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Carbon Footprint in the Seafood Industry. Reduction and Offsets Natacha Andre, SGS Belgium

Carbon Footprint in the Seafood Industry. Reduction and Offsets Natacha Andre, SGS Belgium Friend of the Sea Day Brussels, 27 April 2009. Agenda. What is SGS? Current approach by Friend of the Sea Audit experience Comparison to other approaches Reductions and offsets.

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Carbon Footprint in the Seafood Industry. Reduction and Offsets Natacha Andre, SGS Belgium

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  1. Carbon Footprint in the Seafood Industry. Reduction and Offsets Natacha Andre, SGS Belgium Friend of the Sea Day Brussels, 27 April 2009

  2. Agenda • What is SGS? • Current approach by Friend of the Sea • Audit experience • Comparison to other approaches • Reductions and offsets

  3. The world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. • Founded in Rouen in 1878 as French grain shipment inspection house • Headquartered in Geneva since 1919, • Publicly traded since 1985 • More than 55'000 employees • Europe, Middle East & Africa: 24’000 employees • Americas: 11’900 employees • Asia/Pacific: 16’100 employees • A network of over 1’000 offices & laboratories in over 140 countries

  4. Climate Change Programme • Established 1997 – 10 years experience • 200 experts worldwide • Actively engaged in shaping regulation • Associations (IETA, WBCSD) • Governmental and UN working groups • Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS): member of steering committee, chair of verification working group. • Accredited and active globally • EU ETS, CDM, JI, VCS, CCAR, CCX • SGS is active auditor for Friends of the Sea

  5. Agenda • What is SGS? • Current approach by Friend of the Sea • Audit experience • Comparison to other approaches • Reductions and offsets

  6. Friend of the Sea Criteria for sustainability • Fisheries (Captures) - the fishery targets a stock which is not considered to be overexploited according to the most updated stock status report from FAO, Regional Fishery Bodies or National Marine Authorities;- the fishing method does not bycatch species listed in the IUCN Redlist;- the fishing method does not discard more than 8% in weight of the total catch;- the fishing method does not impact the seabed;- the fishery complies with regulations (TAC, no IUU nor FOC, mesh size, minimum size, MAPs, etc). • Aquacultures - an Environmental Impact Assessment or equivalent be run before the development of the plant;- plant is not impacting critical habitats, such as mangroves, wetlands, etc;- procedures are in place to limit escapes of fish to a negligible level;- NO use of GMO and growth hormones;- NO use of antifouling paints;- Waste, Water, Feed and Energy Management are in place;- Use of FriendOfTheSea certified feed (currently for trout, seabream and seabass)

  7. Friend of the Sea certification checklist (1) • Criteria declined in specific requirements with three levels of importance: • Essential Requirements: compliance of 100% needed > Any deficiency against one of these requirements is considered as Major Non Conformity • Important Requirements: compliance of 100% needed > Any deficiency against one of these requirements is considered as a Minor Non Conformity • Recommended requirements: it’s not strictly necessary to comply with this kind of requirement in order to be granted the certificate.

  8. Friend of the Sea certification checklist (2) Criteria for Fisheries (Captures) Criteria for Aquacultures • 1 – STOCK STATUS CRITERIA • 2 – HABITAT IMPACT CRITERIA • 3 – SELECTIVITY CRITERIA • 4 – LEGAL COMPLIANCE CRITERIA • 5 – MANAGEMENT CRITERIA • 6 – SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY • 7 – FUEL EFFICIENCY/CARBON FOOTPRINT • 8 - WASTE MANAGEMENT • 9 - TRACEABILITY • 1 – SITING CRITERIA • 2 – BROODSTOCK AND SEEDLINGS CRITERIA • 3 – INFRASTRUCTURE CRITERIA • 4 – USE OF DRUGS AND OTHER CHEMICALS • 5 – OGM – HORMONES CRITERIA • 6 – FEEDING CRITERIA • 7 – WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT CRITERIA • 8 – ENERGY MANAGEMENT CRITERIA • 9 – TRANSPORT CRITERIA • 10 – HAZARDOUS MATERIAL • 11 - MANAGEMENT SYSTEM • 12 – SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY • 13 – FUEL EFFICIENCY/CARBON FOOTPRINT • 14- SPECIES SPECIFIC CRITERIA • 15- TRACEABILITY

  9. Friend of the Sea certification checklist (3) Fuel efficiency/carbon footprint The Organization shall meet not later than 12 months after certification the following requirements (essential) : • Assess its products’ carbon footprint AND • Offset 20% of its carbon footprint every year, by purchasing certified carbon offsets (generated from projects that avoid/absorb CO2) OR • Provide evidence of yearly total energy consumption reduction of 20%.

