Product carbon footprinting in Thailand: A step towards sustainable consumption and production?

Mungkung, Rattanawan; Gheewala, Shabbir H.; Kanyarushoki, Claver; Hospido, Almudena; Werf, Hayo M.G. van der; Poovarodom, Ngamtip; Aubin, Joël; Moreira, Marı́a Teresa

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2012.03.019

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“…tinplate cans) and energy, respectively. A carbon footprint analysis of Thai tuna canning, based on a fuel-intensive tuna fishery, also identified the provision of raw materials, tinplate cans and process energy as the main drivers of global warming potential (climate change) (Mungkung et al 2012). A recent study of canned sardine from Portugal (Almeida et al 2015), supplied by a fishery with a FUI of 111-113 L/t (Almeida et al 2013), also identified the provision of (aluminium) cans as the main contributor to most impact categories.…”

Section: Life Cycle Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

Life cycle assessment of Ecuadorian processed tuna

Avadí

Bolaños²,

Sandoval³

et al. 2015

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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Purpose Ecuador is an important player in the global tuna fishing and processing industry: The Ecuadorian industrial tuna fleet represents 17 % of the global tuna purse seiner fleet, and it is the second largest tuna processing country after Thailand. The fishing and processing operations of one of the largest vertically integrated tuna processing firms in Ecuador were evaluated regarding their environmental impacts and assumed representative of the Ecuadorian tuna processing industry. Results were compared with those of other international fish processing and other sources of animal protein for human consumption. Directions are finally identified toward reducing environmental impacts of both the tuna fishery and processing industry. Methods Detailed operational fishery and processing data was collected from a representative Ecuadorian tuna processing firm, and the life cycle assessment framework applied to it for hotspot identification. Two functional units were used: 1 t of final product (for canned, pouched, vacuum bagged and mean products) and 1 t of Bfish in product^, which includes all process losses and normalises the final product/raw fish ratios among the different processing routes analysed. The ReCiPe impact assessment method was used. Results and discussion In the period 2012-2013, the studied sub-fleet featured a fuel use intensity of 835 L per landed tonne, which was 235 % higher than reported values for all tuna landings in the Pacific Ocean in 2009. Reasons for such underperformance may include inter-annual variations in tuna catchability and the fact that fuels are generally subsidised in Ecuador, and thus skippers perhaps do not apply sufficient fuel-saving strategies. The main contributors to impacts associated with tuna processing were the provision of tinplate cans (58.0 % of the ReCiPe single score) and fuel use by the fishery (22.6 %). Ecuadorian tuna products feature environmental impacts generally higher than those of other fish processing industries worldwide, yet lower than those of many alternative sources of fish and land animal protein.Conclusions Efforts to reduce environmental impacts of Ecuadorian tuna processing should focus on the fuel performance of the providing fleet, and on the container technology. Increased use of larger tinplate cans, aluminium cans, or other non-metal container technologies (e.g. pouches and retort cups) would decrease environmental impacts of tuna processing. The sources of relative inefficiency observed for the Ecuadorian tuna fleet should be thoroughly investigated. Possible solutions could involve applying fuel-saving strategies.

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Section: Life Cycle Impact Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 97%

Life cycle assessment of Ecuadorian processed tuna

Avadí

Bolaños²,

Sandoval³

et al. 2015

Int J Life Cycle Assess

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“…Regarding the former, Dobes (2016) applied a new diagnostic tool to study 57 companies in the Czech Republic, while Dubey et al (2016) examined the top management beliefs and participation of 167 Indian organizations. The latter literature examined 738 manufacturers of auto components in India (Dubey et al, 2018), a Finnish pulp and paper mill (Lehtoranta et al, 2011), and case studies that involved the production of canned tuna in sunflower oil and a frozen chicken snack in Thailand (Mungkung et al, 2012). In addition, the model for SCP evaluation in the supply chain was developed (Luthra et al, 2017;Mangla et al, 2017).…”

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A framework of sustainable consumption and production from the production perspective: Application to Thailand and Vietnam

Yagi

Kokubu

2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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In the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations (UN), goal 12 ("ensure sustainable consumption and production [SCP] patterns") has eight outcome targets (12.1-12.8) and three targets for the means of implementation (MoI) (12.a-12.c). This "SCP-via-SDGs" approach is a much narrower, specific concept based on historical agreements that range from the Stockholm conference (1972) to the 10-Year Framework of Programmes (10YFP) (2012-2022). Meanwhile, "the academic SCP" is a highly interdisciplinary and complex approach that pursues an answer to what sustainability is, and it has not explicitly provided the SCP-via-SDGs framework at present. Thus, this study proposes a five-by-five framework for the SCP-via-SDGs approach from the production perspective (i.e., for individual firms), following the literature on corporate environmental management. The five stages (I-V) consider environmental management systems (EMS; I. strategy and process) for target 12.4, environmental management accounting (EMA; II. accounting and disclosure) for 12.6, and environmental management control systems (EMCS; III. financial, IV. environmental, and V. overall performance) for 12.2. Meanwhile, the five factors (1-5) consider the baseline and material flow (MF) factors (total waste, hazardous waste, raw materials used, and recycled waste) for targets 12.3 and 12.5. As an application, this study surveyed non-financial listed firms in Vietnam and compared the results to a previous study on Thailand. The results show that the firms are more likely to be at stage III (financial performance of EMCS) in Thailand and stage I or II (EMS or EMA) in Vietnam, suggesting that each market requires its own SCP policies, depending on the economic growth of each.

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“…However, the full utility of LCA has been less understood and it did not really become mainstream. In 2008, the first projects on product carbon footprinting were conducted [26] followed by the development of the national guidelines and label for product carbon footprinting in 2009 [27], [28] . Product carbon footprint became quite well accepted by companies, especially those with export interests, due to the perceived market demand for this information.…”

Section: Lca Research At the National Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives on Life Cycle Assessment Application and Research in Thailand

Gheewala

Mungcharoen

2016

IJoLCAS

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been initiated in Thailand since the late 1990s with the first life cycle inventory (LCI) of the electricity grid mix and the offering of the first full graduate course. Since then it has come a long way through the development of the national LCI database and application in various research, industry as well as policy initiatives. LCA has been used extensively as an evaluation and decision tool in agri-food products, energy as well as many other sectors. Many graduate studies as well as research and industrial LCA projects have been performed. Related activities include the proliferation of carbon footprint labeling and application in green purchasing initiatives. Industry has been very actively participating in the carbon footprinting applications, some of them extending their interest to full LCAs for environmental performance evaluation and sustainability reporting. More recently, efforts have also been moving in the direction of looking at life cycle impact assessment methods from a Thailand perspective. Also, with interest in LCA from the policy making perspective, a capacity building effort has been initiated to train researchers in conducting LCA-related research on a sustained basis and ensure that Thailand keeps abreast of the international trends and discussions.

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Product carbon footprinting in Thailand: A step towards sustainable consumption and production?

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Life cycle assessment of Ecuadorian processed tuna

Life cycle assessment of Ecuadorian processed tuna

A framework of sustainable consumption and production from the production perspective: Application to Thailand and Vietnam

Perspectives on Life Cycle Assessment Application and Research in Thailand

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