Climate API

Short glossary of API terminology, used among other places in our technical documentation.

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Ducky’s Calculate endpoints determine a user’s personal footprint in a given category based on personal habits and other data.

See how you can calculate your footprint with Ducky's open footprint calculator

Calculate a personal energy footprint from household information and habits. This can be used to put energy footprints in context and nudge users towards more sustainable energy use.

Calculate the footprint of a person’s financial transactions, adjusted with personal habit data. This can be used to nudge people towards more sustainable consumption practices.

Calculate a person’s food and beverage consumption and resulting household waste from dietary habits. The output is expressed in weight, footprint and cost, and can be used to efficiently nudge users towards more sustainable consumption.

Calculate a personal footprint for goods and services consumption, from shopping and maintenance habits. This can be used to nudge people towards more sustainable consumption practices.

Calculate the transport footprint for a person based on travelling habits. This can be used to nudge users towards more sustainable travel.

Get an individual footprint in kilograms of CO2-equivalents from household information and habits. This can be used to build your own climate calculator with as many inputs as you'd like.

Ducky’s Change endpoints serve customised tips to users on how to lower their climate footprints based on their personal habits and other data.

See how Ducky Insights API can be used for certifications and greenhouse gas emission reporting (scope 1-3) in order to fulfill supplier requirements

Learn how compare endpoints can help measure the status for an area and help users understand their footprints, see our methodology and sources.

Make comparisons between a user and a relevant average regarding footprints from food and drink consumption. This can be used to set goals or effectively influence users' behavior in context, for example in a customer loyalty app.

Fetch the average transport footprint for a person living in a given area. This can be used to compare footprints between areas, or look at the change in an area’s transport footprint over time.

Get footprint in kilograms of CO2-equivalents for energy usage by category

Get footprint in kilograms of CO2-equivalents for financial transactions by category

Get the footprint in kilograms of CO2-equivalents for a specified amount of calories or weight consumed for each food item

This endpoint provides the cradle-to-gate footprint of an item, and the carbon savings achieved as a result of circular actions like renting, repairing or buying a used item

Get footprint in kilograms of CO2-equivalents for transport usage by category. Compare different modes of transport on equal grounds and promote sustainable travel

Convert endpoints show the footprint of a given amount of something. See all available categories along with methodology and sources

Learn how Ducky calculates the electricity mix we use in our personal footprint calculations, climate communication and -nudging.

Get personalised tips on how to reduce your climate footprint based on your habits and household data.

Establish a reference point for the inhabitants' footprints in an area or to make comparisons between users and people like them. This can be very efficient for setting climate goals or influencing citizen behavior

Get answers to frequently asked questions about calculating climate footprints and search our glossary of professional terminology and important definitions.

There are many steps that you as an individual can take to reduce your footprint. Here are some tips!

See how to get started with Ducky Insights API and find our technical API documentation

Here's a short introduction to Ducky API

See how climate footprint calculations are made in Ducky's API, what research and methodology is used.

See how Ducky Insights API can be used by IT companies that offer applications and services to a professional audience (B2B)

Calculate scope 1 emissions from fuel use, distance travelled and money spent on fuel in your organisation, using Ducky's API

Calculate scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions from purchased electricity and heat in your organisation, using Ducky's API

Report GHG protocol compliant scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions from your entire value chain for your organisation

See how Ducky's endpoints can be used to compute Scope 1-3 emissions directly from data in your IT systems.

See how Ducky Insights API can be used in companies and organizations that supply sustainable products and services to a consumer audience

Ducky’s Track endpoints serve a set of indicators that reveal the drivers of climate footprints in a region, ranging from electric car ownership percentage to average home energy ratings in the region.

Fetch a set of indicators that give an overview of the mobility trends per person in a region

See how translation endpoints help explain and contextualize climate footprint with everyday examples

Translate climate footprint in kg CO2e to driving distance between two destinations

Translate climate footprint in kg CO2e to the usage of an electrical appliance for a certain period of time

Translate climate footprint in kg CO2e to flying distance between two destinations

Translate climate footprint in kg CO2e to what an area of trees absorbs during a given amount of time

API functionality for companies handling large investments such as housing or vehicles

API functionality for companies in the energy sector

API functionality for companies in the finance sector

API functionality for companies that sell food and drink or deliver IT systems to the sector

API functionality for companies that sell goods and services or deliver IT systems to the retail sector

API functionality for companies that sell transport products and services or deliver IT systems to the transport sector

See if Ducky Insights API data is available for your country or region

See what functionalities or endpoints are available in our API

Ducky does not sell carbon offsets, and we recommend all other courses of action to reduce personal and corporate footprint before purchasing offsets. An investment in carbon offsets should be carefully vetted, as the system is weak and often misused

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What international climate targets do we have, and what do they mean for an individual? How much do we really have to do as individuals to be sure we reach the Paris agreement?

See why you should connect to Ducky API and enrich your systems with climate data

See what is required of your company or organization to start using Ducky API, and see what user data is needed for different sectors.