  10. How to assess the carbon footprint? • Individual approach or • Use of FotS calculator - CO2/kg Seafood • Direct emissions • Default value by category (aquaculture/fishery) and fish; OR • Specific value: kg fuel / kg fish • Transport emissions • Worst case approach for different types of transport (air, sea, road)

  11. Agenda • What is SGS? • Current approach by Friend of the Sea • Audit experience • Comparison to other approaches • Reductions and offsets

  12. Audit Experience Range of audit results • Not undertaken where recommendation only • Planned but not met, when essential requirement • Various initiatives in place such as • fuel consumption monitoring on the vessel • "dead ship” at night, • servicing of engines, • battery forklifts at cold stores • No numbers reported yet

  13. Thoughts on this approach • Take up by industry slow – more guidance required? • Carbon footprint calculation per kg of product is NOT a simple task! • How to set the boundaries (ship, office, infrastructure, input products, transport to client)? • What emission factors to use? • How to calibrate measurement equipment? • … • Concrete guidance on how to calculate the footprint is essential to get to comparable values across industry

  14. Agenda • What is SGS? • Current approach by Friend of the Sea • Audit experience • Comparison to other approaches • Reductions and offsets

  15. Carbon intensity reporting approach of Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation • The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation Programme places from April 2008 an obligation on fuel suppliers to ensure that a certain percentage of their aggregate sales is made up of biofuels. • The effect of this will be to require 5% of all UK fuel sold on UK forecourts to come from a renewable source by 2010. • The evidence is in the form of RTF certificates issued for each litre of renewable fuel supplied. • Choice of monitored/verified data or default value could be applied to fishing industry

  16. Possible application to fishing industry (per type of product)

  17. Accredited standard for product carbon footprint calculation • New standard developed in UK: PAS 2050 • Green House Gas Protocol • Combination of existing credible ISO standards • ISO 14064 for greenhouse gas emissions • ISO 14044 for life cycle assessments

  18. Accredited standard for product carbon footprint calculation – ISO 14064 • 6 GHG have to be reported: CO2, Methane, Nitrous oxide, HFCs, HFE, PFC • SHALL quantify the direct emissions> scope 1 • SHALLquantify energy indirect emissions>scope 2 • MAY quantify other indirect GHG emissions > scope 3

  19. Accredited standard for product carbon footprint calculation – ISO 14064 Principles

  20. Carbon footprint calculations • Steps in identifying and calculating GHG sources: BOUNDARIES !!! Vessel propulsion - Onboard processing Refrigeration - Freezing RELEVANCE COMPLETENESS CONSISTENCYTRANSPARENCY ACCURACY Individual approach FoS Calculation Tool Monitoring Default emission factors Roll Up Data to product level Kg CO2/kg Fish

  21. Agenda • What is SGS? • Current approach by Friend of the Sea • Audit experience • Comparison to other approaches • Reductions and offsets

  22. Reduction and offsets • Always try to reduce internally first! • More energy efficient motors • Switch from fuel intensive techniques to alternative (passive) techniques • Example*: fuel needed to catch and land a kilo of Norway lobster can be reduced from 9 litres to 2.2 litres by switching from conventional trawl fisheries to creel fisheries. This would also significantly reduce the by-catch of non-target species and provide the consumer with a Norway lobster of better quality since it is not squashed in the trawler’s net. • Carbon offsetting is under very close public scrutiny • Credible approach to baseline setting and monitoring essential • Third party verification is a must • Only use high quality credits to offset your emissions • Kyoto Mechanisms (CDM/JI) • Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) • Gold Standard * Example extracted from « Seas et Risk » website

  23. Summary • No numbers reported yet • Concrete guidance on how to calculate the product‘s carbon footprint is essential to get to comparable values across industry • Guidance can be based on existing systems (biofuels) • Start small - boundaries • Once the Carbon footprint is evaluated, the reduction and/or offsetting targets can be fixed

  24. Thank you.Natacha.Andre@sgs.comRobert.Dornau@sgs.comFor more information and your local SGS contact www.sgs.com/climatechange

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