The Product Biodiversity Footprint

Product Biodiversity Footprint – B@B Workshop– 18 september 2018

Product Biodiversity Footprint

EU B@B Platform workshop

18 September 2018


PBF way: find a good compromise between Ecologist & Life Cycle Assessment experts

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The ecologists world The LCA world


2016: launch of Product Biodiversity Project Phase 1 : a public-private initiative

Public

• May 2016: PBF awarded public funds fromFrench Government within the « SME Initiative for Biodiversity» programme

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Private

1st phase sponsors

R&D Investment

Co-developerInitiator and leader of

the project

Scientific committee


PBF Objectives & Features

An ecodesign objective for products : the method aims to distinguish between the variants of a product the one with lower impacts on biodiversity

• Comparative approach

• Mainly dedicated to differences within same product system

• In the long run : increased robustness of absolute value

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Discriminating capacity

LCA based approach

Enriching LCA model (s) with biodiversity/ecology knowledge

• Starting from LCA framework and guidelines (UNEP/SETAC)

• Integrating ecological studies as add-ons to LCA framework

MEA scope

Covering the 5 pressures on biodiversity (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment)

• Impact on biodiversity of Habitat change, Pollution, Climate Change, Invasive species, Species management

• Using quantitative impact and qualitative impact

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PBF clearly positioned on the commodity/product scalevs. other initiatives

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Investment scale Company scale Commodity scale Product scale

PBF by I Care / Sayari

10YFP guide on biodiversity assessment initiatives in Food sector (sept 18)

Integration in BiodiversityAssessmentToolkit for Agri value chain


PBF result: a comparative impact on the 5 pressures on biodiversity

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(1) Impact assessed on pdf.year: Potential Disappeared Fraction of species per year

(2) Impact assessed on qualitative score

Land useLand transformationWater stress

AcidificationEutrophicationPhotochemical oxydation

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(1)

(1)

(1)

(2)

(2)

Impact on species

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How it works: PBF architecture

Module 2 : Biodiversity « fine

tuning » layer• Practices

• Local parameters

Quantitative indicators

Potential species lost (global and regional)

Qualitative indicators

Score on each of the 5 pressures on biodiversity

Maps

Additional biodiversity database (IUCN, Predicts, etc.)

Product biodiv. datacertification schemes,

etc.

LCIA Characterization

factors

LCI Data (ecoinvent,

agribalyse …)

Product Foreground data Inventory, Practices, Local info

Module 3: Non LCA

Biodiversity impacts layer

Tool

Restitution

User Entry

Module 1 : Spatialized LCA

Biodiversity layer


Zoom on the 3 PBF modules

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• Land occupation and transformation models are recommended by UNEP-SETAC

• Based on the latest LCA developments

• Spatial differentiation (spatial resolution of CFs at native, country and global level)

Module 2 : Biodiversity « fine tuning » layer

Module 3: Non LCA Biodiversity impacts

layer

Module 1 : Spatialized LCA

Biodiversity layer

Practices refinement• Using biodiversity

literature to translate practices into biodiversity impact

Local biodiversity refinement• Local Richness compared

to Native resolution (eg.Ecoregion) Richness

• Using PREDICT Biodiversity Intactness Index and other local information

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-Y%

CF

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-Z%

Standard qualitative analysis gridto assess impact of two pressures

• Species management

• Invasive species


Feedback from Road-Test (I)Case study

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Agricultural phase

Raw Materials supply to bottling

site in France

Formula Raw Materials

transformation

Use and end-of-lifeBottling process

Packaging Raw Material Distribution

Product case study

Ecological literaturemobilized to assessimpact of different

practices on biodiversity

• Variant in agricultural phase : Culture of palm oil in Malaysia✓ Sustainable Palm oil culture, from SPOTS project (biodiversity practices and lower yield)

versus standard culture

1 bottle of 200 ml of shower gel (15 uses), cradle to gate perimeter

Use of studies which report palm oil impact on species richness in palm oil plantation comparedto primary forest in Malaysia (Azhar et al., 2011; Fitzherbert et al., 2008; Yaap et al., 2010).

Yaap et al., 2010


Feedback from Road-Test (II)Key take outs for the company

Today

• PBF method useful to compare the potential benefit for biodiversity of a sustainable variant scenario relative to a standard one

• Possibility to compare 2 actual scenariior 1 actual scenario to 1 virtual one to guide eco-design

Expected tomorrow

• Increase robustness of the method with further impacts (e.g. toxicity)

• Bring together all biodiversity pressures in a single comparable score to facilitateinterpretation/communication of results and decision-making

• Build a user friendly and poweful tool to be able to embed this method in companyinnovation process

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Wrap-up: PBF value for business: Transcript real biodiversityprogress « on the ground » into product footprint

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• Cover all pressures

• Value not only high-yield variants

• Value specific ecology studies really adapted to sector / industry

• Value efforts on the field thanks to local biodiversity data

Company

Reference Product

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20%

40%

60%

80%

100%Habitat change

Pollution

Climate changeSpecies management

Invasive species

Cradle-to-gate evaluation (M1+M2+M3)5 pressures of the MEA

Reference Variant

Variant Product with biodiversity practicesSpecific LCI

Local Ecology data

Industry sectorEcology studies


PBF status: Phase 2 to start end 2018 with three main workpackages

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Industrialize roll-out in Agricultural based sectors

Build and test othersectoral PBF referentials

Increase practicality and robustness of transversal

methodology & tool

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B

C

• Include toxicity, marine biodiversity, overexploitation• Provide user friendly web-based tool interface

• Build database of biodiversity practices impact for main crops & livestocks

Extraction Building materials

Energy production Energy infrastructure

Water Chemicals

Case studies recruitment still open for phase 2


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