Emission factor from ICM 2019
Transport, truck, 16 to 28t, fleet average
Australia · Energy, full life cycle · Any year
Each tonne of goods carried one kilometre counts as 0.21 kg CO₂e: 0.184 for process LCA (AusLCI) and 0.026 for input-output supplement (services, capital, machinery).
Value per tonne of goods carried one kilometre
0.21kgCO₂e/t.km
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
- LoadHow full the vehicle runs. ICM does not say which load this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. ICM does not say which size this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Distance bandFlights are priced by distance band, because take-off and climb burn a large share of a short flight's fuel. Road, rail and sea factors apply to a trip of any length.
- Any distance, not banded
- Cabin classA business seat takes more of the cabin than an economy one, so it carries more of the flight's emissions. First class on a long-haul flight counts four times economy.
- Not applicable on the road
- Region
- Australia AU
- Boundary
- Energy, full life cycle
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.21 comes from
- Process LCA (AusLCI)Energy, full life cycleScope 3, cat. 40.18487.6%
- Input-output supplement (services, capital, machinery)Derived by open-climate.aiOther stagesScope 3, cat. 40.02612.4%
Σ 0.21: the two parts add up to ICM's published total.
Reporting this tonne-kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.21
You pay a carrier to bring goods in, or to move them between your own sites. All of it goes in upstream transport.
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Transport › Road freight · Australia · per t.km · Average
Energy, full life cycle · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR4
- BoundaryEnergy, full life cycleFull life-cycle emissions of one unit of energy service (a kWh generated, or a vehicle-, passenger- or tonne-kilometre moved): extraction and delivery of the fuel or electricity, its combustion in the plant or vehicle, and the manufacture of the generating asset or vehicle itself amortized over its lifetime output. Learn more
- Energy, full life cycle
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion, capital goods and overheads and services
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR4, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic CO₂ and land use; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Excl. biogenic CO₂
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
Per tonne, per vehicle or per passenger
One trip, three ways to count it. Pick the unit you have a number for.
One tonne of goods carried one kilometre. Use it when you know what the shipment weighs.
0.2112 t over 300 km is 3,600 t.km, so 756 kg CO₂e
One person carried one kilometre, on a bus, a train or a flight. It never applies to goods.
Not for goodsWhat this number covers
The path of one tonne-kilometre, from the oil well to the delivered load.
Fuel production
Extracting, refining and delivering the fuel
IncludedVehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
IncludedEffect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour shipment
1 tonne moved 1 km. The factor is per tonne-kilometre.
= 0.21
Gases
ICM publishes this factor as CO₂e only, with no split by gas. The CO₂e leaves biogenic CO₂ out.
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About this factor
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Source and licence
- Publisher
- UNSW Sydney, Integrated Carbon Metrics (ICM) Database
- Library
- ICM 2019
- Record
- 618
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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-transport_truck_16_to-au-tkm-energy_lifecycle-0d231fe4/?v=efv1-cdc852ab5d95c37b9d8f07ec93258e74
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