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CO₂-eq.

CO₂-eq. is the abbreviation of carbon dioxide-equivalent.

Meaning of carbon dioxide-equivalent

Noun

carbon dioxide-equivalent (uncountable, abbreviation CO₂e or CO₂-eq.)

  1. A unit of measure of global warming potential denoting the mass of carbon dioxide that would have the same global warming effect as that of a given mass of some other given gas.
    • The global warming potential of twenty tons of N₂O is over five kilotons CO₂-eq.

Questions about CO₂-eq.

What is CO₂-eq. the abbreviation of?
CO₂-eq. is the abbreviation of carbon dioxide-equivalent.

Words near CO₂-eq. in the dictionary

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  2. Coțofănești
  3. CO₂
  4. CO₂ offset
  5. CO₂ offsets
  6. CO₂-eq.
  7. CO₂e
  8. cp
  9. CP Time
  10. CP-1252
  11. cp.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CO₂-eq. (page history and authors); carbon dioxide-equivalent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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