Technical Support B4B+ 13th of July 2021

Technical Support B4B+

13th of July 2021

 To ask a question:

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Questions

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 16:00 – 16:10: Benchmarks & global averages

 16:10 – 16-20: Static/Dynamic

 16:20 – 16:30: Input files

 16:30 – 16:40: Finance/EXIOBASE

 16:40 – 16:50: Combination

 17:00 – 17:10: Results

 17:10 – 17:20: Version 1.2.1 & update

 17:20 – 17:30: Remaining questions

Agenda

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 Teams: Forum mainly so that the users of the GBS can interact with each others. Contact us if you want to be added to this forum

• General

• Level 1 trainees

• Level 2 trainees

 Tickets : Ticket system to report bugs is being finalised For the time being: [email protected]. Please don’t send questions for the technical support webinar to team members and make sure to

provide enough information (Context, input files, outputs, error log, working branch)

 Technical support webinar

• Next one: go to Menti.com & enter the code 1121 9782

• You can ask for one to one time before or after the webinar to ask confidential questions

Reminder : B4B+ Support

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Benchmark & global averages

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Q: Do you confirm that those values are Scope 1?

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No dynamic loss from 2030: the slope of the global MSA over time should be >0

Can beScope 1 or all Scopes

according to the companies’ and politics’ ambition.

Global yearly dynamic biodiversity loss (MSA.km²) Global EXIOBASE turnover

Scope 1 figure: computed from worldwide figures so all Scopes 1 are covered

The maximum biodiversity loss not to cross this threshold is 28% MSA and it is divided by the overall turnover considering that all companies would have the same right of biodiversity loss (EXIOBASE)

 Scope 1 figure

Static/Dynamic

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Q: Could you remind how to aggregate static and dynamic impacts? What is the time scale considered in the calculation of static impacts?

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The MSAppb expresses terrestrial and aquatic impacts as a fraction of the total surface area of the ecosystem to allow aggregation

130 million km² 11 million km²

MSA parts per billion: expresses impacts as a fraction of the surface area of respectively terrestrial or aquatic

ecosystems

MSAppb

Part per billion (ppb): 1 ppb corresponds to one billionth of the surface

It can be used for intensities also, e.g. to express MSA.m²/kEUR in MSAppb/bEUR

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10 or ∶ Respective areas of terrestrial and

aquatic ecosystems

1 MSAppb = 0.13 MSA.km² 1 MSAppb = 0.011 MSA.km²

Q: Could you remind how to aggregate static and dynamic impacts? What is the time scale considered in the calculation of static impacts?

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Impacts of the company

1 MSA.km² 10 MSA.km²

8 MSAppb 46 MSAppb

Static Dynamic

100 MSA.km²

Static Dynamic

0.5 MSA.km²

800 MSAppb 920 MSAppb

Static Dynamic

54 MSAppb 1720 MSAppb

Impacts in MSA.km²

Not comparable Cannot be summed

Impacts in MSAppb

Comparable

Terrestrial and aquatic can be summed

130 million km² 11 million km²

Q: Could you remind how to aggregate static and dynamic impacts? What is the time scale considered in the calculation of static impacts?

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Hypothesis: linear restoration curve over 50 years

 Dividing static impacts by 50 allows to compare them with dynamic impacts

Used essentially by financial institutions who are eager to have single indicators to manage their portfolios

Q: Could you remind how to aggregate static and dynamic impacts? What is the time scale considered in the calculation of static impacts?

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Impacts of the company

1 MSA.km² 10 MSA.km²

8 MSAppb 46 MSAppb

Static Dynamic

100 MSA.km²

Static Dynamic

0.5 MSA.km²

800 MSAppb 920 MSAppb

Static Dynamic

54 MSAppb 1720 MSAppb

Impacts in MSA.km²

Not comparable Cannot be summed

Impacts in MSAppb

Comparable

Terrestrial and aquatic can be summed

130 million km² 11 million km²

Impacts in MSAppb*

Comparable

Static and dynamic can be summed

34 MSAppb* 54 MSAppb*

88 MSAppb*

Q: Could you remind why the impacts of Climate change are not considered in the static impact?

