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Understanding our impact on the environment - Climate Change & CO2 into organic bananas Davila Colombia

In 2007, Grupo Daabon adopted a strategy to reduce CO2 emissions based on the calculation of greenhouse gas production and reduction of avoidable emissions offsetting those unavoidable. Sensitive to climate change becoming increasingly evident, Grupo Daabon continues to engage in the search for answers to this problem through continuous dialogue with various parties (stakeholders) and moving to zero emission of CO2 equivalent for the year 2012.

Measuring the "carbon footprint" of bananas ( measurement of the impact that the production of bananas has on the environment in terms of amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide-CO2)

In 2008, in collaboration with a customer of retail sales and the Mizuho Research Institute in Japan , Grupo DAABON became the first company to calculate and determine the total release of CO2 related to the production of its JAS certified bananas - from field to consumer. With this study, which considered all the internal transport of the product, maturation, packaging, distribution to stores and refrigeration equipment, has come to establish that each gram of banana is associated with the issuance of 0.63 g CO2.

In 2009, a pilot project to test the CO2 emissions related to the life cycle of organic bananas shipped from Colombia to the United Kingdom. This project, carried out according to standard PAS with UK2050 UK SGS as a verification body, does not take into account the internal transport, packaging, distribution to stores and refrigeration made in the United Kingdom and concluded that each gram of banana produces 0, 31 g of CO2.

Both studies consider the cultivation, packaging, waste, transport and disposal of waste production, but the issue related to other activities (mainly transport) or exchange land use. The latter is ruled out because the land of Grupo DAABON for decades has been used exclusively for agricultural use and for grazing animals and thus would not generate emissions associated with it.

Projects for the measurement of CO2 not only allow the consumer to make informed choices for their purchases, but they help the Grupo Daabon to control CO2 emissions related to the product and to identify areas with the highest potential to reduce CO2 and thus be able to offset the unavoidable emissions.