Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets: Measuring and communicating environmental impacts in food systems: Towards reliable and widespread carbon footprints of food products

Koen Deconinck*, Saule Burkitbayeva, Hillena Thoms

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Abstract

This report discusses the “building blocks” needed to achieve reliable and widespread carbon footprints in food systems. The work forms part of the workstream on “measuring and communicating environmental impacts of food products” as scoped in the March 2023 Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets [TAD/CA/APM/WP(2023)4], under Expected Output Result 3.2.2.2.1 (ii) of the 2023-24 Programme of Work and Budget of the Committee for Agriculture.

The analysis in the report has greatly benefited from exchanges with experts in the OECD Food Chain Analysis Network (FCAN), in particular during a hybrid meeting in Paris (22-23 June 2023), virtual workshops on farm level calculation tools (8 November 2023), carbon footprint standards (5 March 2024), LCA databases (23 April 2024) and interoperability (28 May 2024), and a hybrid meeting in Paris (10-11 October 2024).

This report was prepared by Koen Deconinck of the OECD Secretariat, Saule Burkitbayeva of Australian National University, and Hillena Thoms of the European University Institute.

It was declassified in the November 2024 session of the Working Party on Agricultural Policies and Markets subject to minor edits, which have been incorporated in this version.

The Secretariat plans to publish this work as a report under the title “Measuring Carbon Footprints of Agri-Food Products: Eight Building Blocks”.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherOrganisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Commissioning bodyOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Number of pages97
Publication statusPublished - 11 Dec 2024

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