From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Cause, conseguenze e strategie di mitigazione Proponiamo il primo di una serie di articoli in cui affronteremo l’attuale problema dei mutamenti climatici. Presentiamo il documento redatto, votato e pubblicato dall’Ipcc - Comitato intergovernativo sui cambiamenti climatici - che illustra la sintesi delle ricerche svolte su questo tema rilevante.

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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.

Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact can vary 50-fold among producers of the same product, creating substantial mitigation opportunities. However, mitigation is complicated by trade-offs, multiple ways for producers to achieve low impacts, and interactions throughout the supply chain. Producers have limits on how far they can reduce impacts. Most strikingly, impacts of the lowest-impact animal products typically exceed those of vegetable substitutes, providing new evidence for the importance of dietary change. Cumulatively, our findings support an approach where producers monitor their own impacts, flexibly meet environmental targets by choosing from multiple practices, and communicate their impacts to consumers.

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Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

Climate Change 1995 is a scientific assessment that was generated by more than 1 000 contributors from over 50 nations. It was jointly co-ordinated through two international agencies; the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. The assessment was completed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) with a primary aim of reviewing the current state of knowledge concerning the impacts of climate change on physical and ecological systems, human health, and socioeconomic factors. The second aim was to review the available information on the technical and economic feasibility of the potential mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Climate Change 1995

Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories

This paper presents the results of Australian research that explored the role of packaging in minimizing food waste in the supply chain. The economic, social and environmental costs of food waste h ...

Packaging's Role in Minimizing Food Loss and Waste Across the Supply Chain

The influence of packaging attributes on consumer behaviour in food-packaging life cycle assessment studies - a neglected topic

Community concerns about the environmental impacts of packaging have prompted governments to introduce policies and regulations which impose eco-taxes or deposit-return systems, require companies to take-back and recover their packaging, or promote voluntary product stewardship programmes. Until recently these programmes have focused almost exclusively on consumer (retail) packaging, but increasingly companies are starting to address the environmental impacts of industrial packaging. This is being driven as much by regulation as it is by the need to reduce costs and increase efficiency in supply chains. This paper argues that environmental innovation in industrial packaging systems requires a cooperative supply chain approach to ensure that environmental and commercial costs are reduced and efficiencies optimized for the chain as a whole. This is based on a review of the literature and an industrial packaging supply chain research and demonstration programme conducted between 2003 and 2005 in Australia.

Environmental innovation in industrial packaging: a supply chain approach

1. Life Cycle Assessment: Origins, principles and context 2. The development of life cycle assessment methods and applications 3. Life cycle assessment in practice 4. Life cycle assessment as decision support - A systemic critique 5. The Australian environment - Impact assessment in a sunburnt country 6. Life cycle assessment and waste management 7. Life cycle assessment: Applications in the built environment 8. Will the well run dry? Developments in water resource planning and impact assessment 9. LCA and agriculture: challenges and prospects 10. Climate change responses: Carbon offsets, biofuels and the LCA contribution 11. Accelerating LCA uptake: Life Cycle Management and 'quick' LCA tools 12. Prospects for LCA development and practice in the quest for sustainable consumption.

Karli Verghese

Papers

Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories

Packaging's Role in Minimizing Food Loss and Waste Across the Supply Chain

The influence of packaging attributes on consumer behaviour in food-packaging life cycle assessment studies - a neglected topic

Environmental innovation in industrial packaging: a supply chain approach

Life Cycle Assessment: Principles, Practice and Prospects