CO2emissiefactoren.nl - CO2emissiefactoren.nl — Rijkswaterstaat / Stichting Stimular

The Dutch list of CO2 emission factors for fuels, electricity, heat, transport, refrigerants and waste, maintained by Rijkswaterstaat and Stichting Stimular for the footprints of Dutch organisations.

Non-profitGeneralistOpen licence
Factors
578
Values
3,198

One per year and method

Countries
1

1 region, sub-national included

Edition
2026

published 1 Jan 2026 · all versions

Last loaded
25 Sept 2026

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Overview

The Lijst CO2-emissiefactoren is a national consensus list, started under a 2014 Green Deal between the Dutch government, SKAO, Stimular, Connekt and Milieu Centraal. It is published on co2emissiefactoren.nl, with a new edition each January.

The list curates factors from third-party research; it does not produce its own. It mainly serves Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 categories 3, 4, 6 and 7: fuels for vehicles, ships and energy generation, Dutch electricity and heat, passenger and freight transport, refrigerants and other gases, and since the 2025 edition waste. It has no spend-based factors and no factors for raw materials.

At a glance

Publisher
CO2emissiefactoren.nl — Rijkswaterstaat / Stichting Stimular
Kind
Non-profit
Scope
Generalist4 categories each hold at least 5% of its factors; the largest, Transport, holds 38.6%. A generalist needs 4.
Home region
Netherlands
Edition
2026
Licence
Open licence (co2emissiefactoren-nl-terms)

What open-climate.ai standardised

over the publisher's own fileHow we standardise

Warming potentials

0 factor values recalculated on AR6

541 factor values already on AR6

37 factor values left on the publisher's GWP

7 more things standardised

Parts and parents

350 factor values grouped under 228 parents

Use a part on its own, or the parent when you want the whole.

Audit checks

86 passed6 known limitations3 enforced when loadedlast run 25 Sept 2026

Checks we run on every load to keep the data above trustworthy. Counts are for this library; the grey figure is the same check across all libraries. Point at the i to see why a check matters.

What the statuses meanHow checks are countedWhy we checkHow checks are grouped

Needs attention

  • A unit label that names no basis folds one way

    Known limitation · 1 in this library · 1 in all libraries

  • Each biofuel follows one convention for biogenic CO2

    Known limitation · 2 in this library · 12 in all libraries

  • No default value is withheld for poor quality

    Known limitation · 12 in this library

  • Translations match the current source text

    Known limitation · 402 in this library · 286,941 in all libraries

  • Factors are searched on their English name where one exists

    Known limitation · 1 in this library · 7 in all libraries

  • Every excused arithmetic disagreement is stated

    Known limitation · 6 in this library

One category axis

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  • Every source category maps to our vocabulary

    Enforced when loaded

  • The publisher's classification is kept

    Passed

  • Every classification level has a valid parent

    Passed

  • Every product code comes with the codes above it

    Passed

  • A publisher's own classification is used only by that publisher

    Passed

  • A standard classification code has one label in every library

    Passed

Coded regions

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  • Every region is a known code

    Enforced when loaded

  • No named region is filed under a broader one

    Passed

  • Every region sits in the world hierarchy

    Passed

Canonical units

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  • Every unit is a known code

    Enforced when loaded

  • One source unit maps to one unit

    Passed

  • A unit label means the same in every library

    Passed

  • A unit label that names no basis folds one way

    Known limitation · 1 in this library · 1 in all libraries

Declared boundaries

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  • Every boundary states what it includes

    Passed

  • Boundary scope terms are known codes

    Passed

  • No two factors for the same activity partly overlap in scope

    Passed

  • Separate stages of one activity are linked as parts

    Passed

  • Every part of a factor states its boundary

    Passed

  • Each biofuel follows one convention for biogenic CO2

    Known limitation · 2 in this library · 12 in all libraries

  • No recycling credit is hidden inside a life-cycle total

    Passed

Warming potentials

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  • Methane and nitrous oxide figures match the stated GWP

    Passed

  • Every convertible value has its AR6 version

    Passed

  • CO2e totals agree with their gases

    Passed · 3,229 in all libraries

  • Fossil-only values list the gases that back the label

    Passed · 19,942 in all libraries

  • Standardised figures keep every gas the publisher lists

    Passed

  • Every value states what its CO2e total includes

    Passed

  • A library with no AR6 version at all has a recorded reason

    Passed

Parts and parents

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  • Every part links to a valid parent

    Passed

  • No factor is an unlinked part of another factor

    Passed

  • Every factor points to its top parent

    Passed

Electricity mix

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  • Every electricity factor states its mix

