Agriculture & Agri-Food
Have you involved your agricultural suppliers in your carbon and biodiversity strategy?
Agricultural inputsMachinery & EquipmentAgricultural CooperativesAgri-Food IndustriesBeer, wine, and spiritsDistributors
Have you involved your agricultural suppliers in your carbon and biodiversity strategy?
A decarbonization platform for the food industry, providing fast-moving consumer goods companies with cross-functional tools to transform fragmented environmental data into drivers of operational and commercial performance.
Employee count
12,000 member farmers and 17,500 employees
Expertise
Discuss your challenges, priorities, and the right path forward for your organization with the Carbone 4 teams.
Employee count
85,500 employees, nearly 270 dairies and cheese factories
Location
Operating in about 50 countries
Expertise
Our expertise is based on an in-depth understanding of various agricultural sectors, production systems, value chains, and regional characteristics.
Growing environmental pressures—including more extreme weather events, strain on water resources, and the collapse of ecosystem services—are reducing agricultural yields, which are projected to fall by 3.6% in France by 2024 (1), threatening the stability of production and making it essential to adapt farming practices and production systems.
In light of the French National Low-Carbon Strategy’s (SNBC) requirement to double France’s carbon sinks by 2050, agriculture must transform its soils from net emitters to net carbon sinks (2). This regulatory constraint, coupled with the need for agricultural resources to decarbonize other sectors, is creating an unprecedented convergence: reinventing agricultural practices and models is becoming a key lever for ensuring the competitiveness and profitability of these sectors.
Inputs, equipment, agricultural production, packaging, distribution, and waste management: every link in the french food supply chain relies on fossil fuels, which account for 74% of the sector’s total energy consumption (3). This dependence exposes stakeholders to volatile costs and supply risks.
Assessment of the carbon footprint of the company, agricultural raw materials, and agri-food products across their entire life cycle (LCA)—raw materials, freight, processing, packaging, and storage.
Support in implementing emissions tracking software and developing an emissions reduction roadmap.
Training and provision of tools for procurement teams to integrate carbon considerations into procurement policies and supplier relationships in order to accelerate the decarbonization of the supply chain.
Assessment of your activities’ dependencies and impacts on biodiversity, water, and soil.
Development of an operational roadmap that includes concrete actions and monitoring indicators.
Ad hoc study? Expert analysis of your topics? Market media monitoring?
This collaborative effort brought together about 30 business unit staff members to incorporate emissions reduction, adaptation, water, and biodiversity, while ensuring the technical and economic feasibility of the actions.
The consulting engagement resulted in a plan ready for implementation, structured around seven areas of focus and 40 performance indicators, covering all environmental issues relevant to the group’s business segments.
This case study details a three-phase approach: team acculturation, a technical assessment of impacts on and dependencies on nature, and the identification of potential areas for action.
The project delivers concrete results, including a value chain map, an impact matrix, and a scoring tool to enable the Group to independently prioritize its key issues.
Training and awareness-raising sessions for all teams (operational staff, technical specialists, and management) on the challenges of decarbonizing the agri-food industry, current standards, and existing tools.
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