Emission factor from OpenIO-Canada v2.11
Coal Ontario
Per Canadian dollar spent · Cradle to store gate · 2015–2025
Value for spend in 2025
0.03kgCO₂e/CAD
Purchaser price · 2025 CAD · Input-output total · GWP100 · AR6
Re-priced by open-climate.ai from 2022 CAD with the Ontario price index
- Region
- Ontario CA-ON
- Boundary
- Cradle to store gate
- Data quality
- LowRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.03 comes from
OpenIO-Canada publishes 0.0321 in 2022 CAD. open-climate.ai restates it in 2025 CAD with the Ontario price index: 0.0321 × 0.935 = 0.03.
Reporting this dollar under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 3 0.03
Supplying the fuel is Scope 3, category 3 for whoever burns it.
The factor, standardised
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Fuels › Solid fossil fuels · Ontario · per CAD · Average
Cradle to store gate · Input-output total · AR6
- BoundaryCradle to store gateCradle_to_distribution_gate plus retail storage and distribution. Learn more
- Cradle to store gate
- Fuel supply, fuel combustion, capital goods, infrastructure, business travel, overheads and services and imported inputs
- 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; inferred by open-climate.ai · impact method IMPACT World+ 2.1
- 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
- Input-output total
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: not covered
Low quality · Open licence · 2025
One footprint, in every year's money
OpenIO-Canada priced this supply chain in 2022 CAD. For every other year we restate the same emissions with the Ontario price index, so money you spent in 2015 is read at 2015 prices. Pick the year of your spend.
- Published by OpenIO-Canada, 2022 CAD
- Re-priced with the Ontario price indexRe-priced, not re-measuredSame emissions per real unit of spend, expressed in that year's CAD. Money spent in 2015 bought 1.25 times what the same sum buys in 2022, so it carries 1.25 times the emissions: 0.0321 × 1.25 ≈ 0.0403.The figure under each year is that multiplier, with 2022 = 1. Learn more
- Default
| Spend year | kgCO₂e/CAD | Ontario price index, 2022 = 1 | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.03 | 0.93 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0308 | 0.96 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0316 | 0.98 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0321 | 1.00 | Published | |
| 0.0347 | 1.08 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0374 | 1.16 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0378 | 1.18 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0383 | 1.19 | Re-priced | |
| 0.039 | 1.21 | Re-priced | |
| 0.04 | 1.24 | Re-priced | |
| 0.0403 | 1.25 | Re-priced |
Which price, and which warming horizon
Match the price to your invoice, and keep one warming horizon across your whole inventory.
Purchaser price or producer price
The purchaser price is what you paid: the producer's price plus the wholesale and retail margins and the transport to the shop. OpenIO-Canada publishes purchaser prices, what you paid.
Warming horizon and characterisation model
This factor is published for one set only: Impact world plus 2 1, AR6, 100 years. Every other horizon and model: not published.
| IPCC AR4 2007 | IPCC AR5 2013 | IPCC AR6 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GWP20 20 years | IPCC AR4 2007 Not published | IPCC AR5 2013 Not published | IPCC AR6 2021 Not published |
| GWP100 100 years | IPCC AR4 2007 Not published | IPCC AR5 2013 Not published | IPCC AR6 2021 |
| GWP500 500 years | IPCC AR4 2007 Not published | IPCC AR5 2013 Not published | IPCC AR6 2021 Not published |
Impact world plus 2 1 · AR6 · 100 years: 0.03 kgCO₂e/CAD, re-priced to 2025 CAD. The default for this factor. The horizon inventories report in.
What this number covers
The supply chain behind 1 CAD spent, up to the point of sale: every tier counted in one total, none reported alone.
Upstream
- Imported inputs
- Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
In the totalProduction
- Fuel combustion
In the totalAlso counted
- Business travel
- Capital goods: buildings, equipment
- Infrastructure
- Overheads and services
In the totalYour bill
1 CAD paid, margins included. The factor is per CAD here.
= 0.03
Outside this boundary
- Staff commuting
OpenIO-Canada does not count any of this in the figure for 1 CAD.
From OpenIO-Canada's record to a comparable factor
OpenIO-Canada publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
About this factor
From OpenIO-Canada
What it is
High rank hard lustrous black coal destined primarily for residential and industrial (as steel making) or commercial applications. It has generally less than 10% volatile matter and a high carbon content (about 90% fixed carbon). Its gross calorific value is equal to or greater than 24,000 kJ/kg, on an ash-free but moist basis. Bituminous coal with a quality that allows the production of a coke suitable to support a blast furnace charge. Mainly used for steam raising purposes. It is characterized by higher volatile matter than anthracite (more than 10%) and lower carbon content (less than 90% fixed carbon). Non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value equal to or greater than 20,000 kJ/kg and less than 24,000 kJ/kg, containing more than 31% volatile matter on a dry mineral matter free basis. Non-agglomerating coal with a gross calorific value less than 20,000 kJ/kg, containing more than 31% volatile matter on a dry mineral matter free basis.What it includes
Anthracite; Coking (metallurgical) coal; Other bituminous coal; Sub-bituminous coal; Lignite.Source and licence
- Publisher
- OpenIO-Canada (CIRAIG)
- Library
- OpenIO-Canada v2.11
- Record
- Coal|CA-ON
- Published
- 19 January 2026
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
OpenIO-Canada emission factors v2.11 (M. Agez, CIRAIG), CC BY 4.0, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5553376. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/openio_canada/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-openiocanada-coal-ca_on-cad-cradle_to_store_gate-cd09ea66/?v=efv1-e095fb1407bc80daa814d794a0a62edf_2025
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