KING Metrics

Estimating the potential CO2 emissions of a fossil fuel project is easy. Below you find a table that can help calculate them. The Keep it in the Ground (KING) Movement works to keep millions of tons of CO2 in the ground. With this method which we call “KING Metrics” it becomes easy to quantify how much.

You need to find out the size or capacity of the project in question in one of the commonly mentioned formats below (kbpd, bcm, tcf, mt, bbl, boe, etc.) and then multiply that with the factor in the tables below to arrive at potential emissions in million tons of CO2.
The emissions factors are from:

Kühne, Kjell (2021) Big numbers for bold activists: A quick method for estimating potential emissions of fossil fuel projects. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 79, September 2021, 102172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102172

Here is the full (academic) article with the method and caveats. If you have any questions or would like to get the pdf of the article, please get in touch.