Emission Factors:EXIOBASE 3.8

Description

EXIOBASE is an environmentally extended multi-regional input‐output (EE MRIO) database. It provides spend-based emission factors covering a wide range of products and countries. There is a good level of granularity here in comparison to other EE MRIO models, in particular for agricultural products, the energy sector and raw materials.

As an EE MRIO database, it only covers the cradle-to-gate emissions of products, not the emissions from use, so if you are using it for goods like fuels which have direct emissions from use, these will need to be added to the factor.

Metadata

Data Type: Spend-based
Publisher Type: Academic Body
Number of Factors: 9,800 emission factors for each year (200 products in 49 regions)
Database Format: Raw MRIO tables available via Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/5589597), calculated emission factors in kg/eur available via Climatiq (https://www.climatiq.io/data/source/exiobase)
Last Update: October 2021
Update Frequency: No longer updated. Continued in EXIOBASE 3.9.
Cost: Free
Link: [1]

When to use

EXIOBASE is widely used in industry and academia. This is a good option when spend-based emission factors are required, for example, when calculating Scope 3, Purchased Goods & Services emissions. Apply caution when using it outside of EU + OECD countries.

EXIOBASE 3.9 is more up-to-date and, therefore, recommended, but a license is required.

An alternative database is FIGARO. See EEIO database selection advice for more information.

Limitations

Whilst version 3.8 is available for commercial use free of charge (CC-BY-SA), the newly published version 3.9 is under a version of CC-BY-SA-NC, and you need to contact the team to agree a commercial license. Version 3.9 is more up-to-date.

Page Contributors: Josh Couchman