Italy hotel night: carbon footprint per room-night
Live factor value
14.3 kgCO2e per room-night
Source: UK DESNZ greenhouse-gas conversion factors, 2026 (revision 2). Factor set desnz-2026-r2.
Italy's hotel-night factor — live below from the DESNZ 2026 table — sits in the upper-middle of European destinations: the country generates most of its electricity from natural gas, without the nuclear baseload that keeps France low or the wind share that is pulling Spain down.
Climate plays a part too: southern-Italian summers mean real air-conditioning loads per occupied room, which the per-room-night average absorbs. A Rome city break's hotel footprint is still small next to the flights — but two to three times the same nights in Paris.
Worked example
A three-night Rome city break: 3 × 14.3 = 42.9 kgCO2e.
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Frequently asked questions
- Does air conditioning change a hotel's footprint?
- Yes — cooling load is part of why warmer countries tend to have higher per-room-night factors, on top of their grid mix. The DESNZ averages bake both effects in per country.