Emission factor from SLU v1.4.3
American persimmons - Tomatoes, average
Greece · Cradle to farm gate · Any year
Each kilogram of this food counts as 0.132 kg CO₂e before it leaves the farm: 0.0173 for raw materials and inputs, 0.0281 for soil emissions, 0.0567 for production energy and 0.0301 for capital goods amortization.
Value, cradle to farm gate
0.132kgCO₂e/kg
Net total: fossil, biogenic and land use · GWP100 · AR6
FossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balanceOne value, for any year
SLU sets no date window, so there is no year to pick.
Reference year 2021
- Region
- Greece GR
- Boundary
- Cradle to farm gate
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · SLU terms
Where 0.132 comes from
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.017313.1%
- Soil emissionsAgriculture3.1 Goods we buy0.028121.2%
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.056742.9%
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.030122.8%
Σ 0.132: the four parts add up to SLU's published total.
Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol
3.1 Goods we buy 0.132
Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.
The factor, standardised
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Food and agriculture › Plant products · Greece · per kg · Average
Cradle to farm gate · Net total · AR6
- BoundaryCradle to farm gateAgricultural production only, up to the farm gate. Learn more
- Cradle to farm gate
- Raw materials, fuel combustion, purchased energy and capital goods
- 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
- As printed by SLU
- 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: coveredProduction: partly coveredDownstream: not coveredEnd of life: not covered
Medium quality · Open licence · Any year
What this number covers
The path of one kilogram of this food, from the farm to your kitchen. Every step on it is counted.
Farm
Growing the crops or raising the animals, with their feed and fertiliser
Included0.0173Farm
Growing the crops or raising the animals, with their feed and fertiliser
Included0.0281Production energy
Included0.0567Capital goods amortization
Included0.0301
Outside this boundary
- Manufacturing
- Packaging
- Outbound transport
- Retail
- Use phase
- Throwing away packaging and leftovers
= 0.132 per kg
From SLU's record to a comparable factor
SLU publishes this factor as one record with four sub-lines. 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.
- Raw materials and inputs0.0173155
- Soil emissions0.0280515
- Production energy0.0567161
- Capital goods amortization0.0301313
About this factor
Filed by SLU under
Vegetables
SLU publishes no description for this food.
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Energy and Technology
- Library
- SLU v1.4.3
- Record
- A.05.06.013|GR
- Published
- 3 September 2026
The values and their metadata are served in full and may be reused with credit to the publisher.
All model code is provided under the MIT license (https://github.com/SLU-foodsystems/safad).
Cite this factor
SAFAD v1.4.3, Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU); Röös et al. 2025, J. Cleaner Production 519, 146002. Normalised by open-climate.ai, https://open-climate.ai/factors/libraries/slu/ (CC BY 4.0). https://open-climate.ai/factors/ef-slu-american_persimmons-gr-kg-cradle_to_farm_gate-7325b349/?v=efv1-300f82bd126ce867a8784e1f7733d37d
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