Climatiq API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Climatiq API
  version: '3'
  description: >-
    Climatiq is a carbon emissions calculation API that gives developers
    programmatic access to a curated database of emission factors and to
    purpose-built calculation endpoints. The API exposes search over the
    factor catalog and a family of estimation endpoints for activity-based
    and spend-based calculations across travel, freight, energy, cloud
    computing, procurement, and CBAM workflows. Authentication uses an API
    key sent as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. Responses are
    JSON with deterministic emission outputs in CO2e (kg) plus the underlying
    factor metadata.
  contact:
    name: Climatiq Support
    url: https://www.climatiq.io/support
  license:
    name: Climatiq Terms of Service
    url: https://www.climatiq.io/legal/terms
servers:
  - url: https://api.climatiq.io
    description: Climatiq Production API
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Search
    description: Discover emission factors in the Climatiq dataset.
  - name: Estimate
    description: Activity-based emission estimation.
  - name: Travel
    description: Emissions from passenger travel and accommodation.
  - name: Freight
    description: Multi-modal freight emissions using GLEC factors.
  - name: Energy
    description: Emissions from electricity, heat, and fuel consumption.
  - name: Computing
    description: Cloud computing carbon footprint.
  - name: Procurement
    description: Spend-based emissions for purchased goods and services.
  - name: Autopilot
    description: AI-driven automated emissions calculation.
  - name: Classifications
    description: Industry classification mappings for emission factors.
  - name: CBAM
    description: EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism reporting.
  - name: Reference
    description: Reference data such as regions and unit types.
paths:
  /data/v1/search:
    get:
      operationId: searchEmissionFactors
      summary: Search emission factors
      description: >-
        Returns a paginated list of emission factors matching the given
        query, region, year, source, sector, and other filter parameters.
        Used to discover the activity_id needed for estimation calls.
      tags:
        - Search
      parameters:
        - name: query
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: data_version
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: region
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: year
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
        - name: source
          in: query
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: page
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 1
        - name: results_per_page
          in: query
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 10
            maximum: 500
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Matching emission factors.
  /data/v1/estimate:
    post:
      operationId: estimateEmissions
      summary: Estimate emissions for an activity
      description: >-
        Calculates CO2e emissions by combining a selected emission factor
        (via activity_id or emission_factor object) with caller-supplied
        activity parameters such as energy used, distance, money spent, or
        weight moved.
      tags:
        - Estimate
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/EstimationRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Calculated emission estimate.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/EstimationResponse'
  /travel/v1/car:
    post:
      operationId: estimateTravelCar
      summary: Estimate car travel emissions
      description: Calculates emissions for passenger car travel based on distance and vehicle parameters.
      tags:
        - Travel
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Car travel emissions.
  /travel/v1/flight:
    post:
      operationId: estimateTravelFlight
      summary: Estimate flight emissions
      description: Calculates passenger flight emissions for one or more legs using IATA airport codes and class of travel.
      tags:
        - Travel
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Flight emissions estimate.
  /travel/v1/hotel:
    post:
      operationId: estimateTravelHotel
      summary: Estimate hotel stay emissions
      description: Calculates emissions associated with hotel accommodation by country, number of nights, and number of rooms.
      tags:
        - Travel
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Hotel stay emissions.
  /freight/v3/intermodal:
    post:
      operationId: estimateFreightIntermodal
      summary: Estimate intermodal freight emissions
      description: Calculates well-to-wheel freight emissions across multi-leg journeys using GLEC factors for sea, air, road, and rail.
      tags:
        - Freight
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Freight emissions per leg and total.
  /energy/v1/electricity:
    post:
      operationId: estimateElectricity
      summary: Estimate electricity emissions
      description: Calculates Scope 2 electricity emissions for a given region and amount of energy consumed, with optional location-based and market-based methods.
      tags:
        - Energy
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Electricity emission estimate.
  /energy/v1/heat-and-steam:
    post:
      operationId: estimateHeatSteam
      summary: Estimate heat and steam emissions
      description: Calculates emissions from purchased heat or steam using region-appropriate factors.
      tags:
        - Energy
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Heat and steam emission estimate.
  /energy/v1/fuel:
    post:
      operationId: estimateFuel
      summary: Estimate fuel combustion emissions
      description: Calculates Scope 1 emissions for combustion of liquid, gaseous, and solid fuels.
      tags:
        - Energy
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Fuel emission estimate.
  /compute/v1/cpu:
    post:
      operationId: estimateCloudCpu
      summary: Estimate cloud CPU emissions
      description: Calculates the CO2e of CPU usage on a cloud provider, automatically selecting region-specific grid factors.
      tags:
        - Computing
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Cloud CPU emission estimate.
  /compute/v1/memory:
    post:
      operationId: estimateCloudMemory
      summary: Estimate cloud memory emissions
      description: Calculates emissions from RAM usage on a cloud provider in a specified region.
      tags:
        - Computing
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Cloud memory emission estimate.
  /compute/v1/storage:
    post:
      operationId: estimateCloudStorage
      summary: Estimate cloud storage emissions
      description: Calculates emissions from object or block storage on a cloud provider in a specified region.
      tags:
        - Computing
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Cloud storage emission estimate.
  /procurement/v1/spend:
    post:
      operationId: estimateProcurementSpend
      summary: Estimate spend-based procurement emissions
      description: Calculates Scope 3.1 emissions from purchased goods and services using expenditure data and EEIO factors.
      tags:
        - Procurement
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Procurement spend emission estimate.
  /autopilot/v1:
    post:
      operationId: autopilotEstimate
      summary: Calculate emissions automatically with Autopilot
      description: Uses Climatiq's NLP model to interpret a free-text description and automatically select an emission factor and method.
      tags:
        - Autopilot
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Autopilot emission estimate.
  /classifications/v2:
    get:
      operationId: listClassifications
      summary: List supported industry classifications
      description: Returns the list of supported industry-classification systems and how they map to Climatiq emission factors.
      tags:
        - Classifications
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Available classification systems.
  /cbam/v1:
    post:
      operationId: estimateCbam
      summary: Estimate CBAM embedded emissions
      description: Calculates embedded emissions for goods covered by the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.
      tags:
        - CBAM
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: CBAM emission estimate.
  /data/v1/regions:
    get:
      operationId: listRegions
      summary: List supported regions
      description: Returns the geographic regions Climatiq supports for region-specific emission factors.
      tags:
        - Reference
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Supported regions.
  /data/v1/unit-types:
    get:
      operationId: listUnitTypes
      summary: List supported unit types
      description: Returns the unit types accepted by estimation endpoints (energy, distance, weight, money, etc.).
      tags:
        - Reference
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Supported unit types.
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API Key
  schemas:
    EstimationRequest:
      type: object
      required:
        - emission_factor
        - parameters
      properties:
        emission_factor:
          type: object
          properties:
            activity_id:
              type: string
            data_version:
              type: string
            region:
              type: string
            year:
              type: integer
            source:
              type: string
        parameters:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
    EstimationResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        co2e:
          type: number
        co2e_unit:
          type: string
          example: kg
        co2e_calculation_method:
          type: string
        co2e_calculation_origin:
          type: string
        emission_factor:
          type: object
        constituent_gases:
          type: object
          properties:
            co2:
              type: number
            ch4:
              type: number
            n2o:
              type: number
        activity_data:
          type: object