Product Biodiversity Footprint – B@B Workshop– 18 september 2018
Product Biodiversity Footprint
EU B@B Platform workshop
18 September 2018
Product Biodiversity Footprint – B@B 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
Product Biodiversity Footprint – B@B Workshop– 18 september 2018
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
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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
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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
(2)
(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
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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
+X%
-Y%
CF
+X%
-Z%
Standard qualitative analysis gridto assess impact of two pressures
• Species management
• Invasive species
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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
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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
0%
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
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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
A
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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