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Publication - Statistics

Scottish agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen use: methodology

Published
9 June 2026
Directorate
Environment and Forestry Directorate, +1 more … Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Farming and rural

Methodology for Scottish agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen use publications.

Last updated: 9 June 2026.

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Changes to methodology

Changes to methodology impacting the latest release are listed in this section. Methodology changes impacting previous releases are listed in Annex  A: Methodology changes impacting previous releases.

Scottish agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen use: 2024-25

Agriculture and agriculture subsector estimates

The entire timeseries (1990 to 2024) has been revised to incorporate methodological improvements and new data. Improvements to data used to estimate Scotland’s share of UK enteric fermentation and manure management emissions have been applied to the entire timeseries. As a result, agriculture emissions are slightly higher (<0.1 MtCO2e)  than previously reported for all years, except for 2022 where the revised estimate is slightly lower (<0.01 MtCO2e). Comparisons should only be made with estimates in the latest release.

More information is available at: Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2024.

Farm level GHG and nitrogen use estimates

There are no methodological changes impacting 2024-25 data. Average gross emissions per hectare estimates for 2021-22 onwards are not comparable with 2019-20 and 2020-21 as estimates were produced with a different method (Agrecalc Cloud vs Agrecalc Web). More information is available at Scottish agriculture greenhouse gas emissions and nitrogen use: 2023-24 -  changes to farm-level estimates methodology.

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