Towards transparent and

harmonized environmental

footprinting for the EU feed

and livestok sectors

Nicolas MARTIN

FEFAC

Lisbon – 20 January 2016

Outline

• The need to measure the impact on the

environment

• Main policy drivers

• FEFAC action plan

• Milestones for 2017 and next steps

The need to measure the

impact on the environment

• Feed and livestock industry

under pressure (market

and institutional pressure)

• Need to communicate on

reliable figures

• No green washing

• Common methodology is

pre-competitive and part of

customers expectations

• Sustainable development is

an opportunity !

We need

to build

our case !

Nobody

will do it

for us.

Feed production represents 45% of the

carbon footprint of livestock products

globally (FAO)

Livestock feed supply chains

Main policydrivers

• Implementation of COP 21 agreement

• EU 2020 strategy: single market for

green products

COP 21

• EU Council ratified the Paris Agreement on 4 October

• Paris agreement entered into force on 5 November2016 (55 countries, 55% of emissions)

• Binding reduction target: 40% in 2030 versus 1990

• Agriculture: 10% of EU GHG emissions, 24% reduction since 1990

• Effort sharing decision: draft regulation published in July 2016

• Allocation among MS to be discussed at EU level, allocation among sectors is national decision

Distribution to be determined by

council decision

Non ETS sectors

Effort Sharing Decision

(transport, buildings, waste,

agriculture)

ETS

EU Emission Trading

System

EU INDC for 2030:

-40% compared to 1990

LULUCF

Land Use, Land

Use Change and

Foresty

Its role to be

determined in

2030 framework

discussion

-30%-43%

National reduction binding

targets (proposal)

LU 40% NL 36% MT 19% LT 9%

SE 40% AT 36% PT 17% PL 7%

DK 39% BE 35% EL 16% HR 7%

FI 39% IT 33% SI 15% HU 7%

DE 38% IE 30% CZ 14% LV 6%

FR 37% ES 26% EE 13% RO 2%

UK 37% CY 24% SK 12% BG 0%

• Scope: energy, industrial processes and

product use, agriculture and waste

EUROPE 2020 Strategy

Delivering more sustainable consumption

and production

• By 2020, produce the right incentives for

citizens to choose the most resource efficient

products and services, through appropriate

price signals and clear environmental

information

– Single Market for Green Products

– Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) published in

April 2013

• Ensure more environmental friendly products

on the EU market

• Promote sustainable consumption

Pilot test of the PEF

• 3 main objectives

– Development of sector rules (PEFCR)

– Verification

– Communication

• 2 waves

– Non food

– Food

• End of pilot: November 2017

• Integration in new or existing policies as from

2018

What’s next on the EC

agenda?

17

Policy discussion

Future

policies

Peer review of the pilot phase and of alternative methods tested under similar conditions (2017)

Internal evaluation of the pilots 2017

FEFAC’s response to policy

drivers

• Harmonization of environmental

footprinting methodology to strengthen

credibility and establish a level playing

filed.

• Development of LCA database to enable

transparent monitoring and demonstrate

continuous improvement.

• Service provider to livestock industry

Harmonization of environmental

footprinting: FEFAC activities

• International level (FAO) : – first feed-specific LCA guidelines which reflect a

consensus among partners in the multi-stakeholder process, including the FAO, national governments, private sector organisations as well as NGOs

• At EU level: – Food SCP Round Table (ENVIFOOD Protocol):

Scientifically reliable and uniform methodology for food and drinks

– Feed PEF pilot: feed-specific rules aligned with EC methodology

What is LEAP?

• International, multi-stakeholder, partnership

• Focused on:

• Livestock supply chains

• Life-cycle thinking

• Environmental assessment and performance

• Based on principles of

• Transparency

• Consensus

• Science-based decision making

• Led by FAO

The objective of LEAP

• To develop internationallyagreed sector-levelmethodologies and guidance to allow• transparent,

• robust,

• and fair measurement of the environmental performance of livestock supply chains

• FAO / LEAP Feed LCA Guidelines officially releasedon 23rd April 2015

The Feed PEF pilot

• Set the ground for harmonized communication of

environmental performance of feed and feed

products, in line with the technical requirements of

the European Commission

• Avoid distortion of competition, by setting pre-

competitive and harmonized methodological rules

• Build on the value already created with the current

projects

• Breaking down internationally accepted

methodologies to the European level

• Coordinated input for livestock projects

Feed Technical Secretariat

M0

M27

The TS starts working (administrative arrangements already finalised)

M3 1st Physical consultation (scope + draft representative product model)

Approval of scope and representative model by the Steering Committee

M8 PEF screening on the representative product

M9 Draft PEFCR

1st Online consultation (draft PEFCR) M10

M13 Second draft PEFCR

M14

M19 (at least) 3 PEFCR supporting studies completed

2nd consultation (final draft PEFCR, including benchmarks and classes of performance if relevant)

M20

M23 Independent review of the final PEFCR

Approval of the PEFCR by the Steering Committee

Feed PEF pilot – where are we

now?

November 2017

“Without data, you’re just

another person with an

opinion”

W. Edward Deming

Global Feed LCA Institute

• Support meaningful LCAs of livestock products by

providing a public database with high quality

secondary data

• Support livestock community with a tailor made

LCA tool

• Global reference

• Free access to all deliverables (database + tool)

LEAP Steering Committee

GFLI Management Board

• Composition: GFLI Chairman, IFIF representative, Representatives

of all Project Steering Groups, FAO representative with observer

status

• Role: Vision, budget, coordination of Project Steering Group

activities, approval of deliverables, ensuring the sucessful and

timely completion of deliverables, promotion and expansion

EU Project Steering Group

US/Canada Project Steering Group

• Composition: all paying members

(companies and associations)

• Role: regional project implementation

Fish Feed Project Steering Group

• Kick off in Q1 2017

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Improvement of

environmnental

perfomance of

livestock products

Feed

community

• Education and

training

• Hotspot analysis

• Identification of

mitigation options

Institutional

partners

Livestock

commodity

groups

Scientific

communityOther

initiatives

• Support for policy development (eg PEF)

• Facilitate access to data

• Improve quality of assessment

Outreach

• GFLI selected for EC PEF

tender

• Partnership with Cool Farm

Alliance

• Partnership with Round Table

on Sustainable Beef

• Need to expand partnerships

• Relationship established with UNEP

(network of LCA databases)

Conclusion: concrete synergies

for environmental footprinting !

methodology data

Feed PEFCR

Alignment and

complementarity

Milestones and next steps

• Global consistency is ensured (LEAP)

• Final vote on PEFCR in November 2017– Outreach to Member State representatives is necessary

• Future policy will be supported by GFLI data

(PEF tender awarded to GFLI)

• GFLI tool will be developed in 2017

• Need to raise awareness and build ownership

of these new tools (methodology and

database)

Thank you for your attention

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