Portal:Emission Factors

   Emission Factors Portal

Welcome to the Emission Factors Portal

This portal serves as a central hub for reviewed databases related to **emission factors**. Here, you'll find a **summary table** of key databases, with links to detailed reviews.

Emission Factors Database Summary

Database Name	Database Type	Regions	Free or Paid	Description
ecoinvent	Life Cycle Inventory (LCI)	Global	Paid	Comprehensive life cycle inventory data for carbon footprinting and sustainability assessments.
DEFRA Emission Factors	Government Database	UK	Free	Official UK government emission factors for company reporting.
GREET Model	Research Model	USA	Free	Argonne National Laboratory’s tool for transportation emissions and life cycle analysis.
EXIOBASE	Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)	Global	Free	Detailed multi-regional input-output database for environmental assessments.
GHG Protocol Database	Industry Standard	Global	Free	A widely used emissions database for corporate and product carbon accounting.
Agribalyse		France	Free	Managed by the French Environment Agency (ADEME), is a public database that provides detailed life cycle assessment data for agricultural and food products.
Base Empreinte		France	Free	Managed by the French Environment Agency (ADEME). It focuses on carbon emissions related to various sectors, providing emission factors for a wide range of activities, products and services.
EEA		Europe	Free	Primarily focussed on emission factors for air pollutants and greenhouse gases in the European Union.
GLEC		Global	Free	Globally recognized emission factors for freight transportation; covering road, rail, air, sea, and inland waterways.
UBA		Germany	Free	The Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany’s Environment Agency, provides emission factors for various sectors, including energy, industry, transport, and agriculture.
OEKOBAUDAT		Global	Free	OEKOBAUDAT is a German government-managed database for environmental impacts and emissions associated with construction materials and buildings.
EPA		USA	Free	Regularly updated and easy-to-use set of default emission factors for organizational greenhouse gas reporting.
CARB		Global	Free	CARB maintains a list of the Global Warming Potential for the most common refrigerants regulated under their Refrigerant Management Program
Carbon Ditch			Paid	DitchCarbon is a platform designed to automate the collection and reporting of Scope 3 emissions data.
WRAP		Global	Free	Provides a repository of secondary emission factors for food and drink that organisations can use for scope 3 reporting.
PCAF		Europe	Free	It provides a standardized methodology for measuring and reporting financed emissions in the financial sector.
Netherlands Enterprise Agency		Netherlands	Free	List of emission factors including Tank-to-Wheel, Well-to-Tank and biogenic emissions
EORA	Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)	Global	Paid	MRIO model that provides a time series of high-resolution IO tables with matching environmental and social satellite accounts for 190 countries.
Government of Canada	Government Database	Canada	Free	The EFs are more tailored to national reporting (following IPCC guidelines) than organisational reporting.
BEIS		UK	Free	In addition to fuels and UK electricity EFs, it also provides data sets relevant to Scope 3 categories.
AIB		Europe & UK	Free	AIB publishes annual residual grid emission factors for European countries aligned to the reporting requirement under the market-based approach in the GHG Protocol scope 2 guidance.
Green-e		USA	Free	Green-e plays a role in certifying renewable energy and carbon offsets.
IEA		Global	Paid	Provides international electricity emission factors.
IPCC		Global	Free	To be used in calculation of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases.
EEI		USA	Free	Database of market-based EFs for electricity suppliers in the US
ICE		UK	Free	The Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE Data base) is an embodied carbon database for building materials.
Plastics Europe Eco profiles		Europe	Free	Lifecycle inventories and Environmental Production Declarations for a large number of different plastics.
eGRID		USA	Free	eGRID separates electricity generation and emissions across several aggregation levels: Generator, Plant, State, and Subregion.
FIGARO	Multi-regional Input-Output (MRIO)	Europe & G20	Free	Includes aligned Input Output Tables, Supply-Use Tables, Globalisation Indicators and Environmental footprints (GHG emissions).
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) Default Values		Global	Free & Paid	A policy tool implemented by the EU for carbon-intensive goods imported into the EU.
Electricity Info		UK	Free	A selection of datasets on UK electricity fuel mix and carbon intensity.
Carbon Database Initiative		Global	Free	Country electricity EFs outside UK, USA, Canada and Australia are calculated by Carbonfootprint.com
WIOD (or EEIO)		Global	Free	Includes aligned Input Output Tables, Supply-Use Tables, Socio Economic Accounts and links to external Environment Accounts (energy + carbon dioxide).