Emission factor from IPCC
Representative Methane Emissions from Rice Paddy Fields in Various Locations of the World - CH4; Experimental Treatment: Not available; Kalyani, West Bengal
India · Process emissions · Any year
Value for any year
0.322kgCO₂e/m²
GWP100 · IPCC AR6
One value, for any year
IPCC sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 1996
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- Region
- India IN
- Boundary
- Process emissions
- Data quality
- LowRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · IPCC terms
Where 0.322 comes from
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Reporting this square metre under the GHG Protocol
Scope 1 0.322
Gas that escapes from equipment you run is a direct emission, so it is your Scope 1.
The factor, standardised
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Direct emissions › Agricultural process emissions · India · per m² · Generic
Process emissions · Net total · AR6
- BoundaryProcess emissionsThe direct non-combustion emissions of an industrial, agricultural or waste process itself, per unit of its activity: the gas its chemistry or biology releases (CO2 from calcining carbonates or from a reductant, CH4 from enteric fermentation, a flooded paddy or stored manure, N2O from nitrogen applied to soil or from nitric and adipic acid). Learn more
- Process emissions
- 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
- Not on the record; set from IPCC'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 gas
- Life cycle
- Upstream: not coveredProduction: partly coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered
Low quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
What IPCC counts in the figure for one square metre, phase by phase.
Your record
1 m² in your records. The factor is per m².
= 0.322
Outside this boundary
- Power the unit uses
- Fugitive releases
IPCC does not count any of this in the figure for one square metre.
Gases
Basis: Net totalEvery carbon pool, biogenic and land use included, net of removals, so it can sit below the fossil figure, or even below zero. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance
- Methane (CH₄)0.322
Each gas is converted to CO₂e with AR6 100-year warming potentials; biogenic and land-use carbon are counted.
From IPCC's record to a comparable factor
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About this factor
From IPCC
Where it applies
Experimental Treatment: Not availableSource and licence
- Value
- Computed by open-climate.ai from the gas values in this record
- Publisher
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- Library
- IPCC
- Record
- 43339
- Published
- 30 July 2026
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IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB), Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/ipcc/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-ipcc-representative_methane-in-m2-process_direct-4fbc0646/?v=efv1-9b12a31fd5c829dce7852a73d5f55109
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