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LCA Food 2012 in Saint Malo, France! - Manifestations et colloques ...

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PARALLEL SESSION 7A: CONSUMERS 8 th Int. Conference on <strong>LCA</strong> <strong>in</strong> the<br />

Agri-<strong>Food</strong> Sector, 1-4 Oct <strong>2012</strong><br />

watershed) at each life cycle stage weighted by the local water stress <strong>in</strong>dicator. Therefore this <strong>in</strong>dicator can<br />

be described as evaluat<strong>in</strong>g the amount of water consumed that is “<strong>in</strong> comp<strong>et</strong>ition with another user”.<br />

Figure 3. Nescafé® <strong>LCA</strong> Communication Tool, <strong>LCA</strong> results for water consumption (relative) <strong>in</strong>dicator.<br />

The utilised surface (relative) <strong>in</strong>dicator has a total score about 300 cm 2 /cup of coffee of utilised surface<br />

due almost exclusively to coffee plantations, as seen <strong>in</strong> Figure 4 below. This <strong>in</strong>dicator represents the amount<br />

of surface used weighted by its specific pressure on biodiversity: lower the pressure on biodiversity lower the<br />

<strong>in</strong>dicator will be.<br />

Figure 4. Nescafé® <strong>LCA</strong> Communication Tool, <strong>LCA</strong> results for utilised surface (relative) <strong>in</strong>dicator.<br />

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