Environmental impact of nutrition
On behalf of WWF-Germany, corsus has calculated the environmental impacts of food in Germany. The study “The taste of the future: Culinary compass for a healthy planet” is based on a life cycle assessment prepared by corsus and, in addition to climate protection and water consumption, also records the biodiversity impact of nutrition in Germany for the first time. The applied impact assessment method by Lindner et al. (2019) allows, due to its flexible structure in the possible level of detail, both the analysis of complex systems, such as the nutrition of a country, and the critical examination of smaller systems, such as the production of paper for a specific product. The results can be used to derive targets and measures for the protection of global biodiversity. corsus is committed to the transformation to sustainable food systems.
Biodiversity in life cycle assessments: BFN project
In Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), it has been difficult to estimate the impact of products and services on biodiversity. Although some methodological approaches already exist, their applicability has been scarce outside of research and science due to their complexity. The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) has therefore funded the method development project “Further development of life cycle assessments by integrating the biodiversity impacts of products” (FKZ 3511 82 3100) in order to be able to map biodiversity in life cycle assessments. With suitable approaches, especially for internationally operating companies, commercial enterprises can thus be better integrated into the protection of biodiversity.
