Science & Methodology

Discover CarbonCloud’s latest climate science and methodologies.

• What is the science behind CarbonCloud's climate footprint calculations?
• Which information does the CarbonCloud climate footprint include?
• Which impact categories does CarbonCloud include?
• Why does agriculture represent the majority of greenhouse gas emission for some products?
• How do you consider intrinsic emissions in your climate footprint calculations?
• What are indirect N2O (nitrous oxide) emissions?
• Why do you work with conservative values?
• What is allocation?
• What is an attributional Life-cycle assessment?
• What is a consequential Life-cycle assessment?
• Do you include waste in the footprint?
• Do plants capture and bind CO₂?
• Why do you work with economic allocation?
• Do you include recycling in the climate footprint?
• What does kg CO2e mean?
• Why does recycled cardboard have a similar footprint to virgin cardboard?
• What emission factors are used?