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Product	CO2e / kg	Studies

Chicken

4.286

CO2e / kg

= 100 g of Chicken

You can consume

0.63

kg of Chicken to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Poultry | Meat | Food

Chicken production accounts for ~10% of global livestock emissions¹, which is ~1.5% of total global emissions².

The vast majority of emissions in chicken production come from feed (80-85%)³.

0.7 Gt for chicken production, compared to 7.1 Gt for all livestock emissions. Gerber, P. J., Hristov, A. N., Henderson, B., Makkar, H., Oh, J., Lee, C., ... & Oosting, S. (2013). Technical options for the mitigation of direct methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock: a review. animal, 7(s2), 220-234. ↩
Total global emissions in 2016 = 49 billion t CO2e. https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions ↩
Cederberg, C. (2009). Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish production of meat, milk and eggs 1990 and 2005. SIK Institutet för livsmedel och bioteknik. ↩

Studies

Source	Notes	CO2e	Country origin	Country consumption	Weight
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Chicken, meat, raw; Poulet, viande, crue	4.56	France	France	0
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Chicken, meat and skin, raw; Poulet, viande et peau, cru	4.18	France	France	0
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Hen, meat only, raw; Poule, viande ,crue	5.78	France	France	0
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Hen, meat and skin, raw; Poule, viande et peau, crue	5.78	France	France	6
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Chicken, white race, meat and skin, raw; Poulet (var. blanc), viande et peau, cru	5.78	France	France	0
AGRIBALYSE, the French LCI Database for agricultural products: high quality data for producers and environmental labelling	Capon, meat and skin, raw; Chapon, viande et peau, cru	5.78	France	France	0
How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope reduction by 2050	Chicken meat	2.6	Unknown	United Kingdom	0
How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope reduction by 2050	Chicken meat	2.95	Europe	United Kingdom	4
How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope reduction by 2050	Chicken meat	2.84	United Kingdom	United Kingdom	0
RISE Open access list 1.7	Per kg boneless meat, not cooked	2.6	Sweden	Sweden	5
Ökologische Fußabdrücke von Lebensmitteln und Gerichten in Deutschland (IFEU)	Hähnchen, Durchschnitt	5.5	Unknown	Germany	6
Life Cycle Impacts of Proteinrich Foods for Superwijzer	France, label rouge	4.82	France	Unknown	0
Life Cycle Impacts of Proteinrich Foods for Superwijzer	Brazil	5.75	Brazil	Unknown	0
Life Cycle Impacts of Proteinrich Foods for Superwijzer	conventional	5.96	Netherlands	Unknown	4
Greenhouse gas emissions from Swedish production of meat, milk and eggs 1990 and 2005	Supplement 9, Table 2a: chicken meat production 2005; at farm gate	1.93	Sweden	Sweden	8
Klimatarier CO2 Rechner	Hähnchenfleisch, frisch	3.7	Unknown	Unknown	5
Potential contributions of food consumption patterns to climate change	fresh, domestic, cooked; CO2: 3.1, NO2: 1.2, NH4: 0.01	4.3	Sweden	Sweden	8
Greenhouse gas emissions of realistic dietary choices in Denmark: the carbon footprint and nutritional value of dairy products	Table 1; including waste; excluding waste: 5.21	5.85	Unknown	Unknown	8

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