Calculate Embedded Emissions for Unwrought Aluminium (HS7601)

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Payable emissions (tCO₂e/t)

Total CBAM Cost (€)

Notes:
There may be a difference when calculating the price with respect to import volume, carbon price, and benchmark emissions, as the embedded formula may result in minor variations due to decimal rounding. Therefore, the actual value may vary.

CBAM is applicable to trade volumes starting from 50 metric tonnes. For trade volumes below 50 metric tonnes, CBAM does not apply.

Usage Procedure – How to use the CBAM Calculator Sheet

Enter or update values only in the INPUT
PARAMETERS section (Highlighted in blue) , including
the carbon price, benchmark emissions, CBAM
chargeable percentage (as per the phase-in year),
and imported quantity.

The system will automatically calculate the payable
emissions and the total CBAM cost (€) based on the
inputs provided.

Notes:
• Change any input value to automatically update CBAM cost.
• Formula used: Carbon price × payable emissions × quantity.
• Model aligned with CBAM supplier-side illustrative methodology.

10 APRIL 2023 AL CIRCLE

Google will soon strengthen its ‘Search Engine’ with AI

EDITED BY : SOUMYADIP CHAKRABORTY 2MINS READ

In the face of the competition from AI-enabled chatbot ChatGPT from OpenAI and Microsoft’s BingAI, Google is now responding with its characteristic agility and innovation. It has been adding a number of features to its search engine and also launched BARD, the conversational chatbot from Google, powered by LaMDA. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai has recently revealed that soon the market leader in Search Engine is going to launch a number of new AI-powered features. Such features are going to make the results more contextual and in line with the requirement of the users.

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In his recent interview with Wall Street Journal, Pichai, who also heads Alphabet, mentioned that adding AI features will supercharge the Search Engine’s capability to find the required information. He also dismissed any possibility that the Search Engine is under any threat in the face of the recent conversational chatbots.

Google is well-known for its advances related to AI. It had already included many features in its search engines which helped billions of people worldwide have better search experiences. Google also created BERT, one of the first transformer models in the world, which was revolutionary in understanding the intricacies of human languages.

According to Pichai, Google's recent technologies like LaMDA, PaLM, Imagen and MusicLM will create entirely new ways to engage with information – from language and images to video and audio. "We're working to bring these latest AI advancements into our products, starting with Search," Pichai had informed earlier this year in February in a blog post on AI and Search.

Globally a substantial percentage of aluminium companies use Gmail and Google searches. Many have also tasted OpenAI’s ChatGPT in searching for information and access to knowledge over the last few months. Hence, the aluminium industry and the metal and mining sector as a whole will also be influenced by such technical developments.

In the middle of the ongoing debates and concerns over the future of mankind and AI research, Google has already started testing its AI tools on its emailing platform Gmail. While the future will unravel the next steps, for now, the technology space is getting more and more interesting with such developments.

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