Climate factors of foods

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Global Warming Potential

The Global Warming Potential is an index that measures the radiative forcing of a unit mass of a given well-mixed greenhouse gas in the present-day atmosphere integrated over a chosen time horizon, relative to that of carbon dioxide.[1]

Global Warming Potential for gases relevant to agriculture(a)
ObsGreenhouse_gas20100500Description
1Nitrous oxide289298153
2Methane72257.6

References

  1. Annika Carlsson-Kanyama and Alejandro D Gonzalez (2009)[1]