‘A Common Carbon Footprint Approach for Dairy: The IDF Guide to Standard Lifecycle Assessment Methodology for the Dairy Sector’ was launched at the World Dairy Summit in Auckland, New Zealand on 5 November.
The Guide is based on the best available science and current international standards and will allow stakeholders in the dairy sector worldwide to produce consistent and comparable data on their carbon footprint. Establishing such robust measurement will enable effective management and reduction of GHG emissions in the sector.
To support and promote the Guide, the IDF has also launched a new website: http://www.IDF-LCA-guide.org. The Guide can be downloaded from this site, which also presents interviews with dairy-sector stakeholders on the importance of the Guide to their operations.
The Guide was developed under the leadership of the IDF Standing Committee on Environment (SCENV) in close collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (SAI Platform).
If you require more information on this initiative, please contact
Brian Lindsay, Project Leader - GHG Emissions / LCA Dairy, E-mail: blindsay @ saiplatform.org
or
Marylène Tucci, IDF Communications Officer, E-mail: MTucci @ fil-idf.org