Products

Product CO2e / kg Studies

Octopus

6.171
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Octopus
You can consume
0.44
kg of Octopus to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Sea food | Food

Subcategories: Octopus (frozen)

Studies

Source Notes CO2e Country origin Country consumption Weight
Seafood carbon emissions tool Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), Wild, System: Midwater trawl, Notes: One study has assessed energy use and emissions in the Common octopus fishery. Vazquez-Rowe et al. (2011) conducted an LCA on the octopus fishery in Mauritania. Fuel use estimates here are based on two data sources.
12.4
 Unknown Unknown 6
Estimation of the carbon footprint of the Galician fishing activity (NW Spain) Table 4, Common octopus
4.11
 Spain Spain 8
Den store klimadatabase Octopus, Agriculture: 0, iLUC: 0.01, Food processing: 0.08, Packaging: 0.26, Transport: 0.11
0.46
 Unknown Unknown 5
Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories Table 5 Median; #LCA studies: 3; #GWP values: 4; Mean: 8.07; Stdev: 2.4; Min: 6.39; Max: 11.61
7.13
 Unknown Unknown 8