NESCAFS COMMITMENT

TO SUSTAINABILITY
Creating Shared Value (CSV) is the basic way
we do business, which states that in order to
create long-term value for shareholders, we End-of-life Farming

need to create value for society.

We apply a product life cycle approach

Use Manufacturing
involving our partners from farm to
consumer in order to minimise the
environmental impact of our products and
activities.
Distribution Packaging

Our aim at all stages of the cycle is to use

natural resources efficiently, to favour the use of
sustainably-managed renewable resources and to
target zero waste.

THE WHO, WHEN, HOW OF THE STUDY

A study
made by
Results that count.Advice that
transforms. Innovation that inspires.
Thats Quantis.
Quantis is a global leader in
sustainability and Life Cycle
Assessment (LCA) services and
consulting. Quantis is specialised
in supporting companies as they
measure, understand and manage
the environmental impacts of their
products and operations. Fueled
by its close ties with the scientific
community and its strong track
record with clients, Quantis has
proven experience in transforming
sustainability metrics into business
strategies and operational action
plans.
Quantis has offices in Switzerland,
Germany, France, the US.
Following the European Commission Product
Environmental Footprint guidelines
The European Commission
proposed EU-wide methods to
measure the life cycle environ-
mental performance of products
and organisations, and is encou-
raging Member States and the
private sector to take them up.
The methods were published in
the Communication Building the
Single Market for Green Products
on the use of common methods to
measure and communicate the life
cycle environmental performance
of products and organisations.
Product Environmental Footprint
(PEF) and Organisation Environ-
mental Footprint (OEF) are LCA
based methods to calculate the
environmental performance of a
product or of an organisation.
The European Commission has
launched a three-year pilot period
of the PEF and OEF through
an open call for volunteers.
The objectives of the pilot phase
are:
To set up and validate the
process of the develop-
ment of product group
specific rules (Product
Environmental Footprint
Category Rules PEFCRs)
To test different compliance
and verification systems
To test different business-
to-business and business-
to-consumer communica-
tion vehicles
 NESCAFS participation to PEF
In May 2014, the European Commission
selected a pilot project aiming to develop
Product Environmental Footprint Cate-
gory Rules (PEFCR) for the coffee sector.
A first draft of the PEFCR was developed
by the Technical Secretariat and approved
by the Environmental Footprint Steering
Committee on 19 January 2016, thus resul-
ting in launching the PEF supporting studies.
The results presented here are taken from
the supporting study conducted by Quantis
Environmental indicators
chosen for NESCAF
The carbon footprint is expressed
in kg CO2 equivalent and measures
the emissions of greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions over the entire life
cycle of a cup of coffee.
The water footprint is measured
in cubic metres of water equivalent.
It considers the amount of water
used over the entire life cycle of a
cup of coffee, from the green coffee
growing through to the disposal of
the packaging after consumption.
The land use is measured in kg
carbon deficit and is related to use
(occupation) and conversion (trans-
formation) of land area by activities
such as agriculture, roads, housing,
mining, etc. Changes in quality over
a given area for a specific duration
as well as the extent of changes in
land properties are considered.
CONTACT
If you need to develop a similar tool for your market please contact :
Carole Dubois
Sustainability consultant - enhancing metrics value
carole.dubois@quantis-intl.com
on behalf of NESCAF France, for the product
Spray dried coffee NESCAF Slection in 200 g
glass jar.
This supporting study has been conducted in
compliance with the latest version of the draft
PEFCR Coffee (dated 19 January 2016).
Methodology
The product for which the supporting study was
conducted is a spray dried coffee (Nescaf Slection)
that is packed in a glass jar containing 200 g product. It is
manufactured in France (Dieppe factory),and sold on the
French market.
The functional unit considered in this study is Providing
one coffee based beverage serving of the characteris-
tics and size typically associated with the technology
assessed , i.e., 2 g of soluble coffee per 120 ml cup.
The system boundaries considered include the full life
cycle (cradle-to-grave) divided into the following life
cycle stages: coffee supply, packaging supply, manufac-
turing, overheads, distribution, use, and end-of-life.
Primary data were used for the packaging materials,
manufacturing, and a mix of primary and secondary
data was used for the coffee supply and the distribution.
The use stage and the end-of-life are based on secondary
data. Secondary data are coming mainly from the PEFCR
(version of 19 January 2016) and from European Commis-
sion documents providing default data for PEF / OEF
studies.
The study follows the January 19, 2016 version of the
PEFCR for coffee. The model has been developed using
the ecoinvent v2.2 database mainly and applying the
ILCD impact assessment method (v1.07).