Climatiq Guides
Here you will find a variety of guides.
- Tutorials are learning-oriented and take you through parts of the Climatiq product, while teaching you underway
- How-to's are goal-oriented and teach you how to solve a concrete problem
- The Understand section dives into deeper explanation and help you understand the Climatiq product and the sustainability space better
Tutorials
Make your first CO2e estimate with the Climatiq API.
Easily utilize the Climatiq capabilities through custom functions from within Excel without any engineering skills required.
Benefit from custom formulas in Google Sheets to easily calculate emissions for a wide range of business activities.
Upload and use any emission factors you like in the API, right alongside the validated datasets currently available.
Climatiq can help you calculate the carbon footprint of your cloud usage for the big three cloud providers. Read more here.
Learn how you can use standard industry classification codes to automatically calculate your carbon emissions.
The Custom Mapping tool and endpoint makes it easy perform emission estimates using your own identifiers.
Figure out how Climatiq surfaces lifecycle assessments in the database and which one is relevant to your use case.
How to use Climatiq to calculate emissions for freight transportation covering several different modalities, such as air, sea, rail and road.
How-Tos
An API token is only a few clicks away. Click here if you're not sure how to get one.
Use our Postman Collection to send example API requests.
The Climatiq API can be used with any programming language, but here are a few handy snippets to help you get started with Python, including how to use Climatiq within a Jupyter notebook.
Step-by-step instructions on how to narrow down your search and get exactly the emission factors you're looking for using metadata (such as sources or regions) in Climatiq's database.
Understand
Wondering exactly what an emission factor is? Read an introductory guide here.
Understand the concept of Activity ID, what is it for and how it relates to emission factors.
Need a little primer on the ways CO2e for an activity is calculated from constituent gases? Look no further.
Climatiq sometimes finds emission factors that have data quality issues. See how we handle this, and what information we pass on to our API users.
Learn what lifecycle asssessments are and how they can apply to your carbon estimates.
Climatiq works with over 40 currencies. Read here to learn about how we handle conversion rates and more.
A guide on how to calculate scope 3.1 (purchased goods and services) emissions.
How Climatiq uses data versions to let you choose between stability and recency of results.
How Climatiq versions its API, and how long you have to upgrade when a new version is released.
Find out how to select the right emission factor(s) for valid estimations of emissions from electricity usage.
Guidance on the methodologies of estimating scope 3 fuel and energy related activities.
Understand how Climatiq calculate emissions produced from travel by car, airplane, train, and hotel stays.
Understand how our Freight endpoint allows emission estimation and reporting in compliance with ISO 14083:2023
Guidance on Biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and how to report them using Climatiq.
Understand fuel activity_ids and how to find the right fuel emission factor for your estimation.