{"id":5784,"date":"2023-07-15T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2023-07-15T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:26:35","slug":"which-means-carbon-dioxide-equivalent-co%e2%82%82e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/15\/which-means-carbon-dioxide-equivalent-co%e2%82%82e\/","title":{"rendered":"What does carbon dioxide equivalent (CO\u2082e) mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>There are many different greenhouse gases, the most well-known of which is carbon dioxide.\u00a0<\/span><span>Different greenhouse gases affect the climate in different ways.\u00a0<\/span><span>Some remain in the atmosphere for a long time, but do not cause as much warming per kilogram of emissions as carbon dioxide, for example.\u00a0 <\/span><span>Others, such as methane, warm the Earth greatly but do not stay in the atmosphere for very long.\u00a0<\/span><span>There is a certain exchange rate that allows for comparison of different gases.\u00a0 <\/span><span>The exchange rate expresses how many kg of carbon dioxide emissions warm the climate as much as 1 kg of another greenhouse gas.\u00a0<\/span><span>The exchange rate is called the global warming potential and is usually abbreviated as GWP.\u00a0<\/span><span>By knowing the GWP of different gases, the overall climate impact of a product can be summarized in a single unit: kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (kg CO\u2082e).<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many different greenhouse gases, the best known of which is carbon dioxide. Different greenhouse gases affect the climate in different ways. Some stay in the atmosphere for a long time but do not cause as much warming per kilogram of emissions as carbon dioxide. Others, such as methane, warm the Earth a lot but do not stay in the atmosphere for very long. There is a certain exchange rate that allows you to compare different gases. [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}