Carbon Footprint Product

Group 15

Nor Sazila Bt Kamaruddin ( 2012838076) Noorshilla Binti Suboh ( 2012677258) Nur Atika Binti Habik Saat (( 2012843664

1- Beijing July/2007- Sub-committee 7 is created, absorbing TC 207/WG 5-6 - Decision to explore potential for a CFP standard 2- Mexico City- January 28-30/2008- Confirmation of interest to work on - a) CFP - b) continue work on requirements for competency of GHG validators and verifiers WG1 (ISO 14066) and WG2 (ISO 14067) are created 3- Vienna April 23-4/2008- WG2 Meeting - Identify purposes, elements, market place interests etc. started shaping the NWIP along the lines of Part 1- quantification and Part 2- communication 4- Bogota June -July/2008- Outline of contents of part 1 and 2 for a NWIP. - The result of intense debate on role of the PCR in quantification. - Quantification along the ISO 14044 for one impact indicator. The NWIP, with detailed outline for the 2 parts was balloted and approved circa 11/ 2008 5- Kota Kinalabu- Jan 19-24/2009- Some experts helped put together a draft of the Working Draft with the intent to create a WD#1 at Cairo meeting 6- Cairo June July/2009- Very large number of comments, revision is simplified, focusing on to the major parts. 7- Vienna-October 19-21.

ISO/WD 14067-1 - Part 1: Qualification ISO/WD 14067-2 - Part 2: Communication

A carbon footprint measures the impact of human activities on the environment, and is typically measured in tons or pounds of carbon dioxide emitted in the entire life cycle of the product.

Electricity production in power plants Transports operations Industrial processes Agricultural processes

Refers to the calculation of the amount of GHG emissions associated with a company, event, activity, or the lifecycle of a good/service, Enables to ascertain and manage GHG emissions along the supply chain

Safeguards the survival of companies in the changing regulatory and economic business landscape
Furthers the understanding of the risks and opportunities in the supply chain

Allows to focus effort in response to new regulatory, shareholder and consumer pressures

CFP quantified using indicators such as the Global Warming Potential (GWP). As defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) GWP is an indicator that reflects the relative effect of a greenhouse gas in terms of climate change considering a fixed time period, such as 100 years (GWP100).

Which for one impact category (global warming) would make quantification a reliable and proven measurement. - Some issues to be fully resolved yet are getting in the way of a faster development
the role of product category rules in quantification,

details of the inventory phase, discussed in the scope offsets, discussion in limiting it to actions outside the product system as discrete projects or also including certain continuous action in operations part of the product system reasonability time period for use stage, treatment of delayed emissions, storage in the inventory, new proposal of considering 100-year period GHG emissions treated as a single release.

land use change- as proposed by some, based on ipcc (for countries, not products) methods create big problems in accuracy, estimation, costs and transparency when extrapolated to products. could bias analysis of cfp against agricultural based products by emphasis on land use versus other impacts on extraction of minerals, etc. missing allocation for recycling, as provided in ISO 14044 how to deal with delayed emissions and storage

The fitness of selected carbon calculators for measuring and communicating indirect GHG emissions from food consumption. Calculators were evaluated based on the scope of user behaviours accounted for, data sources, transparency of methods, consistency with prior data and effectiveness of communication. Meat and dairy consumption was appropriately highlighted as the primary diet-related contributor to emissions.

Opportunities exist to improve upon these tools, including: expanding the scope of behaviors included under calculations; improving communication, in part by emphasizing the ecological and public health cobenets of less emissions-intensive diets; and adopting more robust, transparent methodologies, particularly where calculators produce questionable emissions estimates.

Thank you ..