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CO₂e

CO₂e 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.

Forms of CO₂e

alternative formCO2e

Questions about CO₂e

What is CO₂e the abbreviation of?
CO₂e is the abbreviation of carbon dioxide-equivalent.

Words near CO₂e in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CO₂e (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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