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 Past GHG emissions : static impact – some impacts still occur today

 Global : all the footprint can’t be assigned

 Data limitation : all the historical emissions are necessary

Data input

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Input files

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Pressures

Land-use

Eutrophication:

P & N concentration

Commodities inventories Emissions, water inventories

Crops Mining Wood

logs Livestock Oil & Gas Products

(v. 1.2.0-beta)

GHG

emissions Eutrophication:

N & P emissions

Hydrological disturbance

Ecotoxicity Financial

information Organizational

information

Required

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3

.. Order of preference in terms of data quality tiers

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 If a recycled material exists in the PEF database, it could be taken into account. For now we have not used the

whole PEF database to build the impact factors, it is under construction. Concretely it can be inputted in the Product file.

 Otherwise, if you have underneath data from a LCA paper or other study about waste treatment processes and recycled materials: these data can be inputted in the pressure files (LU, CC, HD_water, FE, X, etc.) or

commodities files.

Q: How do you account for waste? How do you input recycled material in the GBS?

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Q: In which file do you account for transformed products, such as drinks, transformed food?

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 If such items exist in PEF or Agribalyse, it can be taken into account in the Product file in theory. The product impact factors database is under construction and will expand.

 Otherwise if underneath data about pressures on

biodiversity or raw materials input are available, it can be taken into account with pressure and commo files. A purchase amount (monetary) can also be taken into account with the EXIOBASE industry “Manufacture of beverages” for example.

Q: in order to do a long term projection, where we try to variate the land use to reach NNL. However LU doesn’t change when we select « Land use over 1 year ». Why is that?

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“Calculate the land use impacts based only one year” means that the

computation takes into account only LU data from the “Stage 1”. To computed dynamic impacts: impact factors from the terrestrial module of the GBS

(MSA.km²/km² per country) will be used.

Q: Could you explain why LU « Woody biofuels » and

« extensive cropland » have different dynamic impacts?

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 If you chose the parameter :

Only “Stage 1” data are used. Dynamic impact factors in MSA.km²/km² per country are used, and they are specific per land use type.

 Terrestrial GBS review report: link

 Ideally for such questions, an example file + which version of GBS, which parameters you chose in the Generic-assessment are needed

Financial/EXIOBASE

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 Industries from the EXIOBASE classification are a bit different from the NACE classification.

 You’ll find through the following links the

correspondences between the different classifications:

• EXIOBASE – NACE rev 1.1

• EXIOBASE – NACE rev 2

Q: why are some industry categories from NACE 1.1 not available in the financial input file?

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Q: where does the static or dynamic impact, ie. for the construction industry, comes from, when based on financial data?

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 When using only Financial data, impacts are based on the environmental extensions, ie material consumed or emissions generated.

 The static impact of Construction (45) is therefore based indeed on the extraction of materials and Ecotoxic substances emissions

Q: why is there for some Sectors an impact in S1 and S2, only for CC and X ?

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 Indeed, in a lot of cases, for Scope 1 and Scope 2, there are only data for X and CC. This is partly due to EXIOBASE data.

 For Scope 2, we’re in the process of creating a new module: Energy module

 As a reminder, it is best to refine the evaluation with pressure & commodities inputs.

 This is also due to EXIOBASE data. The only ecotoxic substances available in the database are metallic

elements.

 In the Ecotoxicity input file, you can however enter more substances

 In the appendix of the benchmark factsheet, a study has been made using EPA data on chemical substances

releases in the United States in 2019, for the chemical sector.

Q: p41 of the benchmarks’ factsheets appendix, it’s written that ecotoxic substances are limited to metallic elements emissions from fossil fuels combustion. Why?

