# Carbonlink API

## Carbonlink API

- [Welcome to Carbonlink](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/welcome-to-carbonlink.md): Embed emission tracking and offsetting to overcome your carbon footprint.
- [How Carbonlink Works](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/how-carbonlink-works.md)
- [Installation](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/installation.md): Get setup with our developer toolkits.
- [Handling Errors & Limits](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/handling-errors-and-limits.md): Learn more about common errors to debug your application faster.
- [Response Codes](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/handling-errors-and-limits/response-codes.md)
- [Rate Limiting](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/handling-errors-and-limits/rate-limiting.md)
- [Use Cases](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/guides/use-cases.md)
- [E-Commerce](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/guides/use-cases/e-commerce.md)
- [Carbon Accounting](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/guides/use-cases/carbon-accounting.md)
- [Carbon Solution Providers](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/guides/use-cases/carbon-solution-providers.md)
- [API reference](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference.md): Learn how to retrieve data and execute actions with different API endpoints
- [Product](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference/product.md): Build templates for automating emission estimations
- [Factor](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference/factor.md): Find emission factors in the Carbonlink Emission Factor Database
- [Asset](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference/asset.md): Search through hundreds of sustainability projects and pools.
- [Offset](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference/offset.md): Use carbon credits from the Carbonlink Asset Library to negate carbon emissions.
- [Estimate](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/api-reference/estimate.md): Track carbon emissions at the source.
- [Data objects](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects.md): Learn types and structure of data returned by different API endpoints
- [Factor](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/factor.md): Contains data related to the individual emission contributions of a single physical or financial property of a good or service.
- [Product](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/product.md): Contains data related to the estimation of a good or service's emissions from a set of underlying emission factors.
- [Asset](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/asset.md): Wraps around a Pool or Project object to provide additional data on a carbon asset.
- [Project](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/asset/project.md): Contains data about a carbon credit project from the Carbonlink Asset Library.
- [Vintage](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/asset/project/vintage.md): Contains data on one year of carbon asset production for a project.
- [Pool](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/asset/pool.md): Contains data about a carbon credit Pool from the Carbonlink Asset Library.
- [Estimate](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/estimate.md): Contains data related to the emission estimation of one or more goods and services.
- [Offset](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/core/data-objects/offset.md): Contains data related to the action of purchasing an amount of carbon credits and removing that amount of credits from circulation.
- [Defining Emissions](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/defining-emissions.md)
- [The Scope System](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/defining-emissions/the-scope-system.md)
- [CO2 Equivalents](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/defining-emissions/co2-equivalents.md)
- [Carbon Markets 101](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/carbon-markets-101.md)
- [What is A Carbon Credit?](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/carbon-markets-101/what-is-a-carbon-credit.md)
- [Environmental Impact of Offsetting](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/carbon-markets-101/environmental-impact-of-offsetting.md)
- [How Are Credits Generated & Verified?](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/carbon-markets-101/how-are-credits-generated-and-verified.md)
- [Methodologies](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/methodologies.md)
- [Carbon Credit Methodologies](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/methodologies/carbon-credit-methodologies.md)
- [Estimate Methodology](https://carbonlink.gitbook.io/carbonlink-api/resources/methodologies/estimate-methodology.md)


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