We want to be a leading actor when it comes to sustainable meat production. And for us, transparency is key to achieving this. In everything we do. This comes to show in our life cycle assessment, where we are working to calculate the carbon footprint of our products throughout their life cycle.
Life cycle assessment, or LCA, is briefly put an assessment of a product’s lifecycle to calculate the carbon footprint that covers each stage of the product’s life.
In 2021 we developed our own model for life cycle assessments, and in the long run, we aim for a level of detail in the model that will enable us to calculate not only the carbon footprint per kg meat, but also the carbon footprint of specific products using data from suppliers, abattoirs, processing plants and logistics.
The core of the LCA model was developed in 2020/21 by external consultants and is under ongoing verification by independent third parties. And we continuously improve the underlying data to ensure that our calculations are up to date and aligned with international standards.
The below figure shows the extent of the data we use for LCA calculations. This includes collecting data at individual farm level to calculate the climate impact of our slaughter animals.