Value, cradle to gate
2.59kgCO₂e/kg active substance
Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventoriesOne value, for any year
ERASM sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2011
Derived by open-climate.ai
- Region
- European Union (27)
- Boundary
- Cradle to gate
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · CC BY 4.0
Where 2.59 comes from
open-climate.ai adds up the gases ERASM publishes, each weighted by its warming potential.
Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol
Scope 3, category 1 2.59
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Food and agriculture › Processed food · European Union (27) · per kg active substance · Average
Cradle to gate · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6
- BoundaryCradle to gateExtraction of raw materials through production, up to the producer's factory gate. Learn more
- Cradle to gate
- Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing and purchased energy
- 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 AR6, 100-year horizon
- Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ERASM's AR4 figure of 2.37 kgCO₂e/kg active substance · impact method CML 2001 baseline
- 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
- Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Split by gas
- Life cycle
- Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
Where the carbon comes from
ERASM splits every value by the origin of its carbon. Most of it is not fossil at all.
By carbon origin
- Fossil
- 0.827
- 31.9%
- BiogenicGreenhouse gases from recently living carbon, not from fossil fuels. Methane counts in your scopes whatever its origin, so it stays in the total. Learn more · a removal
- −3.9
- −150.3%
By gas
- Methane (CH₄)
- 1.53
- 58.8%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.24
- 9.3%
All values
2 values for the same period, one per method.
2.59 kgCO₂e/kg active substance, AR6 GWP100, with no date window.
Default valueThe default: what search results and the API return when you ask for no method.
| Method | Value |
|---|---|
| −1.31 | |
| 2.59Default valueDerived by open-climate.ai |
- Default: what search and the API return when you ask for nothing specific
- Derived by open-climate.ai
What this number covers
What ERASM counts in the figure for 1 kg active substance, phase by phase.
Upstream
- Inbound transport
- Raw materials
- Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
IncludedProduction
- Fuel combustion
- Manufacturing
- Purchased electricity and heat
IncludedYour record
1 kg active substance in your records. The factor is per kg active substance.
= 2.59
Outside this boundary
- Installation
- Maintenance
- Outbound transport
- Retail
- Use phase
- Throwing away packaging and leftovers
- Recycling credits
ERASM does not count any of this in the figure for 1 kg active substance.
Gases
Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂Biogenic CO₂ and land-use change are left out; fossil CO₂, the other greenhouse gases and methane from biogenic sources are counted. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
- Biogenic CO₂−3.9−150.3%
- Methane (CH₄)1.5358.8%
- Fossil CO₂0.82731.9%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.249.3%
- Rest, not split by gas Derived by open-climate.ai3.9150.3%
The rest is not split by gas: open-climate.ai works it out as the 2.59 total less the gases ERASM prints.
Also printed, as zero: land-use CO₂.
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic CO₂ and land-use carbon are left out, while methane from biogenic sources is counted.
From ERASM's record to a comparable factor
ERASM publishes the inputs; open-climate.ai computed this value from them. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.
About this factor
ERASM publishes no description for this food. Filed under Precursors.
Source and licence
- Value
- Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
- Publisher
- ERASM (A.I.S.E. / CESIO)
- Library
- ERASM SLE 2014 (IJLCA 2018)
- Published
- 14 August 2017
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
Cite this factor
Schowanek D, Borsboom-Patel T, Bouvy A, et al. (2018) New and updated life cycle inventories for surfactants used in European detergents: summary of the ERASM surfactant life cycle and ecofootprinting project. Int J Life Cycle Assess 23:867-886. doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1384-x. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/erasm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-erasm-beef_tallow-eu27-kg_active_su-cradle_to_gate-d46d01d8/?v=efv1-ee9d4c313acacf17d0b8a914444569b4
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