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1 an introduction to Agri-footprint 3.0 & openlca Blonk Consultants & GreenDelta Understanding the impact of food 12 th of September, 2017

2 Welcome! GreenDelta & Blonk Consultants 2

3 Welcome introduction 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 16:45 16:55 Questions & Answers 16:55 17:00 Wrap up 17:00 Closure Franziska Elena & Franziska Elena & Franziska Elena & Franziska Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint elena@blonkconsultants.nl Franziska Möller GreenDelta / openlca moeller@greendelta.com 3

4 Agri-footprint - LCA food database An introduction 5

5 Agri-footprint 3.0 An introduction life Agri-footprint 3.0 is a high quality and comprehensive 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! 6

6 Meet the developers An enthusiastic team of food LCA experts Hans Blonk Jasper Scholten Bart Durlinger Roline Broekema CEO Senior consultant Senior consultant Senior consultant Lody Kuling Consultant Elena Koukouna Consultant Mike van Paassen Consultant

7 Meet the developers Blonk Consultants 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 agrifood sector.. Sustainable products & supply chains Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon Footprints Healthy & Sustainable diets Sustainable Nutrition Assessment Sustainable business management & reporting Sustainability Performance Management 8

8 Why did we develop Agri-footprint? An introduction 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. 9

9 3 allocation options Mass, Energy, Economic Land Use Change Fully integrated 5,000+ products & processes Crops, (intermediate) products from processing, feed compounds, food products, animal production systems Transparent Background documentation publically available Consistent with LCIA ILCD and ReCiPe Critically reviewed By RMIT University (version 1.0) and RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environmental, the Netherlands) (version 2.0) Frequent updates 2014 Release of first version in SimaPro 2015 Release of Agri-footprint 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) 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 Widely accepted and used By the food industry, LCA community, scientific community and governments worldwide 11

10 Wheat An example Wheat flour Wheat middlings Wheat bran Stable Building material Bedding material Wheat germ 12

11 Data in Agri-footprint What is available in the database? Scope: from cradle-to-gate Data quality: company specific & literature Seed production Machinery & infrastructure (capital goods) Energy consumption Irrigation water Manure production & application Transportation & logistics Pesticide & fertilizer: production & application Land occupation & land use change Pretreatment & processing 13

12 Geographical scope Agri-footprint Min. coverage Max. coverage

13 Agri-footprint: an overview Development of the database over the years AFP AFP AFP Crops/country ,000+* (Intermediate) products from processing Feed compounds Food products Animal production systems * Agri-footprint includes inventories for seed production 15

14 Direct Land Use Change Assessment Tool Fully integrated in Agri-footprint 3.0 Calculates greenhouse gas emissions from land use change Based on PAS 2050 & PAS frameworks, Basic methodology of which is now widely referenced in: PEF guidelines & Envifood Protocol Three basic functionalities: Country & land use unknown Country known & 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 16

15 Applications Some recent examples Agrifirm Sustainability labels Global Feed Lifecycle Institute (GFLI) Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Various scientific literature 17

16 Agrifirm s Sustainability Labels Application 18

17 Global Feed Lifecyle Institute Application 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 Agrifootprint development tools and background data; Data will be available in Agri-footprint. More info: globalfeedlca.org 19

18 openlca & Agri-footprint

19 openlca Introduction to the software a free and (yet) professional approach to Life Cycle Assessment: powerful, feature-rich, (comparatively) easy to use, technically up-to-date broadest selection of relevant, consistent LCI and sustainability databases available worldwide (!) developed by GreenDelta since 2006: completely open source (Mozilla Public License) 21

20 openlca Application (generic) Life Cycle Assessment, Social Life Cycle Assessment, Life Cycle Costing Carbon & Water footprint Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) 22

21 openlca Functions and features Graphical modeling of product systems Process networks can be created automatically and manually 23

22 openlca Functions and features Modeling with parameters, e.g. for sensitivity analysis Available on different levels process product system project impact method database 24

23 openlca Functions and features Impact assessment methods Method pack for impact assessment available for free, but not included by default in openlca Analysis and interpretation 25

24 openlca Where to get openlca Two options: Installer version and zip file 26

25 openlca Welcome to openlca! Importing databases from openlca Nexus Database structure 27

26 Agri-footprint in openlca Database structure The heart of the database: 28

27 Agri-footprint in openlca LIVE DEMO 29

28 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 30

29 Agri-footprint - Products & Services How Agri-footprint supports you Agri-footprint 3.0 Database (openlca & SimaPro 8.4) Company specific datasets Connection to your systems External Review Services Direct Land Use Change Assessment Tool LCAs & Carbon Footprints Impacts Extensions: more datasets Training & Workshops Go to: 31

30 What s next? Future ambitions for Agri-footprint 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! 32

31 Questions? Q&A session 33

32 Thank you! Questions? Reach out to us Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint elena@blonkconsultants.nl Franziska Möller GreenDelta / openlca moeller@greendelta.org 34

33 Let s keep in touch Where to find more information nexus.openlca.org Agri-footprint User Group openlca 35

34 Reach out to us! Agri-footprint & openlca understanding the impact of food LCA Food Database

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