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Emission factor from Boverket v02.07.000

Copper sheet, 51 % scrap-based

Sweden · EPD total · Any year

Each kilogram counts as 2.21 kg CO₂e: 1.98 up to the factory gate, 0.0989 for transport to site and 0.129 for construction waste (A5.1).

Value for any year

2.21kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR4

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

Boverket sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2026

Derived by open-climate.ai: the sum of Boverket's published parts

Region
Sweden SE
Boundary
EPD total
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · Boverket terms

Where 2.21 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

Σ 2.21: Boverket prints the three parts separately; open-climate.ai adds them up.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 2.11 Scope 3, category 4 0.0989

Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.

Delivery to you is category 4, upstream transport.

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Materials › Metals · Sweden · per kg · Generic

EPD total · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR4

Boundary
EPD total
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy, installation and outbound transport
GWP method
IPCC AR4, 100-year horizon
As printed by Boverket
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: partly covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

What Boverket counts in the figure for one kilogram, phase by phase.

  1. Upstream

    • Transport to the plant
    • Raw materials
    • Fuel supply chain
    Included

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Packaging
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Included

  3. Downstream

    • Installation
    • Transport to the border
    Partly included

  4. Your record

    1 kg in your records. The factor is per kg.

    = 2.21

Outside this boundary

  • Retail

Boverket does not count any of this in the figure for one kilogram.

Gases

Boverket publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon out; methane from biogenic sources is counted.

From Boverket's record to a comparable factor

Boverket publishes the three parts; open-climate.ai added them up to this total. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

The total and its parts

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You are here · the totalCopper sheet, 51 % scrap-based, EPD total2.21
Cradle to gateScope 3, cat. 11.9889.7% of the totalOpenTransport to siteScope 3, cat. 40.09894.5% of the totalOpenconstruction waste (A5.1)Scope 3, cat. 10.1295.8% of the totalOpen

About this factor

From Boverket

What it is

The greatest influence of the environmental impacts comes from extraction of the raw materials used (ores, concentrates). Copper concentrations in naturally occurring ores are typically between 0.2 and 2.5 %. Geologically, copper is associated with other valuable and precious metals. Since their natural concentrations are much lower, the ore needs careful treatment to maximize recovery yields. Modern mining techniques require less energy than in the past, making the recovery of small amounts of metal more viable. The first stage of ore extraction and processing are the main contributors to GWP-GHG A1-A3. The metal produced from ores and concentrates is referred to as primary copper production. Metal can also be produced by recycling the scrap generated during the operations of the downstream value chain, as well as from end-of-life products.

What it includes

Copper is produced based on technical specifications that are normally possible to achieve with primary as well as secondary resources.

Where it applies

Copper sheets are commonly used for various purposes, including roof and wall cladding. Several relevant EPDs are available for copper products. Many of the EPDs are corporate/company specific values but also generally applicable because those represent several product types. When the difference in environmental impact vary too much for a product type and metal mix used the reported data are divided, but when an average use of primary and secondary metals are possible to define a single data set is reported.

Source and licence

Value
Summed by open-climate.ai from its parts
Publisher
Boverket (Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning)
Library
Boverket v02.07.000
Published
21 January 2026
See the source data at Boverket
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Källa: Boverket, Boverkets klimatdatabas version 02.07.000. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/boverket/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-boverket-kopparplat_51-se-kg-epd_total-aaee1d17/?v=efv1-b5870bac4adb328a1198fca439ae829f

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