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Carbon Footprints and Food Systems - Do Current Accounting Methodologies Disadvantage Developing Countries?

2010

The report includes an analysis of current and emerging carbon labeling schemes and an assessment of available data, emissions factors and knowledge gaps of carbon footprinting methodologies. The report also analyzes carbon accounting methodologies for sugar and pineapple products from Zambia and Mauritius according to PAS 2050 guidelines, to illustrate whether these schemes accurately represent the production systems in developing countries. The report concludes with a series of recommendations on how carbon footprint labeling can be made more development-friendly.

Countries: Mauritius, Zambia, Non-country specific
Commodities: Pineapple, Sugar cane, Non-Commodity specific
Topics: Carbon footprint
Personal author: Paul Brenton, Gareth Edwards-Jones, Michael Friis Jensen
Publisher: World Bank (WB)
Type: Case illustration, Discussion
Format: Document
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