POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS OF THE NEW PAS 2050-1 HORT CARBON FOOTPRINT STANDARD (MARCH 2012) FOR ORCHARD MANAGEMENT

Carbon footprints were for apple, nectarine, orange and olive orchards using different approaches and indicate the need for a common standard.
The PAS 2050-1(2012) was released in 2012 as the standard for orchard systems viz. horticulture after a year of public consultation and expert meetings under the hospice of Productschap Tuinbouw in Amsterdam and BSI in London.
The PAS 2050-1(2012) was accompanied by five pilot projects in New Zealand, Spain, Netherlands, Germany and the UK, including fruit crops such as Citrus orange (for juice), strawberry, kiwi, pear and apple.
The PAS 2050-1 (2012) was developed as a “business to business” (B2B) or “from cradle to gate” standard, which implies a life cycle assessment (LCA) from the supply of the nursery tree to the farm gate, clarification of previously uncertain issues such as 1) provision for carbon sequestration, land use change (LUC) and an option for biogenic carbon (i.e., the carbon stored in the products); 2) allocation on a physical basis (gravimetrical or volumetric) rather than on an economic basis 3) number of harvest seasons required and inclusion of juvenile tree phase and 4) allocation of nitrogen fertiliser application as a major source of nitric oxides and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in orchard carbon footprints.
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X International Symposium on Integrating Canopy, Rootstock and Environmental Physiology in Orchard Systems

M.M. Blanke

biochar, climate change, global warming potential (GWP), greenhouse gas emission (GWG), life cycle assessment (LCA), primary energy use (PEU)

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2014.1058.14