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Emission factor from UOS v7.0.1

Fuel (combustion emissions) - Biomethane

Iceland · Combustion · Any year

Each litre of this fuel counts as 0.000002 kg CO₂e from burning it. UOS gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

0.000002kgCO₂e/L

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR5

One value, for any year

UOS sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2024

Region
Iceland IS
Boundary
Combustion
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · UOS terms

Where 0.000002 comes from

Published as one number

UOS prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up and no split by gas.

Reporting this litre under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 0.000002

You burn the fuel, so its combustion is your Scope 1.

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Fuels › Biofuels · Iceland · per L · Average

Combustion · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5

Boundary
Combustion
Fuel combustion
GWP method
IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
As printed by UOS
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂
Not split by gas; CO₂e only

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

What this number covers

The path of one litre of this fuel, from the crops or residues it is made from to your engine or boiler.

  1. Your record

    1 L in your records. The factor is per L.

  2. Burning it

    In your engine or boiler: mostly CO₂ the plants took up as they grew, with a little CH₄ and N₂O

    0.000002

= 0.000002 per L

Outside this boundary

  • Producing and delivering the fuel
  • Making the boiler that burns it
  • Building the pipelines and the network

UOS counts only burning the fuel, not producing and delivering it or the things built to extract, move and burn it.

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About this factor

From UOS

Kolefnislosun frá metani sem er framleitt úr lífmassa er af lífrænum uppruna (e. biogenic) og hluti af skammtímakolefnishringrás. Því er CO2 losun ekki talin með við bruna á eldsneytinu, einungis losun á glaðlofti (N2O) og metani (CH4).

Source and licence

Publisher
Umhverfis- og orkustofnun
Library
UOS v7.0.1
Published
18 December 2025
Open the record at UOS
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The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineUmhverfis- og orkustofnun (Icelandic Environment and Energy Agency), Losunarstuðlar, 7th edition (December 2025)
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

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Umhverfis- og orkustofnun (Icelandic Environment and Energy Agency), Losunarstuðlar, 7th edition (December 2025). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/uos_iceland/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-uosiceland-biomethane-is-l-combustion-23cd1974/?v=efv1-2f8f0e19f9d5a329f95479f9c8020255

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