Emission factor from OpenIO-Canada v2.11
Rail freight transportation services Alberta
Per Canadian dollar spent · Cradle to store gate · 2015–2025
Value for spend in 2025
0.464kgCO₂e/CAD
Purchaser price · 2025 CAD · Input-output total · GWP100 · AR6
Re-priced by open-climate.ai from 2022 CAD with the Alberta price index
- Region
- Alberta CA-AB
- Boundary
- Cradle to store gate
- Data quality
- LowRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.464 comes from
OpenIO-Canada publishes 0.497 in 2022 CAD. open-climate.ai restates it in 2025 CAD with the Alberta price index: 0.497 × 0.935 = 0.464.
Reporting this dollar under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.464
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
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Transport › Rail freight · Alberta · 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, purchased energy, capital goods, 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 Alberta 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 Alberta 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: 0.497 × 1.25 ≈ 0.622.The figure under each year is that multiplier, with 2022 = 1. Learn more
- Default
| Spend year | kgCO₂e/CAD | Alberta price index, 2022 = 1 | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.464 | 0.93 | Re-priced | |
| 0.476 | 0.96 | Re-priced | |
| 0.489 | 0.98 | Re-priced | |
| 0.497 | 1.00 | Published | |
| 0.536 | 1.08 | Re-priced | |
| 0.577 | 1.16 | Re-priced | |
| 0.584 | 1.18 | Re-priced | |
| 0.593 | 1.19 | Re-priced | |
| 0.602 | 1.21 | Re-priced | |
| 0.618 | 1.24 | Re-priced | |
| 0.622 | 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: 0.464 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
- Purchased electricity and heat
In the totalAlso counted
- Business travel
- Capital goods: buildings, equipment
- Overheads and services
In the totalYour bill
1 CAD paid, margins included. The factor is per CAD here.
= 0.464
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
Transportation by rail of bulk liquids and gases in or not in intermodal tank containers; dry bulk not in intermodal containers; climate-control or not climate-control boxed, palletized and other packed goods; climate-controlled or not climate-controlled intermodal containers; automobiles and light-duty trucks; livestock; waste; truck trailers; and all other goods.What it includes
Rail freight transportation services (except rental and leasing with operator or crew); Rental and leasing of locomotives and freight rail cars, with operator or crew.Source and licence
- Publisher
- OpenIO-Canada (CIRAIG)
- Library
- OpenIO-Canada v2.11
- Record
- Rail freight transportation services|CA-AB
- 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-rail_freight-ca_ab-cad-cradle_to_store_gate-07984b6d/?v=efv1-878a173d5159ad192aeac67039e24654_2025
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