Confronting Climate Change: Benchmark Report 2022
The 2022 Confronting Climate Change (CCC) industry benchmark provides a meaningful platform for the South African fruit and wine industries.
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Confronting Climate Change 2022
The process builds on 2020 - 2021 datasets and provides a meaningful platform for the SA fruit and wine industries to improve their understanding of fossil fuel-based resources and to reduce emissions over time.
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About the Confronting Climate Change Report
The process builds on 2020 - 2021 datasets and provides a meaningful platform for the South African fruit and wine industries to improve their understanding of the use of fossil fuel-based resources and to reduce emissions over time.
The ten years combined season data (2011 – 2021) for wine grapes were used for the assessment and analysed based on the following business boundaries: farm, winery and distribution.
The farm and winery boundaries are presented in this report.
The CCC benchmark reports use combined season data from 2011 - 2021 to provide an industry specific CO₂e benchmark.
Users who calculate their carbon footprint using the CCC online carbon calculator have the option to submit their data for grading.
This grading is undertaken by the CCC technical team who work with the user to ensure that all data is correctly entered and accurately reflects the entity’s operations.
To ensure the quality and accuracy of the benchmark results, only graded datasets are included in the benchmark calculation.
The benchmark values are determined using the mean value of graded datasets in the CCC database.
Values falling beyond 1.5 times the standard deviation of the mean of the normally distributed dataset are considered outliers and are excluded from the benchmark calculation.
All results are shown in the internationally accepted format of kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per unit (kg CO₂e/kg fruit).
Please note that the carbon footprint between various fruit types or commodities should not be compared.
Different commodities are functionally different and require different inputs.
For example, more water might be needed by one commodity than another and therefore more electricity will be needed for the pumping of water.
For more information, please contact the CCC Initiative: www.climatefruitandwine.co.za.
From 2011 to 2021 the CCC database (incl. graded + ungraded data) has grown to cover 15 407 unique hectares of wine grape farms in South Africa. This represents 17% of the wine grape industry in the country.
CCC is proud to announce that we have launched a new carbon footprint label and website – www.carbonheroes.co.za – where our B-graded license holders are recognised for meticulously calculating their carbon footprint.
They are the Carbon Heroes of the South African Wine and Fruit Industry!
This opportunity is presented free of charge and provides recognition to all our farmers and/or businesses by being awarded with either a one year or three year label.
Disclaimer: The results shown in this report represent the approved data points of the CCC wine grape sample group representing combined data from the ten-year seasonal period of 2011-2021. In line with the leading international carbon foot-printing protocol of PAS 2050-1:2012, a three-year period is required to reflect seasonal and production variances.
The data range now covers the required three-year period, and therefore accounts for seasonal and production variances. However, the data range of the sample is not yet representative of the industry at large.
Due to this consideration, the results should NOT be distributed on behalf of or representing the South African wine grape industry. It is aimed to be used as an internal evaluation exercise for those South African producers and exporters wanting to compare their carbon footprint results with the CCC regional sample group averages.
This report has been compiled by Blue North Sustainability (Pty) Ltd. Author & design: Carina Wessels. Data analysis: Karlien Heyns. Reviewed: Anel Blignaut. For more information please contact the CCC Project Manager, Carina Wessels, at [email protected].
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