Carbon border compliance,
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CBAM is the EU's way of making imported goods carry the same carbon cost that EU-made goods already do. If you bring certain high-carbon materials into the EU, you pay for the emissions created when they were made — so cheaper, dirtier imports can't undercut cleaner European production.

Six groups for now: iron and steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, hydrogen and electricity — plus many products made mainly from them. The EU has said it plans to widen this to more goods from 2028, so it's worth checking even if you're not affected today.

Maybe not. If everything you import in covered goods adds up to 50 tonnes or less across the whole year, you're exempt — that's the threshold built in to spare smaller importers (it doesn't apply to hydrogen or electricity). Go over 50 tonnes and you're in scope. The first thing the tool helps you do is work out which side of that line you're on.

CBAM's real phase started on 1 January 2026. In plain steps: register as an authorised importer, find out the emissions behind the goods you bring in, and from now on those imports build up a cost you'll settle later with CBAM certificates. Your first yearly declaration — covering everything you imported in 2026 — is due by 30 September 2027.

You buy CBAM certificates to match the emissions of what you imported, then hand them in once a year. Their price follows the EU's carbon market, so it moves over time. Certificate sales open in February 2027, and you surrender them by 30 September each year. The tool keeps a running total of what you'll owe, so you can budget for it instead of being caught out.

If you don't hand in enough certificates to cover your imports, there's a penalty of €100 for every tonne of CO₂ you're short — and you still owe the underlying cost. Keeping clean, verifiable records is the simplest way to avoid that, and that's what the tool is built around.

It turns CBAM from a scattered spreadsheet-and-email job into one guided workflow. It helps you spot which of your imports are in scope, reach out to suppliers and gather their emissions data, calculate the emissions behind each good, keep track of the certificates and cost you're building up, and produce the declaration you'll need to file — all in one place, with a clear record behind every number. In practice that can cut the time spent on CBAM reporting by up to 90% compared with handling it manually across spreadsheets and email.

No. You don't need to be a carbon accountant or a CBAM specialist. The tool walks you through each step, applies the EU's calculation rules behind the scenes, and clearly flags what's still missing — so your team can handle CBAM without hiring in expert help just to get started.

Your CBAM data sits in your own secure account, and the outputs are built to slot into the rest of your compliance process — the figures line up with the carbon and Scope 3 data you already collect, and the declaration comes out in a ready-to-file format. If you need it connected more deeply to your existing systems, that's handled through the wider Yodiwo EnGage platform — bring it up in your demo and we'll walk through the options.

There's no long setup — you can begin mapping your imports and inviting suppliers straight away. How fast you reach a finished declaration mostly comes down to how quickly your suppliers return verified emissions data, which is exactly why the tool helps you start that outreach early. Book a demo and we'll map a realistic timeline to your situation.