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Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152

Food manufacturing: sugar, 0LUC-BR-2015

Brazil · Cradle to gate · Any year

Each kilogram of this food counts as 0.13 kg CO₂e up to the factory gate. ProBas gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value, cradle to gate

0.13kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR6

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2015

Region
Brazil BR
Boundary
Cradle to gate
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · ProBas terms

Where 0.13 comes from

Published as one number

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

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 0.13

Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.

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Food and agriculture › Processed food · Brazil · per kg · Average

Cradle to gate · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Cradle to gate
Raw materials, inbound transport, fuel supply, fuel combustion, manufacturing, packaging, purchased energy and capital goods
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 0.128 kgCO₂e/kg
CO₂e basis
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

What this number covers

What ProBas counts in the figure for one kilogram, phase by phase.

  1. Upstream

    • Inbound transport
    • Raw materials
    • Upstream fuel (well-to-tank)
    Included

  2. Production

    • Fuel combustion
    • Manufacturing
    • Packaging
    • Purchased electricity and heat
    Included

  3. Also counted

    • Capital goods
    Included

  4. Your record

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

    = 0.13

Outside this boundary

  • Installation
  • Maintenance
  • Outbound transport
  • Retail
  • Use phase
  • Throwing away packaging and leftovers
  • Recycling credits

ProBas does not count any of this in the figure for one kilogram.

Gases

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

  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.081662.9%
  • Fossil CO₂0.026720.6%
  • Methane (CH₄)0.021416.5%

Σ 0.0267 + 0.0214 + 0.0816 = 0.129723, which ProBas rounds to 0.13.

Also printed, as zero: sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆).

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

ProBas publishes no description for this food. Filed under Herstellung von Nahrungs- und Futtermitteln sowie Getränken › Herstellung von Zucker.

Source and licence

Publisher
Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
Library
ProBas v02.44.152
Record
31ab0c36-1226-4817-a7bc-605810611542
Published
16 September 2020
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Credit it with this lineProBas, Umweltbundesamt
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ProBas, Umweltbundesamt. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/probas/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-probas-ngherstellungzucker0lucb-br-kg-cradle_to_gate-77cf1b99/?v=efv1-b5f765131d10716dc77026938fae1f20

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