Emissions Capabilities
Your guide on your emissions journey
Overview
S&P Global Energy is building the tools the world needs to incorporate carbon into everyday business decisions.
We help our customers by empowering them with the world’s most comprehensive and robust asset and commodity greenhouse gas emissions data sets. We are the independent partner to help you succeed in today’s world where emissions data is of the utmost importance in understanding, tracking, and tackling decarbonization.
These insights are developed in collaboration with the "Center of Emissions Excellence," a team that works across Energy businesses to align our methodologies. Our unified approach to emissions estimation and accounting will provide you with essential intelligence to enable successful decarbonization strategies.
Data, Analytics and Insights with Global Coverage
S&P Global Energy helps the market incorporate emissions into everyday decisions. Our expert intelligence and solutions help you succeed in a world where a carbon competitiveness strategy is essential.
Understanding the emissions landscape
We help you understand, interpret, benchmark and track emissions performance on a consistent basis across sectors and global value chains
Enabling carbon-differentiated trading
We help you incorporate emissions into commodity transaction with the most current and comprehensive commodity emissions datasets available
Addressing transition risk and enabling business decisions
As you navigate the energy transition, we help you understand and assess transition risk and identify opportunities for change and growth.
Advancing standards to guide your carbon accounting
We provide transparency into our methodologies, learnings and estimation efforts to better understand the energy transition and help build confidence in the market.
Emissions Methodologies
Methodologies Guide
This methodology guide has been designed to give a high-level overview of the methodologies used to quantify methane and carbon intensities for commodities that are published on a monthly cadence into S&P Global’s Connect market data platform.
Emissions Guidebook
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are a critical metric for governments and investors as society seeks to reduce global emissions. However, there continues to be differences in the data quality, methodology, and how this information is reported.
The Emissions Guidebook is an evergreen document that provides the market with unparalleled transparency into S&P Global Energy approach, methodology and key assumptions behind all our emissions work.
We encourage market participants to freely reference and make use of its methodologies. Using these methods supports greater consistency and ensures comparisons made with S&P Global Energy estimates are comparable.
Part 5: Commodity Carbon Intensity Methodologies
Thought Leadership
Video Series: Emissions Explored
In this series of videos in our “Connective Wisdom” series, we sit down with our senior emissions experts from our Center of Emissions Excellence to explore key topics around emissions accounting, carbon intensity, data quality, and more.
Learn More About Our Emissions Solutions
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Upstream
Our emissions data covers more than 6m wells globally and offer an unparalleled level of granularity and historic emissions detail. This extensive dataset includes both Scope 1 (direct emissions) and Scope 2 (indirect emissions from purchased electricity) emissions0 by type (CO2, CH4, and N2O) and source (combustion, flaring, fugitives and venting. Each estimation comes with Data Quality Metric to provide the degree of confidence in it.
This enables identification of poorly performing assets, the targeting of abatement activity, performance comparisons to be made with peers and for organizations to reach their sustainability objectives.
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Refining & Fuels
Facility level estimates for over 90% of global refineries, expanding regional carbon intensity assessments of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and refinery and petrochemical emissions optimization simulation software.
- Refinery Cost & Margin Analytics
Cost, margin and GHG emissions by refinery, company, or region to evaluate competitiveness over time and as a result of market changes.
- Refinery Cost & Margin Analytics
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Chemicals
- Refinery and Petrochemical Integrator and Decarbonizer (RAPID)
Analyze cost, margin and emissions impact on refineries and petrochemical facilities as a result of capital investments and configuration. - Technology Profiles – Process Economics Program (PEP) Reports and Reviews, and PEP Yearbook (part of the Chemical Market Insights package)
- 2,100+ essential and emerging technologies, including sustainable and low carbon.
- Refinery and Petrochemical Integrator and Decarbonizer (RAPID)
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Metals/Mining
Coming soon
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Integrated Emissions Solutions
- Carbon & Scenarios: This offering empowers companies to navigate the energy transition and evaluate business strategies in an uncertain environment. With integrated energy outlooks, scenarios, and net zero cases extending to 2050, customers gain insights into the current and future pace of the energy transition and its impacts on the energy mix and emissions. The package provides comprehensive emissions data at regional, sector, company, and asset levels, enabling clients to develop and enhance their operational and strategic climate strategies.
Emissions coverage includes:
- Corporate Emissions Solution
A standardized data and analytics database and interactive tool that enables customers to identify, track, and benchmark corporate emissions, and their underlying assets across global sectors. - Energy Scenarios
Global energy scenarios, net zero emission cases, climate-related data, advanced visualization capabilities, and expert analysis to support corporate strategy, investments, and decision-making in the energy transition. - Grid emissions intensity of 60+ markets around the world, including all countries with major commercial and industrial activities
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Agriculture Sustainability
- Agriculture Sustainability offers tailored insights into the challenges and opportunities within the sustainability agriculture landscape by combining qualitative and quantitative information. Our emissions data allows you to effectively benchmark and forecast emissions to navigate sustainability transition on both global and commodity levels. We also offer estimation of emission intensities of the crops and regions under the different climate change scenarios. We provide the emissions intensity and breakdown of changes to emission sources and sinks due to the implementation of different sustainable agricultural strategies. This service is part of our Agriculture and Food Market Insights package.
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Advisory Solutions
- Advisory Solutions
Our expert consultants work with you to understand your challenges and develop tailored advisory solutions that are right for your organization and provide solutions to your greatest strategic, investment, and operational questions yet.
- Advisory Solutions
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Platts Price Assessments
Low-carbon prices
- Methane Intensity Premiums
Calculate the cost of bringing the methane intensity of one MMBtu of average natural gas production per production basin to 0. - Carbon Intensity Premiums
Carbon-intensity assessments across key commodities—including crude, refined product, LNG, natural gas, methanol, and key metals—to assess the relative carbon intensity and potential cost of carbon. All Carbon Intensity Price Assessments are available in our Carbon & Scenarios CSM+ Market Data offering. - Renewable Natural Gas Premiums
Capture the value of the environmental attributes of RNG (biogas captured from decomposing organic matter, such as landfills, livestock manure, or wastewater treatment facilities) above the price of pipeline natural gas.
- Methane Intensity Premiums
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