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699 Factors699 Factor
86 Regions86 Region
482 Activities482 Activity

About GHG Protocol

The GHG Protocol is the de-facto standard-setting organisation for greenhouse-gas accounting. As well as producing guidance on estimating and categorising emissions, it also provides a set of the most commonly-used emission factors including energy consumption, transportation, waste management, and industrial processes.

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Datasets from GHG Protocol

GHG Emission Calculation Tool
IPCC Global Warming Potential Values
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GHG Emission Calculation Tool

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Description
The GHG Protocol is the de-facto standard-setting organisation for greenhouse-gas accounting. As well as producing guidance on estimating and categorising emissions, it also provides a set of the most commonly-used emission factors including energy consumption, transportation, waste management, and industrial processes.
Source type
Non-profit Organisation
Original dataset URLURL
Year released
2021
Geography
Multiple regions
Sector
Type of data
Activity-based
Emission results
CO2e - CO2 - CH4 - N2O
Data Transformation
The source reports emissions in gCO2e/kWh, which have been converted to kgCO2e/kWh to ensure consistency.

License

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Type of license
All material in this tool is provided by third parties. Please see the source information in the description for each emission factor.
License URLURL

Data quality

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Data quality assurance
Vetted by Climatiq. For further information on data quality assurance, see: https://www.climatiq.io/methodology#Data-Quality
Quality flag(s)
This dataset has been deprecated because multiple emission factors failed to meet our data validation standards. To maintain consistency with the original source, we are still including them for the sake of completeness.

Methodology

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IPCC AR method
  • AR4
  • AR5
LCA boundary
  • biogenic_co2_combustion
  • electricity_generation
  • fuel_combustion
  • fugitive_release
  • fugitive_release_non_kyoto
  • use_phase
Scope applicability
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3.4
  • 3.6
  • 3.7
  • 3.9
  • Outside of scopes
Emissions breakdown
  • Biogenic CO2
  • CH4
  • CO2
  • N2O
  • Other gases (CO2e, AR4)
  • Other gases (CO2e, AR5)
  • Total (CO2e, AR4)
  • Total (CO2e, AR5)

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