The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism turns the carbon embedded in imported steel, cement, aluminium and electricity into a real cost. This tool shows that cost, and where it is lower, before you sign a supply contract.
It leans on one open dataset whose numbers already line up with the regulation, plus a dated snapshot of the EU's own figures. No emissions modelling of our own.
The reason this works with no derivation: Climate TRACE reports each facility's factor in the exact unit CBAM cares about.
emissionsFactor = 1.9 "t of CO2e_100yr per t of steel"
= embedded-emissions intensity, CBAM's unit
So a plant's dot on the map is its CBAM intensity. Green is a clean plant, red is a carbon-heavy one, and the dot's size is its total yearly emissions, so you see both how dirty per tonne and how big.
Click a plant and you compare three intensities. Example, Turkish steel:
The country average is not a plain mean, it is activity-weighted: each plant's factor is weighted by how much it actually produces, so a country that is mostly clean plants reads clean.
country_average = sum(factor_i * activity_i) / sum(activity_i)
The EU default is deliberately conservative, the punitive figure you file when you cannot prove better. Beating it is the whole point of sourcing on carbon. Defaults are per origin and per product, and the published figure carries a mark-up on top that rises each year, 10% in 2026 and 30% from 2028. Turkish steel is 2.310 t/t in the annex, so 2.541 t/t is what an importer actually files this year.
Intensity becomes a bill through the CBAM cost formula:
embedded = intensity * shipment_tonnes cbam_cost = embedded * (ets_price - origin_price) * phase_in_factor
For a 1000 t Turkish steel shipment, filing the EU default versus buying from the electric-arc plant on the map:
A €3,850 saving on one shipment, purely from where you source. The same shipment from a blast-furnace plant at 1.9 t/t saves only €1,202, so the process route is most of the money. The Compare origins button runs this across major producing countries at once.
The single biggest driver of a plant's carbon is how it makes the good.
Climate TRACE tags each plant's route (assetType), and we translate it
into the decarbonisation lever a buyer or supply-chain team cares about: