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Carbon Equivalents

Updated: Jan 2, 2022


When I say carbon, I really mean carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e).


The most common green house gas is CO2. However, there are other green house gases, like methane. Methane has a much greater warming effect than CO2.


1 kg of methane is equivalent to releasing 84 kg's of CO2.


To keep things simple for us, scientists use carbon equivalents to covert the methane emissions into a common unit to measure green house gas pollution.


Carbon equivalents give us a common unit to compare the impacts of emitting different greenhouse gases.


Please see this document for a more details.


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