WP5: Environmental LCA and Nutrient Quality Assessment
Lead Partner: Trinity College Dublin
WP 5 aims to produce new inventory data on the environmental intensity of different legume production systems. Methods will incorporate Case Study data from WP2 and nutrition elements from WP3 using Life Cycle Analysis to derive sustainability indicators (WP8); environmental footprint will be related to costs in growing, manufacture and purchase. Outputs are relevant to the EU’s ‘Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life’, and ‘Healthy Ageing’ initiatives.
See also the for further information:
- Press release Plant protein can contribute to fight hunger and global warming
- Background information and data for the TRUE press release “Plant protein can contribute to fight hunger and global warming” from 13.10.2017
- Interview with Dr. David Styles
- Blogpost: Insight to legume value chain sustainability - TRUE enlightenment through collaboration in Edinburgh
Objectives
Task 5.1
Produce a practical report outlining the Life Cycle Analysis methodology to be used in TRUE
Task 5.2
Using Attributional Life Cycle Analysis to assess the environmental footprints of legume products, benchmarked against conventional alternatives
Task 5.3
Assess a range of European diets in terms of environmental burden and nutrient quality. Food choices will be scored according to both decreasing environmental impact and increasing health
Task 5.4
Assess how increasing the proportion of legumes and legume products in a range of European diets may increase the beneficial nutrient content of diet/food choice but decrease their environmental impact
Task 5.5
Calculate the combined environmental, health and purchase costs of diet/food choices and assess the affordability and environmental sustainability of legume-based diets
Deliverables
D5.1
D5.2
Summary leaflet of Attributional LCA
D5.3
D5.4
Consequential LCA summary
D5.5
European diets environmental impact & nutrition
D5.6
Environment and nutri-economic assessments of European diets
TRansition paths to sUstainable legume-based systems in Europe (TRUE) has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 727973
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