Emission factor from JRC-IDEES v2023-1.00
Heavy goods vehicles - International, type-approval test cycle, vehicle stock
Portugal · Combustion · 2023 onwards
Value per kilometre driven
0.778kgCO₂e/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 on the road
- Region
- Portugal PT
- Boundary
- Combustion
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.778 comes from
JRC-IDEES prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.
Reporting this kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.778
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The factor, standardised
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Transport › Road freight · Portugal · per 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
All values
24 values, one per year back to 2000. Every one is fossil only, so the years compare directly.
2023 onwards0.778Default value
- Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific
What this number covers
The path of one vehicle-kilometre, from the oil well to the end of the trip.
Vehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
Included0.778Effect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour trip
1 km driven. The factor is per vehicle-kilometre.
= 0.778
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 CO₂0.778
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 › Road transport › Freight transport › International.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC-IDEES)
- Library
- JRC-IDEES v2023-1.00
- Record
- EMIint_test_stock.gCO2_per_km.PT.Tr.Road.Freight.HGV_International
- 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-heavy_goods_vehicles-pt-km-combustion-932feef4/?v=efv1-b99f748a256c5bc1747c5e5105ce022f
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