Climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States

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Climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States

This project aimed at calculating the climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States, providing results at the country level as well as by state. The system boundaries were cradle-to-gate and included greenhouse-gas emissions in relation to inputs of agrochemicals, energy, direct and indirect land use change, storage in piling stations and transport to processing plants.

Process flow diagram of the climate footprint of US sugar beet cultivation, showing stages from cultivation through transport and piling to delivery at processing plants, with arrows indicating associated greenhouse gas emissions.