ethereum-emissions-calculator

Ethereum Carbon Emissions Calculator

Made with ♥ by Offsetra.com for carbon.fyi. Questions, comments, forks and PRs all very much appreciated!

License: NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. To request a commercial-use license contact [e-mail].

Summary

JavaScript utility to calculate the CO2 emissions of any Ethereum address or contract.

The tool is written in TypeScript and powered by the the Etherscan.io API & an open-source carbon accounting methodology under development by Offsetra. We hope this tool is useful for raising awareness and understanding with regards to the rapidly growing carbon emissions of cryptocurrency mining.

Usage

This calculator should work in any client or server-side JavaScript environment.

npm install ethereum-emissions-calculator

The calculator exports two methods:

• calculateAddressEmissions
• calculateContractEmissions

calculateAddressEmissions

calculateAddressEmissions will only allocate emissions for outgoing (sent) transactions.

Provide an address, and the calculator will tell you how many emissions this represents in KG CO2e. To calculate the sum total emissions for an address, you must combine the sum of eth, erc20, and erc721 emissions.

import { calculateAddressEmissions } from "ethereum-emissions-calculator";
import { address, etherscanAPIKey } from "data";

const emissions = await calculateAddressEmissions({
  address, // 0x12345[...]
  etherscanAPIKey,
});

// returns:
export interface AddressEmissionsResult {
  /** The total carbon footprint for all transactions of the provided type, sent from the provided address. In Kilograms of CO2e */
  kgCO2: number;
  /** The total number of transactions included for this query. */
  transactionsCount: number;
  /** Total sum of Gas Used for all transactions */
  gasUsed: number;
  /** False means the 10k limit was hit, so only the most recent 10k transactions were analyzed. */
  done: boolean;
  /** The block number of the most recent transaction found in the query */
  highestBlockNumber: number;
  /** The block number of the oldest transaction found in the query  */
  lowestBlockNumber: number;
}

calculateContractEmissions

The only difference between this method and calculateAddressEmissions, is that this method will also calculate and add emissions from incoming transactions. We have included this method at the request of platforms who are interested in calculating the collective impact of their contract, however for most cases we think calculateAddressEmissions makes more sense (to avoid double-counting the same emissions-- sender takes responsibility!)

Caveats & Breaking Changes

As of version 2.0 and greater, each invocation of calculateAddressEmissions() or calculateAddressEmissions() will return a maximum of 10k transactions. Before version 2.0, the calculator attempted to recursively fetch the remaining transactions until the entire history had been retrieved. This caused problems with huge addresses or lower-memory devices. It is now up to the developer to re-fetch the remaining transactions (the calculator now returns the highestBlockNumber and lowestBlockNumber to help you find the next chunk).

Methodology

The total emissions are derived from the amount of gas used for each transaction. See https://carbon.fyi/learn for a brief intro and link to more in-depth explainers.