FoodCarbonScope^™

FoodCarbonScope^™ is a web-based software tool for easy modeling and interactive analysis of life-cycle energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in food products. FoodCarbonScope can be used to quantify and optimize carbon footprints based on a full life-cycle modeling of food products.

FoodCarbonScope^™ is packaged with an extensive life cycle inventory (LCI) database covering a broad range of agricultural production in various parts of the world, regrigerated storage, processing and cooking, packaging, transport models, energy sources, and domestic/international emission factors (including accurate electricity emission factors by grid region and country). FoodCarbonScope^™ also provides automatic domestic/international transport distance calculations.

The modeling and analysis include these key features:

• Energy use and GHG emissions in agricultural production -- including all inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, electricity/fuel, and freight transport.
• Comprehensive accounting of non-energy GHG emissions at the farm level due to issues such as waste/manure management, crop residues, nitrogen fertilizer use, enteric fermentation, flooding of rice fields, etc.
• Carbon emissions and sequestration in agricultural soils due to land-use changes and agricultural practices at the farm level.
• Food processing and cooking, choosing from a full range of commercial equipment and processes.
• Packaging materials and options for raw food commodities and processed foods.
• Transport and refrigerated storage of raw and processed food products --including multi-modal domestic and international freight transport with or without refrigeration.
• Management of food waste -- including options such as composting and landfilling in different climate zones -- before and after cooking.
• Powerful hierarchical modeling capability, allowing users to efficiently construct and reuse custom model elements such as raw ingredient combinations, bulk processed foods, combined food processing steps, special packaging options, etc.

FoodCarbonScope^™ complies with applicable international standards (ISO 14040 series, PAS 2050) for life-cycle assessment and product carbon footprint analysis.

FoodCarbonScope^™ is available to subscribers at www.cleanmetrics.net/foodcarbonscope. Please Contact us to arrange a web-based demonstration and to discuss how we can personalize FoodCarbonScope^™ for your specific application.