Emission Factors:Carbon Database Initiative (CaDI)

Description

The Carbon Database Initiative (CaDI) is a emissions disclosure platform, which also contains a collection of open source emission factors available elsewhere and electricity emission factors for countries outside of the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia calculated by carbonfootprint.com.

Metadata

Data Type: Activity-based, Spend-based
Publisher Type: Other, company emissions data is published by companies themselves, emission factors from a range of sources
Number of Factors: 245 electricity emission factors, 3860 products and materials activity-based factors, 8097 spend-based factors and 9745 company disclosures.
Database Format: Online search.
Last Update: Unknown
Update Frequency: Unknown
Cost: Free but registration is required.
Link: [CaDI (https://www.carbondi.com/#)]

When to use

CaDI has a range of uses due to the range of open source emission factors included. It can also be used for some supply chain calculations where company emissions data is sufficient for calculations.

Limitations

N/A

Page Contributors: Philippe Pernstitch