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Emission factor from DCE 2024

Wood and similar wood wastes - Paper, Pulp and Print

Denmark · Combustion · Any year

Each kilowatt-hour of this fuel counts as 0.00795 kg CO₂e from burning it. open-climate.ai worked this figure out from values published by DCE, for use in any year.

Value per kWh, net calorific value

0.00795kgCO₂e/kWh

Net calorific value · Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2024

Derived by open-climate.ai

Region
Denmark DK
Boundary
Combustion
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · DCE terms

Where 0.00795 comes from

Derived by open-climate.ai

open-climate.ai adds up the gases DCE publishes, each weighted by its warming potential.

Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 0.00795

You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.

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Fuels › Biofuels · Denmark · per kWh · Average

Combustion · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Combustion
Fuel combustion
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from DCE's method notes
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Split by gas

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one kilowatt-hour of this fuel, from the wood it is made from to your boiler.

  1. Your meter

    1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.

  2. Burning it

    In your boiler or stove: mostly CO₂ the wood took up as it grew, with a little CH₄ and N₂O

    0.00795

= 0.00795 per kWh

Outside this boundary

  • Producing and delivering the fuel
  • Making the boiler that burns it
  • Building the pipelines and the network

DCE counts only burning the fuel, not producing and delivering it or the things built to extract, move and burn it.

Gases

Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂

  • Biogenic CO₂0.37297.9%
  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.006881.8%
  • Biogenic methane (CH₄)0.001070.3%

Σ 0.00107 + 0.00688 + 0.372 = 0.380002, more than the 0.00795 total DCE prints.

Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.

From DCE's record to a comparable factor

DCE publishes the inputs; open-climate.ai computed this value from them. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

About this factor

From DCE

The CO2 emission factor for wood is an estimated avarage value based on the following CO2 emission factors: Firewood 98.7 kg/GJ, wood chips 105.6 kg/GJ and wood waste 99.7 kg/GJ. The different emission factors are based water content data for each of the wood types.

Source and licence

Value
Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
Publisher
DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University
Library
DCE 2024
Record
WOOD AND SIMIL.|031100
Published
2 January 2026
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Cite this factor

Source: DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, Aarhus University. Emission factors used in the Danish national emission inventories, 2024. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/dce_denmark/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-dcedenmark-wood_and_similar_wood-dk-kwh-combustion-72afd57d/?v=efv1-c0f5a67fb5277774d574ee6112ac1b99

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