Each kilogram of this food counts as 0.745 kg CO₂e up to the shop shelf: 0.34 for agriculture, 0.0199 for land-use change, 0.207 for processing, 0.086 for packaging, 0.063 for transport and 0.0295 for distribution.
Value, cradle to store gate
0.745kgCO₂e/kg
Net total: fossil, biogenic and land use · GWP100 · AR5
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balanceOne value, for any year
CONCITO sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2024
- Region
- France FR
- Boundary
- Cradle to store gate
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 0.745 comes from
- Scope 3, cat. 10.3445.6%
- Scope 3, cat. 10.01992.7%
- Scope 3, cat. 10.20727.8%
- Scope 3, cat. 10.08611.5%
- Scope 3, cat. 10.0638.5%
- Scope 3, cat. 10.02954%
Σ 0.745: the six parts add up to CONCITO's published total.
Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 1 0.745
Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.
The factor, standardised
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Food and agriculture › Processed food · France · per kg · Average
Cradle to store gate · Net total · AR5
- BoundaryCradle to store gateCradle_to_distribution_gate plus retail storage and distribution. Learn more
- Cradle to store gate
- Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy, outbound transport, retail, recycling credit, capital goods, overheads and services and imported inputs
- GWP methodWhich IPCC assessment report's warming potentials convert each gas to CO₂e, and over how many years the warming is counted (GWP100: 100 years). Learn more
- IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
- Not on the record; set from CONCITO's method notes
- CO₂e basisWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Fossil only leaves out biogenic methane, land-use change and biogenic CO₂; excl. biogenic CO₂ counts biogenic methane but not the other two; net total counts every pool, net of removals. The same activity on two bases is two different numbers. Learn more
- Net totalFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
- Split by carbon origin, not by gas
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: not covered
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one kilogram of this food, from the farm to the shop shelf. Every step on it is counted.
Farm
Growing the crops or raising the animals, with their feed and fertiliser
Included0.34Land-use change
Included0.0199Processing
Turning the raw produce into the food, at the plant
Included0.207Packaging
Making the packaging the food is sold in
Included0.086Transport
Moving the food from the plant to the retailer
Included0.063Store
Storage at the warehouse and on the shelf
Included0.0295
Outside this boundary
- Use phase
- Throwing away packaging and leftovers
= 0.745 per kg
From CONCITO's record to a comparable factor
CONCITO publishes this factor as one record with six sub-lines. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
The total and its parts
Every gate and stage has its own page.
- Agriculture0.339736
- Land-use change0.0199228
- Processing0.207205
- Packaging0.0859544
- Transport0.0630498
- Distribution and retail0.0294639
About this factor
Filed by CONCITO under
Fruit/vegetable products
CONCITO publishes no description for this food.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- CONCITO
- Library
- CONCITO v1.2
- Record
- Ra00362
- Published
- 18 December 2025
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
The Big Climate Database v1.2, CONCITO / 2.-0 LCA consultants, CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/concito/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-concito-beet_red_canned-fr-kg-cradle_to_store_gate-8477160a/?v=efv1-19bbf9e460eab25770222f3c408ad6d4
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