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•The world’s leading sustainability consultancy
Achieving Emissions Reductions Crop Protection Products’ Role in Creating a Sustainable Agriculture
•The world’s leading sustainability consultancy
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The threat from climate change Source: World Economic Forum,
Global Risks 2012
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What will happen to agricultural greenhouse gas
emissions as we address the increasing global demand for crops?
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Feeding the World According to the United
Nations, by 2050 • the world’s population is
expected to reach 8.9 billion 1
• food production must
increase by 70% to meet
this growing demand 2
• And adapt to climate change itself
• In 2005, agriculture accounted for 10%-12% of total global
anthropogenic GHG emissions 3
1 United Nations (2004), Department of Economic and Social Affairs/ Population Division, World Population to 2300 2 United Nation Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 3 Smith P, et al (2007) Agriculture. Climate Change 2007: Mitigation Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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What is Life Cycle Assessment & Carbon Footprinting?
• LCA is a technique for assessing the environmental aspects and potential impacts associated with a product or service
• by compiling an inventory of inputs and outputs; evaluating the potential environmental impacts; and interpreting the results of the inventory analysis (ISO 14040, 2006)
• A product carbon footprint is a streamlined version of an LCA
• focuses on greenhouse gases only,
• reported as a single figure, carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2)
EMISSIONSeg N2O from soil, CH4 from manure
growing of crop
Use &
Disposal
Production food products/ biofuels
harvesting
raw materialseg seeds,
fertilisers, crop protection
INPUTS eg energy, water
cradle to gate cradle to grave
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What activities contribute the most to the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with
crop production?
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GHG Emissions Associated with Maize Growing
61% 31% 6%
1% 1%Crop protection products Fertiliser production Fertiliser application
Energy and fuels Other inputs
• Key contributor to GHG emissions of maize growing is the production of and N2O emissions associated with the application of fertilisers
• Higher yields are achieved through nutrient application, ie a balance to be created between yield and GHG emissions
• Crop protection does not contribute significantly, accounting for 1% of the total
Figure does not include for land use change
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Carbon Footprint of the Cultivation of Cotton
34% 18% 44%
4% 1%Crop protection products Fertiliser production Fertiliser application
Energy and fuels Other inputs
• Key contributors to the GHG emissions associated with cotton production are energy and fertilizer production and application
• Again, a direct link between yield and GHG emissions
• Crop protection does not contribute significantly, accounting for 4% of the total
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Industry Life Cycle Thinking Initiatives
• Building a better understanding of the climate change impacts of and benefits with crop protection products in the context of agricultural production
• Collaborate to calculate the average GHG emissions associated with CPP in order to meet demand for information and support further understanding of the GHG impacts of agriculture
The average GHG emissions associated with the production of CPP is calculated to be
5.5 kg CO2e per litre of finished product
This is based on a collaborative project between CropLife and the main producers and builds on company own information covering the ‘cradle-to-gate’ aspects of CPP production
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Monitoring progress towards meeting needs
• Striking the right balance - between increasing yield and GHG emissions
• And understanding how to achieve this
• understanding the climate change impacts per tonne crop produced
• Including monitoring progress
• how key factors interlink to achieve improved yield
• at a level that provides the best insight
• model farms / pilots?
• natural level?
• regional level?
• all of the above
farming practices
nutrients
crop protection
irrigation
temperatureseeds
farm machinery
harvesting techniques
IMPROVEDYIELD
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Final Remarks
• With growing populations and limited global land available for crop growing, yield gain is the focus area
• Crop protection products play a key part in this
• …and in adapting to climate change, their role may become even more important
• Focus for the crop protection sector is to avoid crop loss at minimal GHG emissions
• which means lower GHG emissions per quantity of crop produced
• …not necessarily per quantity of CPP
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About ERM ERM is a leading global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk and social consulting services in influential assignments. For over 40 years we have been working with clients around the world and in diverse industry sectors to help them to understand and manage their impacts. Over 4,00 employees in 40 countries across the globe. Over the past five years we have worked for approximately 60% of the Global Fortune 500.
Simon Aumônier
Principal Partner
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