transitional phase ran from 1 October 2023 to 31 December 2025, with quarterly reporting and no payment obligation. The definitive period started on 1 January 2026: companies importing more than 50 tonnes of CBAM goods per year must be authorised CBAM declarants (electricity and hydrogen have no threshold). CBAM certificates go on sale on 1 February 2027. The first annual CBAM declaration, covering 2026 imports, and the surrender of certificates are due by 30 September 2027, and by 30 September each year after that. From 2027, declarants must also hold certificates for at least 50% of their embedded emissions at the end of each quarter.
Free allocation in the EU ETS for CBAM sectors is phased out between 2026 and 2034, while the share of embedded emissions that requires CBAM certificates rises at the same pace. In July 2026, the Commission proposed extending this phase-out to 2038, and an extension of CBAM to downstream steel and aluminium products is being negotiated. Neither is law yet. Last updated: October 2026.
A CBAM report should include a quarterly breakdown of imported precursor quantity by CN codes, country of origin, production facility, and date of import (unlike in carbon accounting practices, the date of import is decisive, not the date of purchase). It should also contain the embedded direct and indirect emissions of the precursor, including emissions from the production processes (heating, cooling, electricity) as well as those from materials consumed in the production process. And finally, it needs to include information about any carbon price that has already been paid in the imported precursor’s country of origin.
The person who declares the importation of relevant goods inherits the CBAM reporting responsibility. This is typically the importer of goods but it can also be an indirect customs representative (e.g. when the importer is established outside of the European Union). Customs will inform importers of CBAM goods of their reporting obligations at the moment of import.
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