A Methodological Proposal for Corporate Carbon Footprint and Its Application to a Wine-Producing Company in Galicia, Spain

Penela, Adolfo Carballo; García-Negro, María do Carme; Quesada, Juan Luís Doménech

doi:10.1201/b18459-3

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“…Wine LCA studies vary on the type of wine, white (Fusi et al, 2014) or red (Gazulla et al, 2010;Pattara et al, 2012;Amienyo et al, 2014); the country where wine is produced, such as Spain (Gazulla et al, 2010;Vázquez-Rowe et al, 2012a;2012b;Meneses, et al, 2016), France (Bellon-Maurel, V., et al, 2015), Italy (Benedetto, 2013;Iannone et al, 2016;Marras, S., et al, 2015), Portugal (Neto et al, 2013), Australia (Thomas, 2011), Canada (Point et al, 2012;Steenwerth, K.L., et al, 2015); and the life cycle stages included in the study, cradle to grave (Gazulla et al, 2010;Meneses, et al, 2016) or cradle to gate (Pattara et al, 2012). Many other published studies tackle only the CF of wine production systems, either PCF (Cholette et al, 2009;Pattara et al, 2012;Vazquez-Rowe et al, 2013) or CCF: one vineyard in Italy (Marras, S., et al, 2015) and a winery in Spain with no inventory data (Penela et al, 2009). Wine LCA-related publications presenting inventory data (see Table 7) will be reviewed according to the above mentioned aim of the present paper.…”

Section: Carbon Footprint In the Wine Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…LCA is generally performed in a process-oriented approach, a "bottom-up" approach which needs to build the supply chain of the process and get data from each process unit. The process-oriented approach is not the only one used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product, due to the difficulties to get data from companies in the value chain, the time needed to perform such LCA studies and possible truncation errors (Lenzen, 2000), other approaches are described in the literature derived from the Environmental Input-Output (EIO) methodology based on financial accounts (Huang et al, 2009;Penela et al, 2009;Cagiao et al, 2011;Alvarez et al, 2014;Kjaer et al, 2015;. The hybrid approach (using both process-LCA and EIO methodologies) is a "top down" approach in which inventories are quantified using monetary data at a high aggregation level, and hybridized with "bottom-up" process-based data collection, when more detail is needed (Berners-Lee, et al, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Product vs corporate carbon footprint: Some methodological issues. A case study and review on the wine sector

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Puig

Fullana–i–Palmer³

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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Carbon footprint (CF) is nowadays one of the most widely used environmental indicators. The scope of the CF assessment could be corporate (when all production processes of a company are evaluated, together with upstream and downstream processes following a life cycle approach) or product (when one of the products is evaluated throughout its life cycle). Our hypothesis was that usually product CF studies (PCF) collect corporate data, because it is easier for companies to obtain them than product data. Six main methodological issues to take into account when collecting corporate data to be used for PCF studies were postulated and discussed in the present paper: fugitive emissions, credits from waste recycling, use of "equivalent factors", reference flow definition, accumulation and allocation of corporate values to minor products. A big project with 18 wineries, being wine one of the most important agri-food products assessed through CF methodologies, was used to study and to exemplify these 6 methodological issues. One of the main conclusions was that indeed, it is possible to collect corporate inventory data in a per year basis to perform a PCF, but having in mind the 6 methodological issues described here. In the literature, most of the papers are presenting their results as a PCF, while they collected company data and obtained, in fact, a "key performance indicator" (ie., COeq emissions per unit of product produced), which is then used as a product environmental impact figure. The methodology discussed in this paper for the wine case study is widely applicable to any other product or industrial activity.

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Section: Carbon Footprint In the Wine Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product vs corporate carbon footprint: Some methodological issues. A case study and review on the wine sector

Navarro

Puig

Fullana–i–Palmer³

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…As for the geographical context, this paper analyses case studies in France, Italy, Spain, USA and Australia …”

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Carbon footprint as an instrument for enhancing food quality: overview of the wine, olive oil and cereals sectors

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Russo

Antrodicchia

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J. Sci. Food Agric.

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The quantification of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions represents a critical issue for the future development of agro-food produces. Consumers' behaviour could play an important role in requiring environmental performance as an essential element for food quality. Nowadays, the carbon footprint (CFP) is a tool used worldwide by agro-food industries to communicate environmental information. This paper aims to investigate the role that CFP could have in consumers' choices in three significant agro-food sectors in the Mediterranean area: wine, olive oil and cereals. A critical review about the use of CFP was carried out along the supply chain of these three sectors, in order to identify opportunities for enhancing food quality and environmental sustainability and highlighting how environmental information could influence consumers' preferences. The analysis of the state of the art shows a great variability of the results about GHG emissions referred to agricultural and industrial processes. In many cases, the main environmental criticisms are linked to the agricultural phase, but the other phases of the supply chain could also contribute to the increased CFP. However, despite the wide use of CFP by companies as a communication tool to help consumers' choices in agro-food products, some improvements are needed in order to provide clearer and more understandable information. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.

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Energy efficiency for wine companies: Regional sustainability initiatives in the Guadalupe valley from a transdisciplinary perspective

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2022

Cleaner Energy Systems

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A Methodological Proposal for Corporate Carbon Footprint and Its Application to a Wine-Producing Company in Galicia, Spain

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Product vs corporate carbon footprint: Some methodological issues. A case study and review on the wine sector

Product vs corporate carbon footprint: Some methodological issues. A case study and review on the wine sector

Carbon footprint as an instrument for enhancing food quality: overview of the wine, olive oil and cereals sectors

Energy efficiency for wine companies: Regional sustainability initiatives in the Guadalupe valley from a transdisciplinary perspective

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