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The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector
According to the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, putting in place policies that support sustainable development is imperative. The carbon neutrality concept introduced in 2002 is an efficient way to manage the risks and reduce the vulnerabilities in the land and the foo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122739 |
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author | Becker, Sylvain Bouzdine-Chameeva, Tatiana Jaegler, Anicia |
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description | According to the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, putting in place policies that support sustainable development is imperative. The carbon neutrality concept introduced in 2002 is an efficient way to manage the risks and reduce the vulnerabilities in the land and the food system. Given the pivotal role of sustainability for todays’ consumers, the low risk and high rewards of carbon neutral production could help businesses transform their entire sector. This article is among the first to show that the carbon neutrality principle offers advantages that far outweigh the costs of maintaining the status quo. The case study of a cognac producer in France suggests that prioritizing sustainable development by reducing emissions could be a beneficial solution, particularly in the high energy spirits industry. Specifically, implementing the three stages (and substages) of the carbon neutral methodology to calculate carbon footprint, this study provides evidence that distilling 1 hL of pure alcohol produces 0.9 tons of CO(2) emissions. Proposing actions to reduce emissions by 10%, and calculating the offset costs to evaluate the remaining emissions, the study also offers a practical implementation approach and discusses several potential legislative scenarios that might accelerate the transition to carbon neutral production output. |
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spelling | pubmed-73473182020-07-10 The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector Becker, Sylvain Bouzdine-Chameeva, Tatiana Jaegler, Anicia J Clean Prod Article According to the 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, putting in place policies that support sustainable development is imperative. The carbon neutrality concept introduced in 2002 is an efficient way to manage the risks and reduce the vulnerabilities in the land and the food system. Given the pivotal role of sustainability for todays’ consumers, the low risk and high rewards of carbon neutral production could help businesses transform their entire sector. This article is among the first to show that the carbon neutrality principle offers advantages that far outweigh the costs of maintaining the status quo. The case study of a cognac producer in France suggests that prioritizing sustainable development by reducing emissions could be a beneficial solution, particularly in the high energy spirits industry. Specifically, implementing the three stages (and substages) of the carbon neutral methodology to calculate carbon footprint, this study provides evidence that distilling 1 hL of pure alcohol produces 0.9 tons of CO(2) emissions. Proposing actions to reduce emissions by 10%, and calculating the offset costs to evaluate the remaining emissions, the study also offers a practical implementation approach and discusses several potential legislative scenarios that might accelerate the transition to carbon neutral production output. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11-20 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7347318/ /pubmed/32834566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122739 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Becker, Sylvain Bouzdine-Chameeva, Tatiana Jaegler, Anicia The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title | The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title_full | The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title_fullStr | The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title_full_unstemmed | The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title_short | The carbon neutrality principle: A case study in the French spirits sector |
title_sort | carbon neutrality principle: a case study in the french spirits sector |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347318/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32834566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.122739 |
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