Emission Factors:EXIOBASE 3.9

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
Last Update: January 2025
Update Frequency: Annually
Cost: Paid
Link: [1]

When to use

Not yet widely used because it's so new, but it's by the same original creators as EXIOBASE 3.8, so it's likely a better option than EXIOBASE 3.8 given it's more recent.

Limitations

A commercial license is required. The database was very recently published, so it's not known yet whether the limitations on economic data from EXIOBASE 3.8 also apply to this version.

Page Contributors: Josh Couchman