Indicator: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Indicator

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Description

GHG emissions expressed in CO2 equivalents (CO2e), including CO2, CH4, and N2O.

Unit

Ton CO2-eq (total and per hectare)

Temporal Resolution

Not Applicable

Spatial Resolution

Variable

Data

Crop yield, fertilizer and pesticide application at national level from public FAO datasets

Method

Analogous to the approach taken with soil carbon estimation, TLG calculates land-based GHG emissions in agricultural settings using the coolfarmtool. We do not include non-land based emissions, such as fossil fuel use or indirect emissions, such as upstream emissions, e.g. during fertilizer production. An initial assessment is conducted using official regional statistics of typical yields and fertilizer and pesticide inputs reported by FAO.

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