# The Emission Conversion Factor Ontology
With the Net Zero agenda gaining significant traction across the world, organisations are often required to report carbon emissions associated with their operation.

## DBpedia Archivo Ontology Snapshot

| Attribute |  Value |
| - | - |
| Ontology URI | <https://w3id.org/ecfo>
| Archivo Ontology Factsheet| [Link](http://archivo.dbpedia.org/info?o=https://w3id.org/ecfo)
| Snapshot File URL | <https://tec-toolkit.github.io/ECFO/release/1.0.0/ontology.owl>
| Snapshot OWL Version IRI | <https://w3id.org/ecfo/1.0.0>
| Snapshot Time | 2025-03-14 19:04:13

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## Ontology Metadata

DBpedia Archivo extracts metadata from the ontology for well known properties (e.g. dct:description). This subsection shows the content of every property individually using a separate heading.

### dc:description

This ontology defines a vocabulary for describing carbon emission conversion factors (CF). These are values typically used to calculate carbon emissions where the CF multiplies a quantified estimate of the energy (e.g., kWh of electricity, litters of fuel, etc.) used by a particular activity.

### rdfs:comment

1.0.0 release of the Emission Conversion Factor Ontology

### dct:abstract

With the Net Zero agenda gaining significant traction across the world, organisations are often required to report carbon emissions associated with their operation. However, calculating emissions is a non-trivial task and reported scores can differ depending on the choices made by those performing the calculations or the software used to assist with this task. Emission conversion factors are used to calculate greenhouse emissions for different business operations. This ontology aims to describe these conversion factors and their associated properties (e.g., origin, applicable location, etc.) to enhance the transparency of the carbon footprint calculations.

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