Chalmers Conferences, LCM 2013

COLLECTIVE ACTION TO ADDRESS GHG EMISSIONS IN SEAFOOD – STANDARDS, TOOL AND MANUAL
Erik Skontorp Hognes

Last modified: 2014-09-11

Abstract


By providing means to make LCA based GHG assessments a more operative and applicable tool for the seafood industry the cooperation framework "Collective action to address GHG emissions in seafood" wish to help reduce the energy use and GHG emissions from food production. During the previous year two new standards for carbon footprint of seafood products have been developed to provide fair and transparent reporting on the carbon footprint of a seafood product. In addition a web based tool for carbon footprint of wild caught seafood products and a manual for GHG assessment of seafood products are under development.

Keywords


Seafood; GHG assessment; standards; tool; manual

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