Dataset: GLEAM Livestock Emissions

About this Dataset

GLEAM Livestock Emissions

Context

I found this data from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) when conducting exploratory research for a project analyzing greenhouse gas emissions across the lifecycle of food production and consumption.

Check out my project notebook GlobalFoodEmissions and more in-depth analysis and insights in the interactive dashboard I created on Tableau public, Low Hanging Fruit: Accessible opportunities to reduce emissions and grow sustainable food systems.

There are many valuable resources available online from the UN FAO Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM), including reports and goals:

The aim of GLEAM is to quantify production and use of natural resources in the livestock sector and to identify environmental impacts of livestock in order to contribute to the assessment of adaptation and mitigation scenarios to move towards a more sustainable livestock sector.

From What is GLEAM? on GLEAM FAQs:

The Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model is a modelling framework developed within the Animal Production and Health Division of FAO. It simulates the functioning and environmental impacts of livestock production activities. The most relevant characteristics of GLEAM are:

It is based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies.
It runs in a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment.
It covers upstream, on-farm and downstream impacts.
The current version of GLEAM (2.0) focuses on the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions related to livestock sector supply chains.

Content

Content in this dataset is from the GLEAM 2.0 public data release. GLEAM 2.0 is the most recent version (as of October 2021) of the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM), published in 2018 using data from 2010.

GLEAM 2.0: Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation potential

In its current version, GLEAM 2.0 outputs include:

livestock animal numbers, production systems and their spatial distribution;
production of manure and its management;
feed intake and animal feed rations composition and quality;
land use associated with feed intake;
production of livestock commodities;
GHG emissions arising from each stage of production;
nitrogen used at each stage of production

GLEAM 2.0 is based on 2010 data for animal numbers and distribution, herd parameters, feed yields and rations and manure management systems. The content of this dataset is from the GLEAM 2.0 Supplement S1, which can be found along with documentation and additional resources via UN-FAO GLEAM Resources page.

Acknowledgements

GLEAM
GLEAM 2.0 Data public release file accessed via GLEAM Results
GLEAM data sources and model description
GLEAM Resources
Tackling Climate Change through Livestock: A global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities

Tables

Gleam Livestockemissions

@kaggle.amandaroseknudsen_gleamlivestockemissions.gleam_livestockemissions

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CREATE TABLE gleam_livestockemissions (
  "region" VARCHAR,
  "animal_species" VARCHAR,
  "production_system" VARCHAR,
  "commodity" VARCHAR,
  "emission_intensity_kg_co2e_per_kg_protein" DOUBLE,
  "production_kg_protein" DOUBLE,
  "total_ghg_emissions_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "total_co2_emissions_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "total_ch4_emissions_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "total_n2o_emissions_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "feed_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "feed_ch4_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "feed_fertilizer_crop_residues_n2o_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "feed_applied_deposited_manure_n2o_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "luc_soy_palm_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "luc_pasture_expansion_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "enteric_fermentation_ch4_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "manure_management_ch4_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "manure_management_n2o_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "direct_energy_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "indirect_energy_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE,
  "postfarm_co2_kg_co2e" DOUBLE
);