Break-out session: Decarbonisation

A boy sitting on a boat moving through mangroves

Scope /

An increasing number of global retailers, brands, feed companies and shrimp producers have formulated targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. LCA methodologies are being used to quantify the footprint for many food products, including seafood, and provide a basis to identify measures. While seafood and farmed shrimp have a relatively positive carbon footprint versus red meat, the sector needs to understand the key drivers for GHG emissions related to farmed shrimp, to maintain this competitive edge.

During the session, we will discuss the methodologies and data which are currently available to help reduce emissions, and what else is needed to enable the sector to identify concrete measures, verify reductions and drive innovation that both reduces GHG emissions and makes sense for businesses.

Chair

/ Kristin Komives, PhD

Kristin is the Director of Programmes at ISEAL, which is a non-profit organisation that is a global reference on credible practice for sustainability standards and certification. Kristin began her career in academia here in the Netherlands, with teaching and research on issues related to environmental services, poverty alleviation, and research design. She has been at ISEAL since 2010, first leading Monitoring and Evaluationa at ISEAL, then leading the Impacts Programme where she supported the development of the Global Living Wage Coalition and the Living Income Community of Practice. In her current position as Director of Programmes at ISEAL, Kristin is leading the development of ISEAL’s work on climate. The goal of this work is to leverage the ISEAL Community of standards systems to help deliver solutions for measuring and reducing scope 3 emissions and to find innovation approaches to delivering greater benefits to small businesses and farmers whose actions enable progress on emissions reduction goals.