Almonds and Carbon Sequestration: What It Means for the Future

40 Pages·2015·2.5 MB·English

by  Jenny Konschak

Almonds and Carbon
Sequestration: What
it Means for the
Future
December 10, 2015
Gabriele Ludwig,
Almond Board

Speakers
Gabriele Ludwig, Almond Board (Moderator)

Alissa Kendall, UC Davis

Sara Kroopf, Environmental Defense Fund
Alissa Kendall,
University of California, Davis
Almonds and Carbon
Sequestration: What It
Means for the Future
Alissa Kendall, UC Davis ([email protected])
A Life Cycle
Assessment (LCA)
Perspective
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• A method for characterizing, quantifying, and interpreting environmental flows for a product or
service from a “cradle-to-grave” perspective. The goal is to understand system-wide effects.
• In our study we examine energy, greenhouse gas emissions, criteria pollutants, and direct
water use.
Materials, Energy and Resources IN
Raw Production
Material
Material (growing, Use End-of-Life
Acquisition Processing manufacturing, etc)
Recycle
= Transport.
Waste, Pollution, and Products OUT
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Scope of our LCA study: Nursery (“Cradle”) to First Port of Entry
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Scope of Completed Analysis: Processes included
Equipment Use
Fumigation and Water delivery Natural Gas,
Fertilizer and
Planting for irrigation Electricity
Agrochemical
Nursery
Pollination Production and
production
Tree Transport
Removal
Orchard removal Orchard Production Hulling & Next Steps
& orchard MAINTENANCE: Pruning, Shelling -Processors
establishment irrigation, tree replacement, Drying, -Wholesalers
Land preparation, pest management, etc. Co- -Exporters
pruning/training HARVEST: Years 3-25, full yield product -etc.
YEARS 0-3 potential at year 7 generatio
n
Combustion and industrial Biomass electric Combustion and
GHG emissions, field industrial GHG
power generation
emissions emissions
and other co-
products
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