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Carbon Footprint of Beef Cattle

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Desjardins, Raymond, Worth, Devon, Vergé, Xavier, Maxime, Dominique, Dyer, Jim, Cerkowniak, Darrel·2012·Sustainability

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The carbon footprint of beef cattle is presented for Canada, The United States, The European Union, Australia and Brazil. The values ranged between 8 and 22 kg CO2e per kg of live weight (LW) depending on the type of farming system, the location, the year, the type of management practices, the allocation, as well as the boundaries of the study. Substantial reductions have been observed for most of these countries in the last thirty years. For instance, in Canada the mean carbon footprint of beef cattle at the exit gate of the farm decreased from 18.2 kg CO2e per kg LW in 1981 to 9.5 kg CO2e per kg LW in 2006 mainly because of improved genetics, better diets, and more sustainable land management practices. Cattle production results in products other than meat, such as hides, offal and products for rendering plants; hence the environmental burden must be distributed between these useful products. In order to do this, the cattle carbon footprint needs to be reported in kg of CO2e per kg of product. For example, in Canada in 2006, on a mass basis, the carbon footprint of cattle by-products at the exit gate of the slaughterhouse was 12.9 kg CO2e per kg of product. Based on an economic allocation, the carbon footprints of meat (primal cuts), hide, offal and fat, bones and other products for rendering were 19.6, 12.3, 7 and 2 kg CO2e per kg of product, respectively.

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Authors: Desjardins, R., Worth, D., Vergé, X., Maxime, D., Dyer, J., & Cerkowniak, D.
Affiliations: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (CA)
Private Consultant, Ottawa, ON, K2A 1G6, Canada
CIRAIG (CA)
Private Consultant, Cambridge, ON, N3H 3Z9, Canada
Corresponding author: Desjardins, Raymond
ORCID: Desjardins, Raymond
Venue: Sustainability
Publisher: MDPI AG
Published: 2012-12-03
Volume: 4
Issue: 12
Pages: 3279-3301
ISSN: 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3390/su4123279
OpenAlex: W2080468116
Cited by: 124
References: 44
Citations by year: 2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 3
FWCI: 3.97
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (vor)
Locations: Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Keywords: carbon footprint, beef cattle, greenhouse gas emissions, economic allocation, hides, offal, rendering, sustainable land management, beef production efficiency, cross-national comparison

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