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an introduction to
Agri-footprint 3.0 & openLCA
Blonk Consultants & GreenDelta Understanding the impact of food
12th of September, 2017
Welcome introduction
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TIME WHAT WHO
16:00 – 16:05 Introduction & practical issues Elena
16:05 – 16:20 Agri-food LCAs: What is Agri-footprint? Elena
16:20 – 16:45
About openLCA Agri-footprint in openLCA
• How does it work? • Demonstration
Franziska
16:45 – 16:55 Questions & Answers Elena & Franziska
16:55 – 17:00 Wrap up Elena & Franziska
17:00 Closure Elena & Franziska
Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint [email protected]
Franziska Möller GreenDelta / openLCA [email protected]
Agri-footprint 3.0
Agri-footprint 3.0 is a high quality and comprehensive life cycle inventory (LCI) database, focused on the agriculture and food sector.
In the coming days: Agri-footprint 3.0 will be available for openLCA users!
An introduction
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Meet the developers An enthusiastic team of food LCA experts
Hans Blonk CEO
Jasper Scholten Senior consultant
Bart Durlinger Senior consultant
Roline Broekema Senior consultant
Lody Kuling
Consultant
Elena Koukouna
Consultant
Mike van Paassen
Consultant
Meet the developers Blonk Consultants
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Blonk Consultants is an international leader in the field of environment, sustainability, nutrition and health. We advise businesses, governments and
other organisations on environmental and sustainability issues facing the agri-food sector..
Sustainable products & supply chains
Healthy & Sustainable diets
Sustainable business management & reporting
Sustainability Performance Management
Sustainable Nutrition Assessment
Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon Footprints
• Facilitate transparency and a more rapid transformation to sustainable food supply chains;
• A food specific LCI database did not exist;
• Need for agri-food LCIs due to; Approximately 25% of all LCAs are agri-food related; Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) projects (EU).
• No opportunities to publish company specific data in LCI
databases.
Why did we develop Agri-footprint? An introduction
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Critically reviewed By RMIT University (version 1.0) and RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the
Environmental, the Netherlands) (version 2.0)
Transparent Background documentation publically available
Widely accepted and used By the food industry, LCA community, scientific community and governments worldwide
Land Use Change Fully integrated
5,000+ products & processes Crops, (intermediate) products from processing, feed compounds, food products, animal production systems
Frequent updates 2014 Release of first version in SimaPro 2015 Release of Agri-footprint 2.0 2017 Release Agri-footprint 3.0 available for different LCA software (openLCA, SimaPro 8.4)
2017 Release of Agri-footprint 4.0 (expected end of 2017)
Consistent with LCIA ILCD and ReCiPe
Used for • Carbon footprints • Hot-spot analyses • Environmental product declarations
(EPD) • Product Environmental Footprint
(PEF) screenings • (comparative) product Life Cycle
Assessments (LCA) • Defining sustainable nutrition
3 allocation options Mass, Energy, Economic
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Wheat An example
• Stable • Building material • Bedding material
Wheat flour
Wheat middlings
Wheat bran
Wheat germ
Manure production & application Transportation & logistics Pesticide & fertilizer: production & application Land occupation & land use change Pretreatment & processing
Scope: from cradle-to-gate
Data quality: company specific & literature
Seed production
Machinery & infrastructure (capital goods)
Energy consumption
Irrigation water
Data in Agri-footprint What is available in the database?
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Agri-footprint: an overview Development of the database over the years
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AFP 1.0 2014
AFP 2.0 2015
AFP 3.0 2017
Crops/country 30 300+ 1,000+*
(Intermediate) products from processing
100 200 500
Feed compounds 80 80 80
Food products 35 86 163
Animal production systems 4 4 4 * Agri-footprint includes inventories for seed production
Direct Land Use Change Assessment Tool
• Calculates greenhouse gas emissions from land use change
• Based on PAS 2050 & PAS 2050-1 frameworks, • Basic methodology of which is now widely referenced in:
PEF guidelines & Envifood Protocol
• Three basic functionalities:
Fully integrated in Agri-footprint® 3.0
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Country known & land use unknown
Country & land use unknown
Country & land use known Interested in tool & complete datasets?
They are available for you • 9,000+ crop country combinations • From full Excel tool to specific datasets
www.blonkconsultants.nl/landusechange
Applications Some recent examples
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Agrifirm Sustainability
labels
Global Feed Lifecycle Institute
(GFLI)
Various scientific literature
Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
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Global Feed Lifecyle Institute
GFLI is a global initiative to bring major feed organizations together to develop a freely and publicly available feed LCA database and tool;
Provide LCI and LCA of feed ingredients to LCA community, tool developers and business experts;
Data is generated with Agri-footprint framework, making use of the Agri-footprint development tools and background data;
Data will be available in Agri-footprint.
Application
More info: globalfeedlca.org
openLCA
• a free and (yet) professional approach to Life Cycle Assessment: powerful, feature-rich, (comparatively) easy to use, technically up-to-date
Introduction to the software
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• broadest selection of relevant, consistent LCI and sustainability databases available worldwide (!)
• developed by GreenDelta since 2006: www.greendelta.com
• completely open source (Mozilla Public License)
openLCA
• Life Cycle Assessment, Social Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing
• Carbon & Water footprint
• Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
• Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
• …
Application (generic)
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openLCA
• Graphical modeling of product systems
• Process networks can be created automatically and manually
Functions and features
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openLCA
• Modeling with parameters, e.g. for sensitivity analysis
• Available on different levels • process
• product system
• project
• impact method
• database
Functions and features
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openLCA
• Impact assessment methods
• Method pack for impact assessment available for free, but not included by default in openLCA
• Analysis and interpretation
Functions and features
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openLCA
• www.openLCA.org/downloads
Where to get openLCA
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• Two options: Installer version and zip file
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Get Agri-footprint for openLCA Licensing options
€ 1,300 (ex VAT) Database licence
€1,100 (ex VAT) Additional database licences
Go to: nexus.openlca.org
Agri-footprint - Products & Services How Agri-footprint supports you
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Go to: www.agri-footprint.com/products
Agri-footprint 3.0 Database
(openLCA & SimaPro 8.4)
LCAs & Carbon Footprints
External Review Services
Impacts
Company specific datasets
Training & Workshops
Extensions: more datasets
Direct Land Use Change
Assessment Tool
Connection to your systems
• Release of Agri-footprint 4.0 (expected end of 2017) Including data: • Company specific (e.g. Evonik) • USDA data • Capital goods expanded • Animal production systems • Seafood
• Cooperation: • Share your data! • Share your ideas!
What’s next? Future ambitions for Agri-footprint®
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Thank you! Questions? Reach out to us
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Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint
Franziska Möller GreenDelta / openLCA
www.agri-footprint.com | www.blonkconsultants.nl
Let’s keep in touch Where to find more information
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Agri-footprint User Group openLCA
www.openlca.org | nexus.openlca.org | www.greendelta.com