2025 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 80-86
1 Zeroboard Inc. The carbon footprint of products (CFP) has been used as a means of comprehensively and quantitatively indicating the impact of the product on climate change. However, it is too difficult to establish unified calculation methods, so it has not been used as a concrete legal regulation. Recently, as the information infrastructure for calculating CFP has been prepared and a rough consensus can be reached, a movement to use the calculation results in regulations has begun in Europe. Therefore, I have reviewed the contents of the following three European laws and regulations: 1) Carbon Boarder Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), 2) European Battery Regulation and 3) Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), and considered the measures that will be required in the future.
