About Trustbase Lab

An independent, third-party industry data infrastructure: not the biggest database — the most verifiable layer.

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Data as_of 2026-10-13 · schema 1.10 · MCP v1.15.5

How this site grew

2026-09-17rCB core data tables generated (substitution / price / index modules)
2026-09-19Methodology v4 published; raw-material index upgraded to a global basis
2026-10-12data.json exported at schema 1.9 / data v0.12 (2,415 records)
2026-10-12The Citable Facts Specification v0.1 published (CC BY 4.0)
2026-10-12Corrections archive goes live (3 real corrections)
2026-10-13OWID-style template preview (/_mockup/owid/)
2026-10-13OWID-style master template rolled out site-wide (166 URLs)
2026-10-13MCP server v1.15.5 released (59 tools · fitness domain added)

How this site grew

Every date maps to an auditable artefact — generated_at stamps, changelogs, <code>exported_at</code>, live <code>/standard/</code> and <code>/corrections/</code> pages, MCP <code>serverInfo.version</code>. Not a founding story: a version record.

Source: Trustbase Lab module metadata · data.json exported_at · live /standard /corrections /mcp · as_of 2026-10-13

Anchor: #fig-en-about-timeline · trustbaselab.com/en/about/

Independence: commitments

These are commitments of conduct, not claims of fact — conduct can be publicly checked at any time, whereas a false claim of fact is a misstatement.

Commitment 1

We do not trade in end-of-life tyres, pyrolysis oil or rCB

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Commitment 2

We do not recommend or endorse any supplier or buyer

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Commitment 3

No paid rankings, no paid ratings

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Commitment 4

We accept no sponsorship or commission intended to influence data or conclusions

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Commitment 5

Errors are corrected in public; nothing is silently edited

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Commitment 6

No deal brokering, no resale of third-party data, no tailored-basis promises

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By the numbers

2,415structured records

6topic pages

59MCP tools

98citable assertions

3public corrections

166URLs site-wide

64figures

CC BY 4.0specification licence

Cite & reuse

Cite this work

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Whole page

Trustbase Lab, About (English site, batch E), as_of 2026-10-13

For the page or any figure on it; to cite a single fact, use a record-level string below.

Record level

Trustbase Lab, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), record ID rcb-pol-001, as_of 2026-10, confidence A, source: European Commission

European Commission · Carbon pricing · In force (from 2026-01-01)

Machine-readable

MCP: POST https://trustbaselab.com/mcp · tools/call get_benchmark {"id":"rcb-pol-001"} · fact set: https://trustbaselab.com/citations.json

Look up confidence / source / as_of by record ID — all records on this page can be verified this way.

Reuse this work

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Attribution: credit "Source: Trustbase Lab" and keep a link to https://trustbaselab.com/en/about/;
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