Value for any year
0.26kgCO₂e/kWh
Net total: fossil, biogenic and land use · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balanceOne value, for any year
ISPRA sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2022
Derived by open-climate.ai
- LoadHow full a lorry, train or ship runs with goods. A passenger factor counts passengers or vehicles, not tonnes, so no load applies.
- Not applicable
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. ISPRA 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
- Italy IT
- Boundary
- Combustion
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.26 comes from
open-climate.ai adds up the gases ISPRA publishes, each weighted by its warming potential.
Reporting this kilowatt-hour under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 6 0.26
A trip for work is business travel, Scope 3, category 6, whoever books it.
The factor, standardised
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Transport › Car travel · Italy · per kWh · Average
Combustion · Net total · AR6
- BoundaryCombustionDirect emissions from burning the fuel at the point of use, in a boiler, furnace, engine or vehicle (for a vehicle, tank-to-wheel). Learn more
- Combustion
- Fuel combustion
- 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 AR6, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from ISPRA's method notes
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Net totalFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
- Split by gas
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All values
4 values for the same period, one per method.
0.26 kgCO₂e/kWh, AR6 GWP100, with no date window.
Default valueThe default: what search results and the API return when you ask for no method.
| Method | Value |
|---|---|
| 0.269Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.252Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.25Derived by open-climate.ai | |
| 0.26Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai |
- Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific
- Derived by open-climate.ai
What this number covers
The path of one kilowatt-hour, from the oil well to the end of the trip.
Vehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
Included0.26Effect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour meter
1 kWh used. The factor is per kWh measured here.
= 0.26
Outside this boundary
- Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
- Building the vehicle
- Roads and depots
This factor counts the fuel the vehicle burns, not the vehicle itself or the infrastructure it runs on. Some libraries price building the vehicle as a factor of its own.
Gases in vehicle operation
Basis: Net totalEvery carbon pool, biogenic and land use included, net of removals, so it can sit below the fossil figure, or even below zero. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
- Carbon dioxide (CO₂)0.25397.4%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.00552.1%
- Methane (CH₄)0.001140.4%
Σ 0.253 + 0.00114 + 0.0055 = 0.26.
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic and land-use carbon are counted.
From ISPRA's record to a comparable factor
ISPRA 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
ISPRA gives no description for this factor.
Source and licence
- Value
- Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
- Publisher
- Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA)
- Library
- ISPRA fetransp-2022
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
Source: ISPRA, "Fattori di emissione medi del trasporto stradale in Italia", reference year 2022, CC BY 4.0. https://fetransp.isprambiente.it/. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/ispra/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ispra-passenger_cars_petrol-it-kwh-combustion-07a0a539/?v=efv1-aebc25a09f3f300700719ca168a3c416
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