    Passed

  • The market-based value is the default

    Passed

  • One default value per factor and year

    Passed

  • Every green-electricity zero is a market-based value

    Passed

  • Green-electricity zeros are not rated below market-based peers

    Passed

Data quality

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  • Quality ratings fall inside their scale

    Passed

  • Every zero value is explained

    Passed

  • No default value is withheld for poor quality

    Known limitation · 12 in this library

  • No implausibly high per-kilogram value is rated reliable

    Passed

  • Every quality level gives a recognised reason

    Passed

  • A zero that is only a gap in the source is withheld

    Passed

  • The library is not rated entirely on one fallback quality level

    Passed

Languages

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  • Every factor has an English name

    Passed

  • Translations match the current source text

    Known limitation · 402 in this library · 286,941 in all libraries

  • Every served factor has a name

    Passed

  • Factors are searched on their English name where one exists

    Known limitation · 1 in this library · 7 in all libraries

  • Every language with a main name also has a full name

    Passed

  • Full names are built from their parts in the same language

    Passed

  • Every text is labelled with its real language

    Passed

  • Every description is available for display and translation

    Passed

  • Every usage note is available for display and translation

    Passed

Traceable to the source

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  • Values traced to one source row agree with each other

    Passed

  • No duplicate factors are served

    Passed · 302 in all libraries

  • No factor value claims two things that cannot both be true

    Passed · 5,836 in all libraries

  • No factor value the publisher has withdrawn is still served

    Passed · 556 in all libraries

Other checks

  • An activity's grouping key names only the activity

    Passed · 6 in all libraries

  • A Creative Commons credit names its licence

    Passed

  • No note of ours appears in the credit or licence notice

    Passed

  • The credit line carries no terms of use

    Passed

  • Every impact assessment method is a recognised code

    Passed

  • Summed totals keep their parts' classification

    Passed

  • Every summed total has a classification when its parts do

    Passed

  • An avoided credit is linked to the burden it belongs to

    Passed

  • Every value is typed as specific, generic or average

    Passed

  • Summed totals equal their parts on every gas

    Passed

  • Validity dates are the publisher's own, never guessed

    Passed

  • Quality breakdowns use their scheme's axes

    Passed

  • No battery-electric vehicle carries tailpipe emissions

    Passed

  • The text of each estimated factor matches its current figures

    Passed

  • A total built on an estimated part is marked as estimated

    Passed

  • Every estimate is built only from data we may redistribute

    Passed

  • No estimated factor is rated above the data it was built from

    Passed

  • No estimate is served where the publisher printed the figure

    Passed

  • Every estimated factor still matches the inputs it was computed from

    Passed

  • Every factor with a current value has a default

    Passed

  • Every factor has a value, in a library that publishes values

    Passed

  • Every fixed group of regions lists what it covers

    Passed

  • Where both exist, the residual mix is shown before the green-tariff zero

    Passed

  • The newest edition of each value is the one marked current

    Passed

  • Factor descriptions describe the factor, not the whole library

    Passed

  • Every library's licence has its rights recorded

    Passed

  • Every green-electricity zero is exactly zero and says why

    Passed

  • Green-electricity zeros cover power generation only

    Passed

  • Only a total we computed may mix GWP vintages

    Passed

  • Spend factors state their price year and basis

    Passed

  • Every value has a number, a GWP version and a reference year

    Passed

  • No factor description is too long to display in full

    Passed · 4 in all libraries

  • Every excused arithmetic disagreement is stated

    Known limitation · 6 in this library

  • Every reference year falls between 1960 and next year

    Passed

  • The parts of a total are never listed twice under one label

    Passed

  • Every residual mix has its green-tariff counterpart

    Passed

  • Every publisher's quality rating system is read

    Passed

  • A supplier named in the source is linked to the factor

    Passed

  • A part covering the same scope as its total is linked to it

    Passed

  • A year in a factor's name matches its reference year

    Passed

How the audit works

What can I do with this data?

Open licence · credit the publisher

Your rights

Open licence · co2emissiefactoren-nl-terms
Use it to calculate my own footprint
Yes
Publish my footprint results
Yes, if
  • you credit the publisher
  • you tell the publisher
Share the file with my customers
Yes, if
  • you credit the publisher
  • you tell the publisher
Put the factors in a product I sell
Yes, if
  • you credit the publisher
  • you tell the publisher
Modify it or combine it with my own data
Yes, if
  • you credit the publisher
  • you tell the publisher

Written confirmation from the publisher, checked on 15 Sept 2026

Stimular, by email 2026-09-15: "De data zijn openbaar toegankelijk" (the data are publicly accessible) and attribution is "voldoende" (sufficient). The site asks to be told when the list is built into a tool.

