Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative
About Cornerstone Sustainability Data Initiative
Cornerstone is a sustainability data initiative that now maintains the US Environmentally-Extended Input-Output (USEEIO) family of models, originally developed by the US 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.
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| Description | Cornerstone is a sustainability data initiative that now maintains the US Environmentally-Extended Input-Output (USEEIO) family of models, originally developed by the US 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. |
| Source type | Public-private partnership |
| Original dataset URL | URL |
| Year released | 2025 |
| Geography | US |
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| Type of data | Activity-based |
| Emission results | CO2e |
| Data Transformation | NA |
License
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| Type of license | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) |
| License URL | URL |
Data quality
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| Data quality assurance | Vetted by Climatiq |
| Quality flag(s) | ΝΑ |
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