Emission Factor

Sugar - from sugarcane (market for)

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Emission factor summary

The activity generating the emissions is market for sugar, from sugarcane. The Reference Product is sugar, from sugarcane. The product sugar, from sugarcane is a processed agricultural product. The industrial process diverts 50% of sugarcane juice for raw sugar production and the other 50%, along with molasses (a by-product of sugar crystallization process), is diverted to ethanol production process. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/6564/documentation

PropertyValue
NameSugar - from sugarcane (market for)
SectorAgriculture/Hunting/Forestry/Fishing
CategoryArable Farming
Sourceecoinvent
Source DatasetCut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12
Region
Unit Type
Year
2011
Year Released
2025
Emission Factor
  • CO2e
    kg/kg
Scopes3.1
LCA Activity
cradle_to_consumer
Supported CO2e Calculation Method
AR5, AR6
Data Versioning
  • Status: Current

API Reference

Activity ID
arable_farming-type_sugar_from_sugarcane_market_for_sugar_from_sugarcane
UUID
ef4f1867-cc6b-4474-9a23-05f0b0ae98fb
Code Snippet
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