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
- Understandings dive into deeper explanation and help you understand the Climatiq product and the sustainability space better
Tutorials
Make your first CO2e estimate with the Climatiq API.
Upload and use any emission factors you like in the API, right alongside the validated datasets currently available.
Climatiq can help you calculate the carbon footprint of your cloud usage for the big three cloud providers. Read more here.
Learn how you can use standard industry classification codes to automatically calculate your carbon emissions.
The Custom Mapping tool and endpoint makes it easy perform emission estimates using your own identifiers.
Figure out what Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) are, and how Climatiq surfaces LCA data. Click here to learn more.
How to use Climatiq to calculate emissions for transportation covering several different modalities, such as air, sea and road.
How-Tos
An API token is only a few clicks away. Click here if you're not sure how to get one.
Use our Postman Collection to send example API requests.
The Climatiq API can be used with any programming language, but here are a few handy snippets to help you get started with Python, including how to use Climatiq within a Jupyter notebook.
Are you looking to upgrade your data version? This page will help you with a step-by-step guide.
Step-by-step instructions on how to narrow down your search and get exactly the emission factors you're looking for using metadata (such as sources or regions) in Climatiq's database.
Understanding
Wondering exactly what an emission factor is? Read an introductory guide here.
Understand the concept of Activity ID, what is it for and how does it relate to emission factors.
Need a little primer on the ways CO2e for an activity is calculated from constituent gases? Look no further.
A guide on how to calculate scope 3.1 (purchased goods and services) emissions.
Find out how to select the right emission factor(s) for valid estimations of emissions from electricity usage.
Guidance on the methodologies of estimating scope 3 fuel and energy related activities.
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.
Climatiq handles over 40 currencies. See here how we handle conversion rates and more.
How Climatiq uses data versions to let you choose between stability and currency of results.
Understand how Climatiq calculate emissions produced from travel by car, airplane, train, and hotel stays.