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Create a company emission estimate

Estimate emissions produced by a company. This includes office-related emissions, employee transportation, food, drinks, electronic equipment and computing/networking operations.

The result is an estimate of a year-worth of company emissions.

Parameters
monthsinteger

Number of months covered by the emission estimate

employeesintegerrequired

Number of employees

remote_employees_percentageintegerrequired
office_areaobjectrequired
country_codestringrequired

The three-letter country code of the country where the company is located.

postcodestring

The company's postal code

citystring
electricity_consumptionintegerrequired

Electricity consumption in kWh

green_electricity_usedbooleanrequired

Is the electricity provided by renewable source(s)?

gas_consumptionintegerrequired

Yearly natural gas consumption in cubic meters

company_carsintegerrequired

Company cars

average_car_distance_travelledobjectrequired
employees_using_public_transportintegerrequired

Number of employees commuting by public transport

short_flightsintegerrequired

Number of short (under 3 hours) flights per year

medium_flightsintegerrequired

Number of medium (between 3 and 6 hours) flights per year

long_flightsintegerrequired

Number of long (over 6 hours) flights per year

first_or_business_class_percentageintegerrequired
food_and_drinks_expensesobjectrequired
vegetarian_and_vegan_percentageintegerrequired
electronic_device_expensesobjectrequired
garbageintegerrequired

The amount of garbage produced, in kilograms

recycled_garbage_percentageintegerrequired
techobject
bundle_selectionarray of object

Bundle selection percentages.

The sum of all percentages must equal 100.

If not specified, the preconfigured allocation ratios are going to be used.

If, for each selection, percentage is not provided, the selection is divided equally (best effort) between bundles. percentage must be provided for all or none of the bundles.

namestring

A name to reference this calculation.

metadataobject

An arbitrary dictionary (key-value pairs) to store application-specific information.

Lune doesn't use this information for order processing. Its purpose is for the API clients to be able to attach arbitrary information (to an order for example) and then retrieve it.

idempotency_keystring

Account-unique identifier provided by the client.

idempotency_key has two purposes:

  1. Clients can safely retry estimate requests without accidentally performing the same operation multiple times.
  2. Clients can use idempotency_key to reconcile estimates with entities on their system.
Returns
massobjectrequired
metadataobject

An arbitrary dictionary (key-value pairs) to store application-specific information.

Lune doesn't use this information for order processing. Its purpose is for the API clients to be able to attach arbitrary information (to an order for example) and then retrieve it.

idempotency_keystring

Account-unique identifier provided by the client.

idempotency_key has two purposes:

  1. Clients can safely retry estimate requests without accidentally performing the same operation multiple times.
  2. Clients can use idempotency_key to reconcile estimates with entities on their system.
idstringrequired

The emission calculation unique identifier

quoterequired
requestobjectrequired

Parameters for estimating emissions associated with operating a company.

All relevant values are yearly values.

scope1objectrequired
scope2objectrequired
scope3objectrequired
componentsobjectrequired
  • POST /estimates/company
    • curl 'https://api.lune.co/v1/estimates/company' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -X POST \
  -d '{
    "employees": 1,
    "remote_employees_percentage": 1,
    "amount": "40.501",
    "unit": "km",
    "country_code": "GBR",
    "electricity_consumption": 1,
    "green_electricity_used": true,
    "gas_consumption": 1,
    "company_cars": 1,
    "employees_using_public_transport": 1,
    "short_flights": 1,
    "medium_flights": 1,
    "long_flights": 1,
    "first_or_business_class_percentage": 1,
    "value": "3.14",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "vegetarian_and_vegan_percentage": 1,
    "garbage": 1,
    "recycled_garbage_percentage": 1,
    "on_premise": {
      "electricity_cost": {
        "value": "3.14",
        "currency": "GBP"
      }
    },
    "cloud": {
      "cost": {
        "value": "3.14",
        "currency": "GBP"
      },
      "provider": "aws"
    }
  }'
  • Response
    • {
  "mass": {
    "amount": "40.501",
    "unit": "t"
  },
  "idempotency_key": "5bd808a954e",
  "id": "90ng23MKvLqbkpMwMw7yMBD4wJQrV6O6",
  "quote": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "error_code": "account_suspended",
        "message": "message"
      }
    ],
    "error": {
      "error_code": "account_suspended",
      "message": "message"
    }
  },
  "request": {
    "months": 12,
    "employees": 1,
    "remote_employees_percentage": 1,
    "office_area": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "square_meters"
    },
    "country_code": "GBR",
    "postcode": "99 210",
    "city": "Ledville",
    "electricity_consumption": 1,
    "green_electricity_used": true,
    "gas_consumption": 1,
    "company_cars": 1,
    "average_car_distance_travelled": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "km"
    },
    "employees_using_public_transport": 1,
    "short_flights": 1,
    "medium_flights": 1,
    "long_flights": 1,
    "first_or_business_class_percentage": 1,
    "food_and_drinks_expenses": {
      "value": "3.14",
      "currency": "GBP"
    },
    "vegetarian_and_vegan_percentage": 1,
    "electronic_device_expenses": {
      "value": "3.14",
      "currency": "GBP"
    },
    "garbage": 1,
    "recycled_garbage_percentage": 1,
    "tech": {
      "on_premise": {
        "electricity_cost": {
          "value": "3.14",
          "currency": "GBP"
        }
      },
      "cloud": {
        "cost": {
          "value": "3.14",
          "currency": "GBP"
        },
        "provider": "aws"
      }
    },
    "bundle_selection": [
      {
        "bundle_id": "BmWxrvXo29eGqzA1qjANL5PwnkgaO8R3",
        "percentage": 34
      },
      {
        "bundle_id": "VndoQ0PZjGMzvYOZGwqy6kbgN1eOJx9B",
        "percentage": 66
      }
    ],
    "quantity_trunc": "t",
    "name": "name",
    "idempotency_key": "5bd808a954e"
  },
  "scope1": {
    "amount": "40.501",
    "unit": "t"
  },
  "scope2": {
    "amount": "40.501",
    "unit": "t"
  },
  "scope3": {
    "amount": "40.501",
    "unit": "t"
  },
  "components": {
    "material_and_waste": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    },
    "energy": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    },
    "travel_and_commute": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    },
    "food_and_drink": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    },
    "tech": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    },
    "remote_employee": {
      "amount": "40.501",
      "unit": "t"
    }
  }
}