Agricultural process emissions: emission factors

Agricultural emission processes: enteric CH4, manure management, soil N2O. From 3 libraries, filed in one model so one publisher's factor compares with another's.

CategoryDirect emissions
Factors
67
Libraries
3
With their own page
2
Units with a page
item · kg N
Largest library

38 factors, 57%

What the 2 factor pages say

One chart per unit, since a kilogram and a kWh do not compare. Colour is the boundary, what the factor counts; every row also names it.

Boundary not stated

Per item

MfE puts Agricultural soils (live stock) - Deer at 65.4 kgCO₂e/item (Boundary not stated, 2024), the only factor page in this unit.

Per kg N

ADEME puts Organic fertilizers spreading - déjections animales, végétaux, compost, boues de station d'épuration... at 6.01 kgCO₂e/kg N (Boundary not stated, 2015), the only factor page in this unit.

Source: the published factor pages, catalogue version 591.

Who publishes these factors

3 libraries publish them. Each name opens the library's page.

MfE (38) and IPCC (22) hold 90% of them; the third publishes the rest (7).

Source: open-climate.ai catalogue, version 591, coverage summed over libraries.

Every factor page

Sorted by library. Each factor is also on its library's page.

ActivityLibraryRegionBoundaryValueYear
Organic fertilizers spreading - déjections animales, végétaux, compost, boues de station d'épuration...ADEMEFranceBoundary not stated6.01 kgCO₂e/kg N2015
Agricultural soils (live stock) - DeerMfENew ZealandBoundary not stated65.4 kgCO₂e/item2024

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