Credit line

Data: Bron: Lijst CO2-emissiefactoren (co2emissiefactoren.nl), beheerd door Rijkswaterstaat en Stichting Stimular namens de Green Deal-partijen. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/co2emissiefactoren_nl (CC BY 4.0)

Not legal advice: the publisher's terms prevail.

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How to read these answers

Coverage

What the library covers, by category and by boundary. Click a slice to drill in, then a sub-category or a boundary to filter the factors below.

By category

Transport: 88Fuels: 61Direct emissions: 39Waste treatment: 30Electricity: 7Heat and cooling: 2Materials: 1
228factors

Click a slice to see what is under it. Click a name to hide it from the ring.

By boundary

Energy, full chain: 134Direct only: 63End of life / waste: 30Supply chain only: 1
228factors

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Browse factors

top 0 matches

SavedUnfoldActivitySub-categoryRegionBoundaryUnitGWP

Checked for updates 18 Sept 2026: the publisher still shows the edition we serve (2 signals watched)

VersionPublishedLoadedStatusSource
20261 Jan 202625 Sept 2026ServedSource

Methodology

How this works
  • Values are kg CO2e per unit of activity. For fuels and transport the list publishes a total (well to wheel), the direct emissions (tank to wheel) and the upstream emissions (well to tank). We serve the total with its two parts as components, labelled Well-to-use.
  • Biogenic CO2 is left out of the total, as the publisher advises: it belongs beside a footprint, not in it. Where the list publishes it, it is kept beside the value.
  • The GWP basis follows the edition, read from the GWP table each edition prints: IPCC AR4 for 2020, AR5 for 2021 to 2024, AR6 for 2025 and 2026.
  • Refrigerants carry the GWP100 figure as the default. On 25 of them the Montreal Protocol (AR4) figure is kept as a second value.
  • Waste factors are parallel routes, not parts of one total: the GHG Protocol figure for collection and treatment, transport, treatment, and emissions avoided by recycling or energy recovery. Avoided emissions are negative and never netted.
  • The reference year is the edition year: the 2025 factor is meant for a 2025 footprint.
  • Natural gas published per Nm³ is also served per kWh, at the list's own 31.65 MJ per Nm³ (net).

Publication year: the edition the value was published in, not a data year.

What we import

  • The yearly exports for the editions 2020 to 2026, 229 factors per edition: 578 factors and 3,203 values in total.
  • Each published column as its own factor, with one value per edition year.
  • The description and sources of each factor, from its page on the website.
  • Not imported: the editions 2015 to 2019, which exist only in an archive workbook with different naming; the Infrastructure (LCA approach) column, which adds capital goods outside the total; the wastewater row per pollution equivalent; the MJ conversion column outside natural gas; and cells that are blank or marked withdrawn (vervallen). Each excluded row is kept in our archive with its reason.
  • Names are published in Dutch. English and French names are machine translated.

Open. The list names no standard licence. Its terms allow free use with a clear source reference, and ask builders of CO2 tools to tell the publisher they use it. Stichting Stimular confirmed in September 2026 that the data are publicly accessible and that attribution is sufficient: "Bron: Lijst CO2-emissiefactoren (co2emissiefactoren.nl), beheerd door Rijkswaterstaat en Stichting Stimular".

The terms do not address redistribution or commercial use explicitly.

What can I do with this data?

Credit line: Bron: Lijst CO2-emissiefactoren (co2emissiefactoren.nl), beheerd door Rijkswaterstaat en Stichting Stimular namens de Green Deal-partijen.

co2emissiefactoren-nl-terms

Limitations

  • The factors describe the Dutch situation. The publisher advises its electricity, natural gas, biogas and heat factors for the Netherlands only, passenger transport for Western Europe, fuels and freight for Europe, and refrigerants and other gases worldwide.
  • No breakdown by gas is published, so values from 2020 to 2024 cannot be restated in AR6. Compare editions with care.
  • Factors the publisher has withdrawn are not yet retired here: their last published value is still served. Check the factor's description before use.
  • For the electricity label (stroometiket) the published total is variable. We serve only its supply chain part, 0.044 kg CO2e per kWh, which is not a total.
  • The publisher revises the current edition during the year, sometimes retroactively: three times in 2026 so far. Note when you took a value.

Changelog

  • 2026-09-15: open access confirmed by Stichting Stimular; fuel and transport totals relabelled Well-to-use.
  • 2026-09-14: values served openly under the publisher's terms of use.
  • 2026-09-10: natural gas factors per Nm³ also served per kWh; zero values for green electricity no longer rated lower in quality.
  • 2026-08-01: editions 2020 to 2026 loaded.

Know a newer edition?

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