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Overview

Climatiq Guides

Here you will find a variety of guides.

  • Tutorials are learning-oriented and take you through parts of the Climatiq product, while teaching you underway
  • How-to's are goal-oriented and teach you how to solve a concrete problem
  • The Understand section dives into deeper explanation and help you understand the Climatiq product and the sustainability space better

Tutorials

Quickstart

Make your first CO2e estimate with the Climatiq API.

Intermodal Freight Quickstart

A step-by-step guide on how to make your first estimation using Climatiq's Intermodal Freight API.

Autopilot Integration Guide

Integrate Autopilot into your application to automate emission calculation for your users.

Guide to the Excel Add-In

Easily utilize the Climatiq capabilities through custom functions from within Excel without any engineering skills required.

Guide to the Google Sheets Extension

Benefit from custom formulas in Google Sheets to easily calculate emissions for a wide range of business activities.

Upload and use private emission factors

Upload and use any emission factors you like in the API, right alongside the validated datasets currently available.

Calculate cloud carbon footprint

Climatiq can help you calculate the carbon footprint of your cloud usage for the big three cloud providers. Read more here.

Use classification codes to estimate carbon emissions

Learn how you can use standard industry classification codes to automatically calculate your carbon emissions.

Map custom identifiers to Climatiq emission factors

The Custom Mapping tool and endpoint makes it easy perform emission estimates using your own identifiers.

Using source_lca_activity with Climatiq

Figure out how Climatiq surfaces lifecycle assessments in the database and which one is relevant to your use case.

Intermodal Freight Transportation endpoint

How to use Climatiq to calculate emissions for freight transportation covering several different modalities, such as air, sea, rail and road.

How-Tos

Understand

What an emission factor is

Wondering exactly what an emission factor is? Read an introductory guide here.

The Climatiq activity ID

Understand the concept of Activity ID, what is it for and how it relates to emission factors.

How CO2e calculations work

Need a little primer on the ways CO2e for an activity is calculated from constituent gases? Look no further.

How Climatiq handles data quality

Climatiq sometimes finds emission factors that have data quality issues. See how we handle this, and what information we pass on to our API users.

A quick guide to Lifecycle Assessments

Learn what lifecycle asssessments are and how they can apply to your carbon estimates.

How to work with different currencies

Climatiq works with over 40 currencies. Read here to learn about how we handle conversion rates and more.

How you can calculate scope 3.1 emissions

A guide on how to calculate scope 3.1 (purchased goods and services) emissions.

Data Versioning: How Climatiq handles updates to emission factors

How Climatiq uses data versions to let you choose between stability and recency of results.

How API versioning works at Climatiq

How Climatiq versions its API, and how long you have to upgrade when a new version is released.

Choose electricity emission factors for Scope 2

Find out how to select the right emission factor(s) for valid estimations of emissions from electricity usage.

How To Estimate Scope 3 Fuel and Energy Related Activities (FERA) For Electricity, Heat and Steam

Guidance on the methodologies of estimating scope 3 fuel and energy related activities.

How to Calculate Emissions from Travel

Understand how Climatiq calculate emissions produced from travel by car, airplane, train, and hotel stays.

Using Freight for ISO 14083 reporting

Understand how our Freight endpoint allows emission estimation and reporting in compliance with ISO 14083:2023

How To Report Biogenic CO2

Guidance on Biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and how to report them using Climatiq.

How To Use Fuel activity_id

Understand fuel activity_ids and how to find the right fuel emission factor for your estimation.