How do I check a low carbon aluminium claim from a UAE smelter?
Ask what the number covers, how the low carbon power is proven and who checked it. A figure per tonne is only comparable if it states the boundary, the power source with certificates retired for that metal, and whether it is mass balance or physically separate production.
Questions to ask
- Boundary: smelting only, or cradle to gate including alumina and anodes?
- Power: which certificates or contracts, retired in whose name, for which period?
- Allocation: does the claim move renewable power onto one product line by mass balance?
- Assurance: who verified it, and against which standard?
CBAM is a separate number
Aluminium is charged on direct emissions only, so renewable power does not change the CBAM figure. A low carbon claim helps your Scope 3, not your importer's certificates.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads your electricity bills and fuel invoices into Scope 1 and 2 records with the factor and source on each line, the site data a buyer questionnaire starts from. It does not produce verified product footprints or fill a buyer's portal for you.
Sources: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance, ISO (ISO 14067, ISO/IEC 30134), CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated
Last reviewed 2026-10-21.