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Emission factor from ProBas v02.44.152

Animal husbandry mix: dairy cow, EU, 2010

Europe · Cradle to farm gate · Any year

Each kilogram of this food counts as 1.11 kg CO₂e before it leaves the farm. ProBas gives one figure, for use in any year.

Value, cradle to farm gate

1.11kgCO₂e/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 2010

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

Where 1.11 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 1.11

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

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Food and agriculture › Animal products · Europe · per kg · Average

Cradle to farm gate · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR6

Boundary
Cradle to farm gate
Raw materials and capital goods
GWP method
IPCC AR6, 100-year horizon
Re-weighted by open-climate.ai from ProBas's AR5 figure of 1.1 kgCO₂e/kg
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Split by gas
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: partly 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

    • Raw materials
    Included

  2. Also counted

    • Capital goods
    Included

  3. Your record

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

    = 1.11

Outside this boundary

  • Manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Outbound transport
  • Retail
  • Use phase
  • Throwing away packaging and leftovers

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

  • Methane (CH₄)0.55750.3%
  • Nitrous oxide (N₂O)0.34130.8%
  • Fossil CO₂0.20918.9%

Σ 0.209 + 0.557 + 0.341 = 1.10751, which ProBas rounds to 1.11.

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

From ProBas

Translated from German
Mix of the various dairy cow housing systems in conventional agriculture
Show ProBas's original (German)
Mix der verschiedenen Milchkühenhaltungssysteme in der konventionellen Landwirtschaft

Source and licence

Publisher
Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency), ProBas
Library
ProBas v02.44.152
Record
d3830fd7-77bd-4286-8b0b-0c9b14a63250
Published
16 September 2020
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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-tierhaltungmixmilchkuheu-europe-kg-cradle_to_farm_gate-5f533179/?v=efv1-f6598b82b7f2052acd4b5bb58a4ea897

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