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Emission factor from EXIOBASE v3.8.2 Product table

Precious metals Ireland

Per euro spent · Cradle to gate · 2015–2025

Each euro spent in 2025 counts as 0.725 kg CO₂e up to the producer's gate.

Value for spend in 2025

0.725kgCO₂e/EUR

Basic price · 2025 euros · Input-output total · GWP100 · AR5

2025
Default: the latest year−1% on 2024

Re-priced by open-climate.ai from 2019 euros with the Ireland price index

EXIOBASE prints this activity in two tables

The product table counts one unit of the product, whichever industry makes it. The industry table counts one unit of the industry's output, whatever it makes. For something you bought, the product table is usually the one to use.

Region
Ireland IE
Boundary
Cradle to gate
Data quality
LowRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Share-alike · CC BY-SA 4.0

Where 0.725 comes from

Re-priced by open-climate.ai to 2025 euros

EXIOBASE publishes 0.846 in 2019 euros. open-climate.ai restates it in 2025 euros with the Ireland price index: 0.846 × 0.857 = 0.725.

Reporting this euro under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 0.725

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

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Materials › Metals · Ireland · per EUR · Average

Cradle to gate · Input-output total · AR5

Boundary
Cradle to gate
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy, business travel, overheads and services and imported inputs
GWP method
IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
As printed by EXIOBASE · impact method IPCC AR5 direct
CO₂e basis
Input-output total
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered

Low quality · Copyleft licence · 2025

One footprint, in every year's money

EXIOBASE priced this supply chain in 2019 euros. For every other year we restate the same emissions with the Ireland price index, so a euro you spent in 2015 is read at 2015 prices. Pick the year of your spend.

kgCO₂e/EUR by year of spend. Pick a year to read it.
  • Published by EXIOBASE, 2019 euros
  • Re-priced with the Ireland price index
  • Default

Which price, and which warming horizon

Match the price to your invoice, and keep one warming horizon across your whole inventory.

Purchaser price or producer price

The purchaser price is what you paid: the producer's price plus the wholesale and retail margins and the transport to the shop. EXIOBASE publishes basic prices, the producer's side.

Warming horizon and characterisation model

EXIOBASE publishes this factor in 7 sets of model, report and horizon. Every other cell: not published.

4 of 9 cells
Precious metals · IrelandEXIOBASE · kgCO₂e/EUR, basic price
Values by warming horizon and characterisation model, spend in 2025
IPCC AR4 2007IPCC AR5 2013IPCC AR6 2021
GWP20 20 yearsIPCC AR4 2007
IPCC AR5 2013 Not publishedIPCC AR6 2021 Not published
GWP100 100 yearsIPCC AR4 2007
IPCC AR5 2013
IPCC AR6 2021 Not published
GWP500 500 yearsIPCC AR4 2007
IPCC AR5 2013 Not publishedIPCC AR6 2021 Not published

IPCC AR5 direct · AR5 · 100 years: 0.725 kgCO₂e/EUR, re-priced to 2025 euros. The default for this factor. The horizon inventories report in. Pick one set and use it across your whole inventory.

What this number covers

The supply chain behind one euro spent, up to the factory gate: every tier counted in one total, none reported alone.

  1. Upstream

    • Imported inputs
    • Inbound transport
    • Raw materials
    • Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
    In the total

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Packaging
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    In the total

  3. Also counted

    • Business travel
    • Overheads and services
    In the total

  4. Your bill

    1 EUR of output at basic prices, before taxes and trade margins. The factor is per EUR here.

    = 0.725

Outside this boundary

  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Outbound transport
  • Retail
  • Use phase
  • End of life
  • Recycling credit
  • Capital goods: buildings, equipment
  • Staff commuting

EXIOBASE leaves investment out of its supply chains. A capital good you buy is reported under Scope 3, category 2, with its own factor.

From EXIOBASE's record to a comparable factor

EXIOBASE publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

About this factor

EXIOBASE gives no description for this factor. Filed under Manufacturing › Manufacture of basic metals.

Source and licence

Publisher
EXIOBASE
Library
EXIOBASE v3.8.2
Record
C_PREM|IE · product and region
Published
21 October 2021
Open the record at EXIOBASE
CC BY-SA 4.0 Copyleft

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Credit it with this lineEXIOBASE 3 (Stadler et al.), CC BY-SA 4.0
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

Cite this factor

EXIOBASE 3 (Stadler et al.), CC BY-SA 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/exiobase/ (CC BY-SA 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-exiobase-precious_metals-ie-eur-cradle_to_gate-298ea7fa/?v=efv1-94677bbb7c6948a6bebc19f28edbf83b_2025

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