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Emission factor from MfE 2026-v2

Agricultural soils (live stock) - Deer

New Zealand · Process emissions · Any year

Each animal counts as 65.4 kg CO₂e. MfE gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value for any year

65.4kgCO₂e/item

GWP100 · IPCC AR6

One value, for any year

MfE sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.

Reference year 2024

Region
New Zealand NZ
Boundary
Process emissions
Data quality
LowNo reason given by the publisher
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 65.4 comes from

Published as one number

MfE prints this factor as a single figure, with no parts to add up.

Reporting this item under the GHG Protocol

Scope 1 65.4

Gas that escapes from equipment you run is a direct emission, so it is your Scope 1.

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Direct emissions › Agricultural process emissions · New Zealand · per item · Average

Process emissions · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Process emissions
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from MfE's AR5 figure of 63.5 kgCO₂e/item
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
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 MfE counts in the figure for 1 item, phase by phase.

  1. Your record

    1 item in your records. The factor is per item.

    = 65.4

Outside this boundary

  • Power the unit uses
  • Fugitive releases

MfE does not count any of this in the figure for 1 item.

Gases

Basis: Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)65.4

Also printed, as zero: carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄).

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.

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About this factor

MfE gives no description for this factor. Filed under Agriculture, forestry and other land uses › Agricultural soils (live stock).

Source and licence

Publisher
New Zealand Ministry for the Environment (Manatu Mo Te Taiao)
Library
MfE 2026-v2
Record
0a677c49-6d0b-481a-93b8-58797b4a03bf
Published
29 May 2026
Open the record at MfE
CC BY 4.0 Open

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Credit it with this lineContains data from the Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand), Measuring Emissions Catalogue 2026-v2, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Includes factors MfE derives from the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) conversion factors and from the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index (HSBI).
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

Cite this factor

Contains data from the Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand), Measuring Emissions Catalogue 2026-v2, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Includes factors MfE derives from the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) conversion factors and from the Cornell Hotel Sustainability Benchmarking Index (HSBI). Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/mfe_nz/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-mfenz-agricultural_soils_live-nz-count_item-process_direct-dec6dffe/?v=efv1-38add6377b6107b06168112cd79815bf

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