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Emission factor from ICM 2019

Black coal, WA, at mine

Australia · Upstream fuel · Any year

Each kilogram of this fuel counts as 0.0227 kg CO₂e for producing it and bringing it to you: 0.0168 for process LCA (AusLCI) and 0.00598 for input-output supplement (services, capital, machinery).

Value for any year

0.0227kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ excluded · GWP100 · AR4

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2015

Region
Australia AU
Boundary
Upstream fuel
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.0227 comes from

Σ 0.0227: the two parts add up to ICM's published total.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 3 0.0227

Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.

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Fuels › Solid fossil fuels · Australia · per kg · Average

Upstream fuel · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR4

Boundary
Upstream fuel
Fuel supply, capital goods and overheads and services
GWP method
IPCC AR4, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Not split by gas; CO₂e only

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one kilogram of this fuel, from the well to your flame. ICM gives one figure for the first three steps together. ICM also counts its share of the plant and equipment.

  1. Well-to-tank0.0168Scope 3, cat. 3

    1. Extraction

      Getting the fuel out of the ground

    2. Processing

      Treating it to the quality it is sold at

    3. Transport

      Moving it to your site

  2. Your record

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

= 0.0227 per kg

Outside this boundary

  • Fuel combustion
  • Building the pipelines and the network

ICM leaves out building the pipelines and the network that carry the fuel.

Gases

ICM publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ out.

From ICM's record to a comparable factor

ICM publishes this factor as one record with two sub-lines. 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 totalBlack coal, WA, at mine, upstream fuel0.0227
Process LCA (AusLCI)Scope 3, cat. 30.016873.7% of the totalOpenInput-output supplement (services, capital, machinery)Scope 3, cat. 30.0059826.3% of the totalOpen

About this factor

ICM gives no description for this factor.

Source and licence

Publisher
UNSW Sydney, Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Database
Library
ICM 2019
Record
48
CC BY 4.0 Open

The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineWiedmann, T., Teh, S. H. and Yu, M. (2019) ICM Database - Integrated Carbon Metrics Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory Database, UNSW Sydney. CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Cite this factor

Wiedmann, T., Teh, S. H. and Yu, M. (2019) ICM Database - Integrated Carbon Metrics Embodied Carbon Life Cycle Inventory Database, UNSW Sydney. CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/icm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-icm-black_coal_wa_at_mine-au-kg-upstream_fuel-fc41785f/?v=efv1-5575f8cf807852c31119b0729ad351ec

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