Emission factor from JRC-IDEES v2023-1.00
Freight transport - All modes, real-world
Spain · Combustion · 2023 onwards
Value per tonne of goods carried one kilometre
0.106kgCO₂e/t.km
Fossil only · CO₂ only
- LoadHow full the vehicle runs. JRC-IDEES does not say which load this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. JRC-IDEES 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
- Region
- Spain ES
- Boundary
- Combustion
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.106 comes from
JRC-IDEES prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this tonne-kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.106
You pay a carrier to bring goods in, or to move them between your own sites. All of it goes in upstream transport.
The factor, standardised
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Transport › Multimodal freight · Spain · per t.km · Average
Combustion · Fossil only
- 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
- None: the value counts CO₂ alone
- CO₂ weighs 1 in every IPCC report, so no GWP applies
- 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
- Fossil only
- All of it is CO₂
Medium quality · Open licence · 2000 to now
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.
0.10612 t over 300 km is 3,600 t.km, so 382 kg CO₂e
One person carried one kilometre, on a bus, a train or a flight. It never applies to goods.
Not for goodsAll values
24 values, one per year back to 2000. Every one is fossil only, so the years compare directly.
2023 onwards0.106Default value
| AppliesYears | TotalkgCO₂e/t.km | JRC-IDEES recordRecord |
|---|---|---|
| 0.106Default value | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.114 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.109 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.109 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.122 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.13 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.131 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.128 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.121 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.122 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.125 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.126 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.137 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.149 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.153 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.156 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.158 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.165 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.166 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.176 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.186 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.184 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.199 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr | |
| 0.195 | EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr |
- Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific
What this number covers
The path of one tonne-kilometre, from the oil well to the delivered load.
Vehicle operation
Running the vehicle, spread over the average load
Included0.106Your shipment
1 tonne moved 1 km. The factor is per tonne-kilometre.
= 0.106
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: Fossil onlyFossil carbon only: biogenic CO₂, methane from biogenic sources and land-use change are left out. Learn more
- Fossil CO₂0.106
The CO₂e counts fossil carbon only; biogenic CO₂, biogenic methane and land-use carbon are left out.
From JRC-IDEES's record to a comparable factor
JRC-IDEES publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
About this factor
JRC-IDEES gives no description for this factor. Filed under Transport.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC-IDEES)
- Library
- JRC-IDEES v2023-1.00
- Record
- EMIint.gCO2_per_tkm.ES.Tr
- Published
- 6 November 2025
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
© European Union, 1995-2026. JRC-IDEES-2023 (Integrated Database of the European Energy System), European Commission, Joint Research Centre, v2023-1.00. CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/jrc_idees/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-jrcidees-freight_transport_all-es-tkm-combustion-f50e1d75/?v=efv1-4949a8989d4ad3fcac77e8d23ec6d552
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