How are the CO2 emissions calculated?

Our partner use verified emission factors from authorities and NGOs. The calculations are based on the GHG Protocol, which is the world’s leading protocol for calculating emissions. This protocol tells how to calculate emissions, but it does not include the emission factors that should be used to calculate emissions based on the activity data provided. To do this, our partner has built up a large database of emission factors from many different trusted sources over the last few years to enable them to calculate emissions for many different types of activity. These emission factors come mainly from governments, NGOs and scientific publications. These include the European Environment Agency, the German Federal Environmental Agency and the UK’s DEFRA. The team of KlimaAPI regularly checks and updates the factors as new ones become available.