FoodCarbonScope™ is a
web-based LCA software tool for the modeling and analysis of life cycle greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions, energy use and water use in food and beverage products.
FoodCarbonScope™ has been expertly designed from the
ground up to help the food and beverage industry meet the challenges of
sustainable production and consumption.
Key Benefits
- Provides an interactive, easy-to-use platform for
analyzing complex product supply chains.
- Comprehensive analysis, covering all life cycle stages
from cradle to grave (agriculture, processing/packaging,
distribution, retail, cooking, waste disposal, etc.) and accounting for all GHG emissions and resource use.
- Comes with the largest commercially available life
cycle inventory (LCI) database for North American food production and
processing, , as well as additional data for Europe and
other parts of the world.
- Delivers standards-compliant life cycle assessment (LCA)
results at a fraction of the typical costs associated with conventional LCAs of
food and beverages.
- Can be used for both product LCAs
and corporate value chain (scope 3) analysis.
- Highly customizable to match the level of detail needed
for the problem at hand.
- Targets the three environmental metrics that are most
critical for businesses and consumers: GHG emissions, energy use and water use.
Features
FoodCarbonScope™
offers a complete set of modeling and analysis features needed to analyze both
simple and complex product life cycles in the food and beverage industry.
For more information, please review the
product technical brief.
Applications
Analysis and results from
FoodCarbonScope™ can be used in a
variety of applications:
- Product eco-labeling – including carbon and water
footprint labels – and other business-to-business and business-to-consumer
sustainability communications.
- Competitive environmental benchmarking of food and
beverage products.
- Identification of environmental hotspots and other
inefficiencies in supply chains.
- Comparative evaluation of alternative suppliers,
logistics, packaging and processing.
- Analysis of “what-if” scenarios to evaluate the
potential benefits of supply-chain modifications and optimizations.
- Reporting of corporate value
chain (scope 3) GHG emissions, along with scope 1 and scope 2 emissions.
Standards
FoodCarbonScope™ complies with applicable
international standards (ISO 14040 series,
PAS 2050) for life-cycle assessment and product carbon
footprint analysis, and will comply with other major standards that are in
development.