Emission factor from RIVM

Sausage beef Braadworst - Cooled | Meat packaging (PP) - 1 kg

Netherlands · Cradle to store gate · Any year

Each kilogram of this food counts as 18 kg CO₂e up to the shop shelf, including 17.2 for cradle to distribution gate.

Value, cradle to store gate

18kgCO₂e/kg

Biogenic CO₂ and land use excluded · GWP100 · AR5

FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories

One value, for any year

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

Reference year 2024

Region
Netherlands NL
Boundary
Cradle to store gate
Data quality
MediumRated by us, not by the source
Licence
Open · CC BY 4.0

Where 18 comes from

17.2 of it sits inside the total, 18, and is never added to it. The other 0.784 is not published as a part of its own.

Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol

Scope 3, category 1 18

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

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

Cradle to store gate · Excl. biogenic CO₂ · AR5

Boundary
Cradle to store gate
Raw materials, manufacturing, packaging, outbound transport and retail
GWP method
IPCC AR5, 100-year horizon
Not on the record; set from RIVM's method notes · impact method ReCiPe 2016 Midpoint (H)
CO₂e basis
Excl. biogenic CO₂FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂GHG Protocol and IPCC inventories
Not split by gas; CO₂e only
Life cycle
Upstream: coveredProduction: coveredDownstream: partly coveredEnd of life: not covered

Medium quality · Open licence · Any year

The gates, from the farm to the shop shelf

Each gate holds everything before it, plus one more stage. Pick the gate where your own accounting starts.

Cumulative kgCO₂e per kg at each gate. The axis starts at 17 so the later steps show.
Everything up to the distribution gateEverything up to the store gate

Never add the gates togetherEach gate already contains the ones before it: the store gate's 18.0199 includes the distribution gate's 17.2358. Adding both gives 35.3, nearly twice the real footprint. Use one gate, or add the stages.

What this number covers

The path of one kilogram of this food, from the farm to the shop shelf. Every step on it is counted.

  1. Cradle to distribution gate

    Included17.2

Outside this boundary

  • Use phase
  • Throwing away packaging and leftovers

= 18 per kg

From RIVM's record to a comparable factor

RIVM publishes this factor as one record. Here is each field as printed and what open-climate.ai made of it.

The total and its parts

Every gate and stage has its own page.

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About this factor

From RIVM

Where it applies

Machine-translated
No critical review as specified in ISO 14040 has been carried out on these figures. They must therefore not be used to compare individual foods with each other, such as an apple and a pear; that needs an external review as specified in ISO 14040. Product categories, such as vegetables and fruit, can be compared.

Source and licence

Publisher
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM)
Library
RIVM
Record
3030
Published
23 September 2024
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The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.

Credit it with this lineRIVM, Database milieubelasting voedingsmiddelen, versie 23 september 2024 (data: Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk), CC BY 4.0
A plain reading of the licence, not legal advice. The licence text prevails.

Cite this factor

RIVM, Database milieubelasting voedingsmiddelen, versie 23 september 2024 (data: Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk), CC BY 4.0. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/rivm/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-rivm-sausage_beef_braadworst-nl-kg-cradle_to_store_gate-55d9454d/?v=efv1-01fc18b9bd4e721aac8e1ef81049cbb9

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