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The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU) publishes the BAFU LCA database, the reference life cycle inventory database for Switzerland.

The UK Government issues emission conversion factors for use by UK and international organisations to report on greenhouse gas emissions. The key responsible departments / agencies are / were: BEIS , DEFRA, DESNZ and NAEI.

Cloud Carbon Footprint is a free and open-source emissions measurement and analysis tool. It provides emission factors and methodology for measuring the emissions of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Explore Watershed (CEDA) data

Emissions from an average commute for different UK regions. Uses UK Government emissions factors and travel data from UK Government and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

Cornerstone is a sustainability data initiative that maintains and publishes key US environmental datasets, including the US Environmentally-Extended Input-Output (USEEIO) family of models, the U.S. EPA's GHG Emission Factors Hub, and eGRID electricity emission factors, originally developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). USEEIO provides open emission factors across more than 400 sectors of the US economy and is widely used for Scope 3 corporate accounting, policy analysis, and academic research. The GHG Emission Factors Hub provides emission factors for a wide range of fuels, transportation modes, refrigerants, waste, and other activities commonly used in greenhouse gas inventories. eGRID provides detailed electricity generation emissions data for estimating the emissions intensity of grid-supplied electricity in the United States.