What Colour is your Building?

Notes

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Introduction

1 The main greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O) and F-gases. The unit of measurement, which accounts for the combined global warming potential of these greenhouse gases released during the combustion of fuels, is kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent (kgCO₂e). Refer to Appendix B for emission factors (kgCO₂e per kWh) of different fuels.

2 Primary energy can also be used instead of CO₂e to provide a comparison of different energy sources (e.g. electricity ...