Cow's Milk

🇩🇪 Germany

0.95kg CO2e/kg

Footprint at farm

What is "kg CO2e"?

Counting in "kg CO2e" is a standard way to combine emissions of different greenhouse gases into a single climate footprint number.
We combine emissions from greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane into "kg CO2e", by thinking:
"How many kilograms of carbon dioxide would it take to get the same global warming effect?"

What is included in this footprint?

CO2 (carbon dioxide)
N2O (nitrous oxide)
CH4 (methane)

Total footprint

100%

Feed production (including managed grasslands)

16%
Crop production is associated with emissions from a whole range of mechanism, including production of inputs such as fertilizer and pesticides, machinery use, nitrous oxide emissions due to fertilizer use, and emissions from drained wetlands.

Manure management

16%
Storage and treatment of manure produces methane (due to decomposition under anaerobic conditions) and nitrous oxide (during nitrification and denitrification of the nitrogen in the manure). These emissions are determined by amount and characteristics of manure and by the type of manure management system.

Enteric fermentation

68%
Ruminating animals produce methane as a by-product of enteric fermentation. How much varies depending on animal species, feed intake, mainly quantity but also quality (higher digestibility and lower fiber content leads to lower emissions).
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