Emission factor from SLU v1.4.3
Guinea-fowl fresh meat - Chicken meat, bone-free edible weight
Spain · Cradle to farm gate · Any year
Each kg reference mass of this food counts as 1.59 kg CO₂e before it leaves the farm: 0.173 for raw materials and inputs, 0.151 for manure management, 0.23 for soil emissions, 0.179 for land-use change, 0.762 for production energy and 0.0933 for capital goods amortization.
Value, cradle to farm gate
1.59kgCO₂e/kg reference mass
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
- Spain ES
- Boundary
- Cradle to farm gate
- Data quality
- MediumRated by us, not by the source
- Licence
- Open · SLU terms
Where 1.59 comes from
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.17310.9%
- Manure managementAgriculture3.1 Goods we buy0.1519.5%
- Soil emissionsAgriculture3.1 Goods we buy0.2314.5%
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.17911.3%
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.76248%
- 3.1 Goods we buy0.09335.9%
Σ 1.59: the six parts add up to SLU's published total.
Reporting this kilogram under the GHG Protocol
3.1 Goods we buy 1.59
Goods and services you buy are Scope 3, category 1, purchased goods and services.
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Food and agriculture › Animal products · Spain · per kg reference mass · 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
Where the carbon comes from
SLU splits every value by the origin of its carbon. For guinea-fowl fresh meat - Chicken meat, most of it is fossil.
By carbon origin
Basis:net totalWhich carbon the CO₂e counts. Net total adds every pool, fossil, biogenic and land-use change, net of removals. A fossil-only value would be 0.906, about 57.1% of this one. Learn moreFossilBio CH₄Land useBio CO₂full carbon balance- Fossil
- 0.906
- 57.1%
- Land-use change
- 0.179
- 11.3%
By gas
- Methane (CH₄)
- 0.048
- 3%
- CH4_BIOGENIC
- 0.0807
- 5.1%
- Nitrous oxide (N₂O)
- 0.374
- 23.5%
What this number covers
The path of 1 kg reference mass 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
Included0.173Farm
Growing the crops or raising the animals, with their feed and fertiliser
Included0.151Farm
Growing the crops or raising the animals, with their feed and fertiliser
Included0.23Land-use change
Included0.179Production energy
Included0.762Capital goods amortization
Included0.0933
Outside this boundary
- Manufacturing
- Packaging
- Outbound transport
- Retail
- Use phase
- Throwing away packaging and leftovers
= 1.59 per kg reference mass
From SLU's record to a comparable factor
SLU publishes this factor as one record with six 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 inputs0.172827
- Manure management0.150661
- Soil emissions0.230349
- Land-use change0.179475
- Production energy0.761561
- Capital goods amortization0.0932987
About this factor
Filed by SLU under
White meat
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.06.02.006|ES
- 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-guineafowl_fresh_meat-es-kg_reference_mass-cradle_to_farm_gate-c100514d/?v=efv1-a0466af35bda0cd07e1eb4a175d2b0a4
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