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Documentation of California's Greenhouse Gas Inventory (2023 Edition - Last updated on 12-1-2023)

♦ Category: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use

IPCC: 3C4 - Aggregate Sources and Non-CO2 Emissions Sources on Land - Direct N2O Emissions from Managed Soils
Sector: Agriculture & Forestry : Ag Soil Management : Manure : Direct

♦ Activity: Nitrogen in managed manure - Poultry

♦ Greenhouse gas: Nitrous oxide ( N2O )

► Year 2000 —

● Greenhouse gas emission estimate —

Amount: 333.04 tonnes of N2O Emitted (99,247 tonnes CO2 Eq.)
Basis: Calculation
Calculation: [Nitrogen in managed manure] * [Nitrogen emitted as N2O] * [Molecular weight ratio of N2O to N2]
Reference: IPCC (2006). 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programmed, Eggleston HAS., Biennia L., Miwa K., Negara T. and Tanabe K. (eds). Vol.4, Chap. 11: Managed Soils. Published: IGES, Japan. https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol4.html

● Activity level used in calculations —

Activity: Nitrogen in managed manure = 21,197,678,595 g (i.e. 21.2 thousand tonnes) of Poultry
Basis: Compilation
Reference: CARB (2016). Technical support document on GHG inventory methodologies for the 2000-2014 inventory. See Discussion of nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soil management available at: https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/reports/2000_2014/ghg_inventory_00-14_technical_support_document.pdf

● Parameters and Constants used in calculations —

Parameter: Nitrogen emitted as N2O = 0.01 g / g
Reference: IPCC (2006). 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Prepared by the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programmed, Eggleston HAS., Biennia L., Miwa K., Negara T. and Tanabe K. (eds). Vol.4, Chap. 11: Managed Soils. Published: IGES, Japan. https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol4.html
Constant: Molecular weight ratio of N2O to N2 = 1.571133815
Reference: IUPAC (2006). Atomic Weights of the Elements 2005 (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 78, No. 11, pp. 2051–2066, 2006.
Constant: Global warming potential of N2O = 298
Reference: IPCC (2007). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Solomon S., Qin D., Manning M., Chen Z., Marquis M., Averyt K.B., Tignor M., and Miller H.L. (eds.). http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm

● Greenhouse gas emitted per unit activity (derived from values listed above) —

Amount: 0.0157 g of N2O per g of Poultry
4.68 g of CO2eq. per g of Poultry