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0.415kgCO₂e/kg

GWP100 · IPCC AR5

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Reference year 2025

Region: Australia AU
Boundary: Process emissions
Data quality: HighRated by us, not by the source
Licence: Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 0.415 comes from

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Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 0.415

Gas that escapes from equipment you run is a direct emission, so it is your Scope 1.

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Direct emissions › Industrial process emissions · Australia · per kg · Average

Category: Direct emissions › Industrial process emissions; Browse it to compare every publisher's factors
Activity: Soda Ash Use
Region: AustraliaAU; Not on the record; set from NGA's coverage
Per unit: kg; Published as Scope 1 emission factor (t CO2-e/t); no conversion needed
Data type: Average; No supplier named
Classified as: NGA Factors tableScope 1 › Industrial processes › Table 14

Process emissions · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5

Boundary: Process emissions
GWP method: IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon; Not on the record; inferred by open-climate.ai
CO₂e basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories; Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle: Upstream: not coveredProduction: partly coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered

High quality · Open licence · Any year

Data quality: High; Rated by us, not by the source
Applies to: Any year; Reference year 2025 · one value; NGA sets no date window
Origin: Printed by NGA; Record t14
Licence: Open · CC BY 4.0; Free to reuse, with attribution

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= 0.415

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NGA field	As printed		Served as
Record id	t14	→	Source record t14, linked below
Name	Soda Ash Use	→	Soda Ash Use
Category	Scope 1 > Industrial processes > Table 14	→	Direct emissions › Industrial process emissions
Total	0.415	→	0.415 kgCO₂e/kg, process emissions
Unit	Scope 1 emission factor (t CO2-e/t)	→	per kg
GWP	not on the record	→	AR5, GWP100, inferred by us

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NGA gives no description for this factor. Filed under Scope 1 › Industrial processes › Table 14.

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Publisher: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW)
Library: NGA 2026
Record: t14 · table number

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Credit it with this lineDCCEEW 2026, Australian National Greenhouse Accounts Factors, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra, September. CC BY 4.0.

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DCCEEW 2026, Australian National Greenhouse Accounts Factors, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra, September. CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/nga_australia/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ngaaustralia-soda_ash_use-au-kg-process_direct-603e41f7/?v=efv1-765d23dce59f7e3f4d4e6cda54931b47

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