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Article | REF: G1819 V2

Carbon Footprint - Implementation

Author: Aurélie WOLFF

Publication date: October 10, 2015

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4. Production of the Bilan Carbone® report

4.1 Emission factors

Emissions factors are multiplying coefficients used to calculate (with a certain margin of error) the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted by a human activity: they thus convert activity data into GHG emissions.

The Bilan Carbone calculation tool ® offers a large number of emission factors, and its "Guide to emission factors" explains how to calculate these factors, their sources and associated uncertainties.

Emissions factors take into account several stages, depending on the item under consideration: the "upstream" stage, which represents what happens before the fuel is used by the entity carrying out its Bilan Carbone...

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