Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative—Beef Cattle Herd Management) Methodology Determination 2015
21AHistorical annual emissions intensity
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21A Historical annual emissions intensity
(1) For the definition of Image unavailable in extracted text in Equation 3, the historical annual emissions intensity, Image unavailable in extracted text, for herd Image unavailable in extracted text, in t CO2‑e per tonne of liveweight, is given by the following formula, where the sums are over all years Image unavailable in extracted text of the emissions intensity reference period:
| | Equation 4 |
 = the total emissions of herd , in t CO2‑e, for year  of the emissions intensity reference period, as calculated in accordance with Division 4.
 = the liveweight gain for herd  for year of the emissions intensity reference period, in tonnes, as given by Equation 5.
(2) For subsection (1):
(a) take into account only emissions from the emissions sources specified in the table in section 20; and
(b) assume that the herd’s diet in the emissions intensity reference period consisted entirely of pasture from the region referred to in item 1 of the table in Schedule 1.