Inventory reporting of livestock emissions: the impact of the IPCC 1996 and 2006 Guidelines

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 16; no. 7; pp. 75001 - 75015
• Main Authors: Amon, Barbara, Çinar, Gültaç, Anderl, Michael, Dragoni, Federico, Kleinberger-Pierer, Magdalena, Hörtenhuber, Stefan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.07.2021
• Subjects: Carbon footprint; Emission analysis; Emission inventories; Emission measurements; Emissions control; emissions inventory; Estimates; Fermentation; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Guidelines; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; IPCC Guidelines; Livestock; Manures; Methodology; Mitigation; Nitrogen; Nitrous oxide

The livestock sector is a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) and nitrogen (N) emissions and efforts are being made to reduce these emissions. National emission inventories are the main tool for reporting emissions. They have to be consistent, comparable, complete, accurate and tr...