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September 2017

The Carbon Footprint Calculator for Fertilizing Products

What is the Carbon Footprint Calculator?

The Carbon Footprint Calculator for fertilizer products allows users to estimate the carbon footprint related their fertilizer production. The Calculator is open to everyone. Users are welcome to register via the registration form found on the login page.

The online Carbon Footprint Calculator (http://app.calcfert.com) is a standalone module used to calculate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated during the production of fertilizers. By selecting basic assumptions and filling in own values related to raw materials, transportation, energy, plant specifications and product specific data, the user calculates the total carbon footprint, expressed as ‘ton CO2-equivalents / ton product’. This estimate includes both direct and indirect emissions from energy supply.

As an important feature, the online calculator also allows you to compare your results against regional references, i.e. Europe, Russia, China, North America, Latin America, Oceania, Asia, Middle East and Africa for some of the key products such as Urea, AN, UAN, and CAN, but also for MAP, DAP, TSP, and SSP. To assure the quality of the tool, the calculator has been verified and validated by an independent third party DNV GL.

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How does it work?

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Select the fertilizers for which you want to calculcate the GHG emissions.

STEP 2

Select the assumptions and fill in your values under the ‘Energy sources’ and ‘components’ sections

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STEP 3

In the ‘Summary’ section, the results are summarized in all the graphs, results and input values can be saved as pdf and printed.

Summary section:

Results:

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The results of this calculator can be used as inputs for the calculation of the footprinty of food production, via Cool Farm Tool (www.coolfarmtool.org).

Certification Scheme As only accurate input data will provide reliable results, Fertilizers Europe has developed a Certification Scheme with Carbon Trust Advisory Limited.

To ensure that the calculator is correctly used, input data are accurately introduced.

Only certified footprints can be publically used and communicated for legal reporting, sustainability and corporate social responsibility reports, and/or for food chain reporting or communication purposes. Additionally, the certified footprints could serve as input for food production carbon footprint calculators such as the Cool Farm Tool.

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Fertilizers Europe represents the majority of nitrogen fertilizer producers in Europe and is recognized as the dedicated industry source of information on mineral fertilizers. The association communicates with a wide variety of institutions, legislators, stakeholders and members of the public who seek information on fertilizer technology and topics relating to today’s agricultural, environmental and economic challenges. The Fertilizers Europe website provides information on subjects of relevance to all those interested in fertilizers contribution to global food security.

Fertilizers Europe Avenue E. van Nieuwenhuyse 4/6 B-1160, Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 675 3550 Fax: +32 2 675 3961 main@fertilizerseurope.com

www.fertilizerseurope.com @FertilizersEurope Fertilizers Europe @FertilizersEuro

More information on the CFC is available in

International Fertiliser Society (IFS) Proceedings No. 751