Technical Documents

  • The Australian Government’s Climate Active Scheme obtains scope 3 spend-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emission factors directly from The Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory, or IELab. These are presented as a set of 344 emission factors for economic sectors or product classes across the whole Australian economy. This documentation covers recent history and some background on changes to the emission factors between 2018 and the most recent reporting year (2022) released in 2024.

  • The GLORIA international data base includes tables and impact factors for over 160 countries and regions, more than 300 impact categories and this Excel document describes the labels, extent and meaning of the data. Within the sheets is a description of the structure of the multi-regional input output (MRIO) tables that are used to produce impact factors.