Value for any year
0.203kgCO₂e/km
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
- LoadHow full the vehicle runs. UOS does not say which load this factor assumes.
- Not stated
- Vehicle sizeThe vehicle's class, by weight or capacity. UOS 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
- Iceland IS
- Boundary
- Combustion
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · UOS terms
Where 0.203 comes from
UOS prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up and no split by gas.
Reporting this kilometre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 4 0.203
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
Every factor on open-climate.ai answers the same questions in the same words, whatever the publisher. Open any ⓘ for the definition.
Transport › Road freight · Iceland · per km · Average
Combustion · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5
- 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
- IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
- As printed by UOS
- 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
- Excl. biogenic CO₂
- Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of 1 km, from the oil well to the end of the trip.
Vehicle operation
Burning the fuel on the road, spread over the average load
Included0.203Effect at altitude
Contrails and other warming from burning fuel high up. Flights only.
Not applicable on the roadYour record
1 km in your records. The factor is per km.
= 0.203
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.
From UOS's record to a comparable factor
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About this factor
UOS gives no description for this factor. Filed under Vegasamgöngur › Sendibifreiðar.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Umhverfis- og orkustofnun
- Library
- UOS v7.0.1
- Published
- 18 December 2025
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
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-van_petrol-is-km-combustion-7b9dc450/?v=efv1-1f135f0880a6dbaead20be152f802fc5
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