an introduction to Agri-footprint 3.0 & SimaPro 8.4 Blonk Consultants & PRé Sustainability Understanding the impact of food 14 th of September, 2017
Welcome! PRé Sustainability & Blonk Consultants 2
Welcome introduction TIME WHAT WHO 16:00 16:05 Introduction & practical issues Elena 16:05 16:10 What s new in SimaPro 8.4 Paula 16:10 16:25 What is Agri-footprint? Elena 16:25 16:35 Agri-footprint in SimaPro 8.4 - Demonstration Paula 16:35 16:45 Some limitations of Agri-food LCAs Elena 16:45 16:55 Questions & Answers Elena & Paula 16:55 17:00 Wrap up Elena & Paula 17:00 Closure Elena & Paula Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint elena@blonkconsultants.nl Paula Bernstein PRé sustainability / SimaPro bernstein@pre-sustainability.com 3
PRé Puts the Metrics behind Sustainability For over 25 years, PRé has worked to help businesses clarify their goals, develop effective strategies and integrate processes for measuring sustainability indicators in supply chain, product development or organisation. Innovating with new metrics to meet customer and stakeholder expectations, like PEF and Social Impact Assessment Helping you integrating, select and clarify sustainability business targets, select the right metrics, and implement a sustainability program Delivering targeted analyses and expert advice on LCA studies, databases and specific topics 4
SimaPro Market Leading Software Used in more than 80 countries, with over 3000 users Local support by 24 partners Active SimaPro community 5
What s New in SimaPro 8.40?
New Look and Feel Modernized look & feel Some things have been moved or added No major updates to software functionality A number of bug fixes and improvements
Database Updates -Available in SimaPro. Detailed insights will be provided by Blonk, the developer of Agri-Footprint Industry Data 2.0-11 new datasets added US LCI -Minor update- corrected water flows
Impact Assessment Methods Updates ReCiPe 2016 -Extensive differences compared to previous version of ReCipe -Results are not comparable -Implemented as a new method and not as an update of the previous ReCiPe 2008 method - USEtox 2 added a new method characterization factors for existing substances have been updated -about 600 new substances have been added -Includes midpoint and endpoint calculations, but no normalization AWARE -Updated to include all unspecified water flows
Agri-footprint - LCA food database An introduction 10
Agri-footprint 3.0 is a high quality and comprehensive life cycle inventory (LCI) database, focused on the agriculture and food sector. Release of Agri-footprint 1.0 in SimaPro Agri-footprint - Over the years Release of Agri-footprint 2.0 Release of Agri-footprint 3.0 available for SimaPro 8.4 and openlca Expected: Release of Agri-footprint 4.0 Expected: Release of Agri-footprint 5.0 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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
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 13
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Why did we develop Agri-footprint? An introduction Essential basis for making the agri-food sector more sustainable is accurate and clear information; 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; Since 2014 available for SimaPro users. 15
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 www.blonkconsultants.nl/landusechange 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 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) 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 16
Agri-footprint 3.0 What s new? 17
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 18
Agri-footprint 3.0 What is new? EXPANSION OF SCOPE FOR CROPS The global coverage of the production of crops has been expanded (i.e. more crop country combinations). SEED PRODUCTION Life cycle inventories (LCIs) for the production of seeds were added. CAPITAL GOODS LCIs for the production of tractors, basic farm infrastructure and storage silos are now included in Agri-footprint, and linked to the crop inventories. PESTICIDE PRODUCTION Life cycle inventories (LCIs) for the production of pesticides were added. Three different types of LCIs were generated; LCI s for the production of specific pesticides, for specific pesticide families and for pesticide families. EXPANSION OF PROCESSING SCOPE Amongst others groundnut processing, ethanol production, fish meal and oil production are now included. MORE COMPANY SPECIFIC DATA Data for the production of humic acid production from Vitens are now included in the database UPDATES OF BACKGROUND DATA Most recent FAO statistics for crop yields, and manure application, most recent land use change tool, IFA statistics on fertilizer consumptions in countries. SMALL ADDITIONS AND BUG FIXES Correction of small errors. Addition of transport of goods to the farm. 19
Agri-footprint: an overview Development of Agri-footprint database AFP 1.0 2014 AFP 2.0 2015 AFP 3.0 2017 Crops/country 80+ 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 Go to: www.agri-footprint.com/products 20
Geographical scope Agri-footprint 1.0 21
Geographical scope Agri-footprint 2.0 22
Geographical scope Agri-footprint 3.0 23
BROILER BREEDING Inputs: Compound feed I Water Energy input Transport Emissions from manure management Chicken meat production system Broiler parent < 20 weeks % Maize % Wheat % Soybean meal etc Emissions from manure management ANIMAL FARMING (BROILER PARENTS) Inputs: Compound feed II Water Energy input Transport Broiler parent > 20 weeks Consumption eggs Hatching eggs HATCHERY SLAUGTHERHOUSE Inputs: Heat Inputs: Transport Energy Feedgrade co-products Foodgrade products Contribution to Climate Change One-day chicken Energy and transport Emissions from soil (direct and indirect N20, NH3, CO 2 ) Inputs: Compound feed III Water Energy input Transport ANIMAL FARMING (BROILERS) Broilers for slaughterhouse Emissions from manure management CO 2 due to land use change Inputs: Transport Energy SLAUGTHERHOUSE Feedgrade co-products Foodgrade products 24
Agri-footprint in SimaPro 8.4
Agri-food LCAs with Agri-footprint Carbon storage at cultivation (temporary carbon storage, cradle to gate system) End-of-Life of food (use phase not include) Attributional is used instead of Consequential LCA Crop rotation No underlying credits applied 26
Data uncertainties of agri-food LCAs Outdated or poor quality data Scattered or NO data Crop yields Agronomical practices Logistics Prices of products Food losses (throughout the supply chain) Waste and wastewater treatment 27
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 Cooperation: Share your data! Share your ideas! 28
Questions? Q&A 29
Thank you! Reach out to us Elena Koukouna Blonk Consultants / Agri-footprint elena@blonkconsultants.nl Paula Bernstein PRé Sustainability / SimaPro bernstein@pre-sustainability.com 30
Let s keep in touch Where to find more information www.agri-footprint.com www.blonkconsultants.nl www.simapro.com www.pre-sustainability.com Agri-footprint User Group SimaPro LCA software 31
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