# What records show that charcoal for Minas Gerais pig iron comes from planted eucalyptus?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/eucalyptus-charcoal-records-for-pig-iron-buyers

Keep, for each delivery, the plantation it came from, the forest management plan or certification, the official forest origin transport document, and the tonnes and carbon content. Without that trail a buyer or verifier will treat the charcoal carbon as fossil, which can multiply the pig iron figure several times.

## For each charcoal delivery

- Supplier and the plantation or land parcel, with ownership or lease documents.
- The forest origin transport record issued for the load.
- Weighbridge tonnage and a carbon content test, monthly at least.

## For the plantations

- A forest management plan showing replanting after harvest.
- FSC or another recognised certification, where held.
- Evidence the land was not cleared native forest.

## Why it decides the number

Charcoal is the main reductant in these blast furnaces. Counted as sustainable biomass its CO2 can be rated zero; counted as fossil it becomes the largest source in the figure.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads coal, coke, gas and electricity invoices and production records into a dated, fingerprinted record per site, so the direct emissions behind each tonne can be traced to the documents. Emissions factors outside India are entered from the official source and labelled.

- [Charcoal pig iron and CBAM](https://senseible.earth/answers/charcoal-pig-iron-minas-gerais-cbam-zero)
- [Pig iron and sponge iron in CBAM](https://senseible.earth/answers/are-pig-iron-and-sponge-iron-covered-by-cbam)
- [Charcoal making methane](https://senseible.earth/answers/charcoal-kiln-methane-pig-iron-footprint)

Sources: [CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2621, CBAM default values](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2621/oj/eng), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.