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.