Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emission Factors for US Industries 2010-2016

Emission factors and data quality scores for US commodities and industries, calculated from USEEIO models at detail and summary categorization levels. The dataset covers annual data from 2010 to 2016. It was produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for analyzing supply chain and margin greenhouse gas emissions.

Use Cases

• Calculate Scope 3 emissions for specific US industries using the supply chain and margin emission factors.
• Analyze trends in emission factors across the 2010-2016 time range for different commodity categories.
• Assess data quality scores to prioritize emission reduction efforts in sectors with higher uncertainty.
• Model life cycle GHG emissions for products using the commodity-level emission factors from the USEEIO framework.

Strengths

• Covers a 7-year time range from 2010 to 2016, enabling temporal trend analysis.
• Provides data at two levels of categorization (detail and summary) for both industries and commodities.
• Includes data quality scores alongside emission factors, offering insight into uncertainty.
• Associated with a peer-reviewed EPA publication, ensuring methodological rigor.

Limitations

• The dataset is temporally stale, with the latest data from 2016 and no updates since the 2020 publication.
• Available only in XLS format, which may limit programmatic access and integration.
• The specific number of rows, columns, and data points is unknown, making it difficult to assess granularity.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Collection Method

Calculated from USEEIO models using the supply-chain-factors code (v1.1.1) in RStudio.

Time Range

2010 to 2016

Freshness

Last updated in April 2022, but the underlying data covers 2010-2016.

Geography

United States