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Singapore

Nitrous oxide

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R404A

R407C

R410A

Emission intensity for Nitrous oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2021: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity for Nitrous oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2022: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity for Nitrous oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2023: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity for nitrous oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2024: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity for nitrous oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). Retrieved from the Conversion Factors 2025: flat file published by the UK BEIS/Defra at the source URL.

Emission intensity for nitrous oxide. This conversion factor should be used to report leakage from air-conditioning refrigeration units or the release to the atmosphere of other gases that have global warming potential (GWP). The primary sources are IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) and IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). NOTE: This dataset has been deprecated by the source.

Emission intensity of gas specified in 100-year GWPs from IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) 2021. Retrieved from the IPCC Global Warming Potential Values (pdf) file published by GHG Protocol at the source URL.

Emission intensity for Nitrous Oxide. Emissions including only Kyoto products. Retrieved from the excel file CO2 Emissiefactoren 2024 providing a Dutch standard list of CO2 emission factors. For additional information on the application and interpretation of this emission factor please refer to the link: https://co2emissiefactoren.nl/factoren/2024/17/27/overige-emissies-lachgas-n2o/

Emission intensity of Nitrous oxide (N2O). The GHG emissions standard applied is the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Retrieved from Singapore Emission Factors Registry (SEFR) database. The primary data source is National Environment Agency (NEA) Singapore. According to the source: This is the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of the associated Greenhouse Gas (GHG) following IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) "Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis".

Property	Value
Name	Nitrous oxide
Sector	Refrigerants and Fugitive Gases
Category	Refrigerants and Fugitive Gases
Source	BEIS, CO2 Emissiefactoren, GHG Protocol, SEFR
Region	United Kingdom (GB), Global (GLOBAL), Netherlands (NL), Singapore (SG)
Unit Type	Weight
Year	2025 to 2013
LCA Activity	fugitive_release, unknown

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Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Nitrous oxide	United Kingdom	BEIS	2021	Weight
Nitrous oxide	United Kingdom	BEIS	2022	Weight
Nitrous oxide	United Kingdom	BEIS	2023	Weight
Nitrous oxide	United Kingdom	BEIS	2024	Weight
Nitrous oxide	United Kingdom	BEIS	2025	Weight
Nitrous oxide	Global	GHG Protocol	2021	Weight
Nitrous oxide	Global	GHG Protocol	2024	Weight
Nitrous oxide	Netherlands	CO2 Emissiefactoren	2024	Weight
Nitrous oxide	Singapore	SEFR	2013	Weight