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Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 1 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
The Life Cycle Management NavigatorCarbon Footprinting
Training Session 10
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 2 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon FootprintingCarbon Footprinting as current Trend
What?
Source: www.diy.com, www.groupe-casino.fr
Reduction of climate impact of products!
• That’s what consumers, key retailers and product manufacturers ask for.
• That’s what Carbon Footprinting can provide.
Reduction of climate impact of products!
• That’s what consumers, key retailers and product manufacturers ask for.
• That’s what Carbon Footprinting can provide.
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 3 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon FootprintingWhat is a Carbon Footprint?
What?
Source: www.carbontrust.co.uk
A CARBON FOOTPRINT is...
...the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, event, organisation, or product expressed as CO2 equivalents.
It encompasses e.g.• use of fuels• employee travel or • emissions from other organisations
within the supply chain.
A CARBON FOOTPRINT is...
...the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, event, organisation, or product expressed as CO2 equivalents.
It encompasses e.g.• use of fuels• employee travel or • emissions from other organisations
within the supply chain.
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 4 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Calculation
Example
Different organisations use different calculations, e.g.
for the calculation of the CO2 impact of their cardboards
for the calculation of the CO2 impact of private persons
Sources: www.carbonfootprint.com,www.tetrapak.com
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 5 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Calculation
Example
Source: www.carbontrust.co.uk
Most commonly used:
Methodology of Carbon Trust
• Based on LC Thinking
• Converts Greenhouse Gas Emissions into CO2e
• Uses 100 year global warming potential recommended by IPCC
Standard coming up inJune 2008
PAS* 2050
No calculation standard yet!No calculation standard yet!
*Publicly Available Specification
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 6 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Current Discussion on Implications
Why?
• Helps to reduce product-related impact on climate change
• Reputation as competitive advantage, due to high awareness of climate change among consumers
• Easy communication tool between retailer and consumer on embodied carbon
Benefits Critical notes
• Exclusion of other life cycle impacts than CO2 e.g. water footprint
• Trade-off with social aspects, e.g. peas from Kenia: Long Flight versus economic wealth creation
• Difficult to calculate complex and variable data, Uncertainties in measuring, e.g. methane
• Confusion of consumers in communication, no standard
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 7 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Steps of Carbon Footprinting
How?
Step 1 - Identify • Identify all products along your supply chain• Include raw materials, packaging, co-products, waste, resources used in transportation and storage
Source: Paulavets, Climate change and the food industry, 2008
Step 2 - Assess
• Discover the supply chain phases for each of your identified products
• Compile the different supply chains to one full supply chain and visualize it
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 8 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Steps to Carbon Footprinting
How?
Step 5 - Evaluate
• Calculate the material balance of each stage of the process
• Sum it up to the total carbon footprint
Step 4 - Act
• Collect CO2 data for significant products at every stage in the process• Use secondary data, e.g. comparable studies, where primary data is not available
Source: Paulavets, Climate change and the food industry, 2008
Step 3 - Decide
• Choose the products that make a significant contribution to the
carbon footprint
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 9 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Innocent drinks, UK
Example
240 employees
Estimated turnover 2007: 100 Mio Pounds respectively 124 Mio €
240 employees
Estimated turnover 2007: 100 Mio Pounds respectively 124 Mio €
Source: www.innocentdrinks.co.uk
Innocent drinks is doubling its profits annually
Life Cycle Management Navigator: 10_PR_CF_ 10 CSCP, UNEP, WBCSD, WI, InWEnt, UNIDO, UEAP ME
Carbon Footprinting Tips for Action!
Tips
• A good tool to communicate the carbon
impact of products to customers
• Gain competitive advantage among other
suppliers
• Do not forget about other life cycle
impacts when concentrating on carbon
footprinting