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Combination

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Understanding how impacts of various data sources are combined

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1) Impacts computed with the GBS are displayed per…

Company Group 1

Realm Terrestrial, Aquatic

Scope Scope 1, Scope 2, Tier 1 of upstream, Upstream excluding tier 1

Acc. category Static, Dynamic

Commodity Crops, Fodder crops, Mining, Oil & Gas, Woodlogs, Grass, Livestock

Pressure CC, LU, E, F, N, LUR, LUW, WC, HDwater, HDcc, FE, X

3) 100% of each impact bucket {Company, Group 1, Realm, Scope, Acc. category, Commodity, Pressure} calculated with lower quality data is replaced by the one calculated with better quality data

2) Order of preferences according to data source

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Q: if I have purchase Scope 3 financial inputs, but no info for Scope 3 pressures or commo, will it be

replaced by other commo or pressures ie for Scope 1?

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 Scope 1 data will never replace Scope 3 data, since replacement is made by {Company, Group 1, Realm, Scope, Acc. category, Commodity, Pressure}

Outputs

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Q: Why is CC and X accounted separately in the results?

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Ecotoxicity (X): high levels of uncertainty in the data

Climate change (CC): significant weight and already taken into account in the sustainable development policy of the companies

 The dependency scores are based on turnover data. The results are available:

• Results.xlsx: in the tabs «

dependencies_Group_1 », at the group_1 level, and

« dependencies », at the business level.

• Generic-assessment.html: tab 1.2. Ecosystem service dependencies

Q: How can I access the dependency score results ?

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Version 1.2.1

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 Version 1.2.1 (2021-07-12)

• Removes Natural aggregate & Quartz Sand due to problematic impact factors. Please use perlite instead.

• Removes Natural aggregates & Quartz Sand from the computation of Products Impact factors from PEF data, leading to a reduction of 90% of the Impact factors for spatial pressures

• Added 7 new products, including apple juice and liquefied sugar cane

• Updates the input files. Previous input files are still compatible.

• Adds the possibility to feed in the GBS impacts in MSAkm2.

Changelogs

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Understanding how impacts of various data sources are combined

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1) Impacts computed with the GBS are displayed per…

Company Group 1

Realm Terrestrial, Aquatic

Scope Scope 1, Scope 2, Tier 1 of upstream, Upstream excluding tier 1

Acc. category Static, Dynamic

Commodity Crops, Fodder crops, Mining, Oil & Gas, Woodlogs, Grass, Livestock

Pressure CC, LU, E, F, N, LUR, LUW, WC, HDwater, HDcc, FE, X

3) 100% of each impact bucket {Company, Group 1, Realm, Scope, Acc. category, Commodity, Pressure} calculated with lower quality data is replaced by the one calculated with better quality data

2) Order of preferences according to data source

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 Benchmark factsheets:

• Precisions in the technical appendix:

• Agrifood factsheet (comments on the platform possible)

• Chemical factsheet (comments by gbs@cdc- biodiversite.fr)

 List of data inputs available page 36-37 of GBS publication

 Data collection guidelines

Content for additional questions during the webinar:

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Antoine Cadi

Directeur Recherche et Innovation Mail:

[email protected] Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 16 Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 63 18 00

Joshua Berger

Chef du département Empreinte Biodiversité

Mail:

[email protected] Tél. : +33 (0)1 80 40 15 41 Mobile : +33 (0) 6 21 86 16 81

 When a new version of the tool is published, it will be available via a new branch.

How to get the lastest version of the tool (1/2)

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• Choose master if you want to always work on the most

recent version of the tool.

– Make sure you fetch & pull when a new version is available.

• You can also select a specific version if you want your results to remain the same (for

example during a BFA)

When you switch branch, Github desktop will

sometimes ask what to do with the changes that are on your current branch:

• Leave your changes on your current branch

In RStudio, in the

GBStoolbox project: Build / Install and restart

How to get the lastest version of the tool (2/2)

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