Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Our API delivers time-resolved Heatprint data straight into climate data and carbon accounting platforms, alongside existing emissions data. Clients get a single, unified dataset for decision-making and reporting. Contact us to discuss integration.

Yes, and you should. Avoiding near-term atmospheric heat is why you have emissions reduction targets in the first place. Heatprint targets sit alongside your CO₂e and targets and show how your plan reduces warming between now and 2050. In one illustrative pathway, a company targeting a 40% CO₂e reduction by 2030 achieves a 75% Heatprint reduction in the same period by prioritizing its fastest-acting heat drivers.

No, it builds on it. It tells you the actual impact, rather than simply the output of the CO₂e tonnes you are already reporting. Heatprint provides a time-resolved view of the warming behind those numbers.

We can build your Heatprint from your existing emissions inventory or calculate it from scratch.

Heatprint complements, rather than replaces, the emissions metrics that frameworks such as IFRS S2 require. Climate-risk disclosure rules now reach jurisdictions representing nearly 60% of global GDP. Heatprint gives you added, decision-useful evidence for transition planning, target-setting, and explaining how your actions reduce near-term warming and increase long-term operational resilience.

Because pollutants differ in how fast and how much they warm, the same tonnes of CO₂e can mean very different amounts of heat over the next 5, 10, or 25 years. For example:

• Composting vs. fleet electrification: for the same 1,000 t CO₂e reduced, a waste company’s composting expansion cut its 2050 Heatprint by 40% versus business-as-usual, compared with 16% for fleet electrification.
• Well-capping vs. CO₂-only credits: for the same 1,000 t CO₂e, capping leaking wells reduced 3.7x more heat over 10 years than a CO₂-only project.

Investors use Heatprint to quantify the near-term warming their holdings cause and to identify mitigation levers that reduce heat within their hold period. Credit buyers use it to compare, rank, and price credits and portfolios by the warming they prevent, not just the tonnes they represent.

Super pollutant mitigation projects often deliver far more near-term heat avoidance than their CO₂e suggests. A Heatprint makes that value visible, helping developers differentiate their projects, support higher credit valuations, and build Heatprint messaging and graphics into their stakeholder communications.

Most organizations start by establishing a baseline Heatprint from their existing carbon footprint. From there, we help you set Heatprint reduction targets and rank mitigation options by how much heat they avoid over various timeframes, with clear reporting and visuals for your team and stakeholders.

CO₂e-PLUS is a simple way for us to communicate how Total Climate Accounting complements rather than conflicts with traditional CO₂e accounting. Total Climate Accounting delivers everything CO₂e reports, plus the heat outcomes it misses (Heatprint). You keep your familiar CO₂e numbers and gain decision-relevant insight on top.

Heatprint is the only climate data product on the market that provides enterprises, investors and governments with a time-resolved view of how emissions and reductions affect atmospheric heat between now and 2050. A carbon footprint tells you how many tonnes of CO₂e you emitted or reduced. A Heatprint tells you the impact those emissions have, and when.

It covers CO₂ and all greenhouse gases, including the super pollutants that conventional CO₂e accounting undervalues (methane, HFCs) and leave out entirely (soot, smog).

We calculate Heatprints for any activity, enterprise, or portfolio (including carbon markets, private equity, philanthropic, etc.) to help customers get the greatest return on their climate investments. We use a proprietary methodology called Total Climate Accounting (based on the latest science, see below) to calculate and deliver Heatprints to our customers through reports or API.

Heatprints are calculated the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science. The Protocol was reviewed and endorsed by members of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the UNEP-convened Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).

Dr. Drew Shindell, Nicholas Professor of Earth Science at Duke University and Chair of the CCAC Scientific Advisory Panel, has called Total Climate Accounting the only methodology he knows of that covers every driver of climate change and quantifies impacts across multiple time periods. Our approach answers the 2026 Angera Declaration, in which some 250 leading climate scientists called for assessing emissions by their temperature impacts over time. Learn more about our science.

Total Climate Accounting is the methodology behind every Heatprint. It accounts for all heat drivers, not just CO₂ and other well-mixed greenhouse gases. That includes short-lived super pollutants, aerosols, and pollutants with a cooling effect. It also reports results over timeframes decision-makers plan around, such as 2030, 2040 and 2050, not just the conventional 100-year horizon.

It’s not “wrong”, but it is inadequate to get the job done. CO₂e measures how much you emit,

CO₂e converts each greenhouse gas to CO₂ using its warming averaged over 100 years (GWP100). That averaging dilutes the impact of pollutants that hit hard and fade fast. It also omits aerosols like black carbon (soot) as well as the precursors to smog – the main drivers of air pollution that together cause over 8 million deaths globally.

As a result, capital is misallocated, near-term risks are underestimated, and the fastest climate levers go unfunded. More than $2 trillion now flows into climate finance annually. The purpose of this massive global investment is to slow the warming faster, yet it is steered by a metric that fails to do just that between now and 2050.

We calculate Heatprints for an organization or for a region, facility, product, portfolio, or carbon credit.

Global warming is, at its root, caused by extra energy trapped in the climate system. A Heatprint reports that energy directly, in terajoules (TJ), so you can compare very different pollutants and mitigation strategies on one physical scale over a specific period.

To make results tangible, we translate them into everyday equivalents. For example, 1 TJ is roughly the energy of 134 U.S. households’ annual cooling load (about 2,070 kWh per household per year).

Roughly half of today’s global warming is driven by super pollutants such as methane, HFCs, black carbon, and low-level ozone. They warm the planet far more strongly than CO₂ while they are in the atmosphere. Many also harm human health and ecosystems.

Because many of them are short-lived, cutting them slows warming within years, not decades. Reducing these pollutants could avoid up to 0.6°C of warming by 2050, compared with about 0.1°C from CO₂ reductions alone over the same period. Cutting CO₂ remains essential for the long term but reducing super pollutants is the fastest lever we have for the critical next decade.