Metadata Sub-indicator 2.4.1.3. Ammonia emissions from farming sector

Goal

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Target

Target 2.4. By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.

Indicator

Indicator 2.4.1. Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture

Sub-indicator

Sub-indicator 2.4.1.3. Ammonia emissions from farming sector

Type of indicator (global, European, national)
European (sdg_02_60(s)) (s: similar)
Definition

Ammonia emissions due to activities in the agricultural sector (agriculture and livestock). Includes manure management, fertilisation as well as urine and manure deposited by grazing animals.

Calculation method


Different methodology depending on the activity (management of manures, inorganic nitrogen fertilisers, organic fertilisers, animal manure and sewage sludge applied to the soil, as well as urine and manure deposited by grazing animals.

Available at https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-ambiental/temas/sistema-espanol-de-inventario-sei-/metodologias-estimacion-emisiones/

Unit of measure

Thousand Tonnes

Periodicity

Annual

Disaggregated data(Gender, age, region in Spain, other)

Tier

Tier I

Come from National Statistics Plan (YES/NO)

No

Responsible institution
Date of the last metadata update

08/05/2023

Link to United Nations metadata
Custody agency

FAO

Observations


The result of this indicator for each year is compared with the result calculated in the base period (defined as the three-year period 2011-2013).

The territorial scope of this sub-indicator includes the Canary Islands while Eurostat does not consider it because they do not fall within the EMEP domain (Co-operative programme for monitoring and evaluation of long range transmission of air pollutants in Europe).