Research on emission factors

Studies we ran on emission factors and the ways inventories use them. Each one is dated and signed, states its sample and its limits, and stays as it was published: a later study supersedes it rather than editing it.

The rules we apply today live in Methodology, which links the research behind each choice. New studies also come out on the RSS feed.

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    How wrong are spend-based GHG estimates? We measured it

    We tested EXIOBASE, Open CEDA and USEEIO against 7,040 EPDs. Half the spend-based estimates were off by more than a factor of 2.

    Read the study