«Key Findings
- Throughout its lifecycle, a typical product causes average total
carbon emissions at 6.3 times its own weight with substantial variation
within and across industry sectors. With the development of global product
LCA databases, this figure stands primed for substantiation.
- Our results confirm that a typical product’s upstream emissions (45%
of total) are on average twice as high as those from direct company
operations (23%). This confirms prior CDP Supply Chain results on a Scope
1 & 2 basis, however it is the first time the findings have been
verified on a per product basis.
- Downstream emissions comprise on average 32% of total value chain
emissions.
- This value chain breakdown varies by sector, showing that products
from different sectors vary not only in the magnitude of CI, but also
where in the value chain most emissions arise (hotspots)
- Higher portion of downstream emissions tend to be associated with
higher CI, revealing the unique role of downstream processes for identifying
and curbing high emissions.
- Companies’ achievements to reduce a product’s emissions vary widely depending on whether a company has reported a footprint’s breakdown to life cycle stages or just its total emissions, with an average 10.9% emission reduction for products with breakdowns versus 3.7% without».
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