How to increase sustainability in the Finnish wine supply chain? : Insights from a country of origin based greenhouse gas emissions analysis

Autor: Bodo Steiner, Stefano Ghinoi, Helena J. Ponstein
Přispěvatelé: Department of Economics and Management, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies (Urbaria), Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Management & Organizations For Sustainable Food Systems, Helsinki Inequality Initiative (INEQ)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
business.product_category
Strategy and Management
Supply chain
Wine
WATER FOOTPRINT
VINEYARDS
SENSITIVITY-ANALYSIS
SECTOR
010501 environmental sciences
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Agricultural economics
Scenario analysis
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
12. Responsible consumption
Life cycle assessment
Greenhouse gas emissions
Bottle
Life-cycle assessment
Supply chain management
1172 Environmental sciences
Finland
0505 law
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
2. Zero hunger
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
05 social sciences
CONSUMPTION
CARBON FOOTPRINT
LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT
13. Climate action
ANALYZING UNCERTAINTY
Greenhouse gas
RED WINE
Sustainability
050501 criminology
Carbon footprint
Business
Popis: As wine supply chains become increasingly globalized, sustainability issues take on ever greater importance. This is the first study to analyse the environmental sustainability aspect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a global wine supply chain perspective, covering just over 90% of Finland's wine imports. Lacking substantial domestic production capacity, virtually all wine consumed in Finland is imported. Finland is comparable to its Nordic neighbours, Sweden and Norway, in this respect. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was combined with sensitivity and scenario analyses to investigate GHG emissions implications from prospective policy changes. Our results spotlight differences related to wine production in the eight main wine producing countries for the Finnish market (Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, and the United States), related logistics, and all packaging types for wine used in Finland (glass bottle, Bag-in-Box, PET bottle, beverage carton, and pouch). We found an average value of 1.23 kg CO2e for 0.75 L wine consumed in Finland, ranging from 0.59 kg CO2e for French wine in a bag-in-box packaging to 1.92 kg CO2e for Australian wine in a glass bottle. After identifying the main GHG emission hotspots in the wine supply chain, our scenario analyses highlight the effects of reducing glass bottle weight, moving away from glass packaging toward bag-inbox, increasing bulk wine export volumes to Finland, and following the European Commission's Energy 2020 strategy which targets increasing energy efficiency by 20 percent.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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