How much CO2 does pressing coconut oil emit per litre?
Expellers and filters run on electricity: kWh times 0.710 kg CO2, divided by litres of oil. Copra drying before pressing is usually larger and belongs to whoever dries it. Packaging and freight are Scope 3.
Records
- Expeller and filter press electricity.
- Litres or kg of oil produced, and cake sold.
- Copra purchases with the drier's fuel if you can get it.
Oil cake
Cake is a co product. Split emissions between oil and cake by mass or value, and say which.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the plant's electricity bills (CEA grid factor 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh, CO2 Baseline Database version 21.0) and fuel invoices (IPCC 2006 defaults) into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, the plant-level input to a per-unit figure. Bought-in materials go to the supplier evidence trail; product reports are self-declared drafts.
Sources: CEA CO2 Baseline Database, GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-22.