Emission Factor

Land use change - annual crop

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is land use change, annual crop. The Reference Product is land use change, annual crop. This represents the service of "land use change, annual crop". It models the air emissions associated with transforming and occupying 1 ha of land to be used for an annual crop production. The transformation can be split between change from annual cropland, perennial cropland, primary forest, secondary forest and grassland to annual crop. The transformation data (split) have regional variation so users are prompted to examine the relevant geographies that are of interested. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/21581/documentation

PropertyValue
NameLand use change - annual crop
SectorLand Use
CategoryLand Use Change
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2014
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/ha
Scopes1, outside_of_scopes
LCA Activity
source_specific
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
land_use_change-type_land_use_change_annual_crop_land_use_change_annual_crop
UUID
b09be7ee-8729-4949-8a53-029ab096230b
Code Snippet
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