Green-Score: o impacto ambiental dos produtos alimenticios
O Green Score é unha puntuación ambiental de A a E que facilita a comparación do impacto dos produtos alimenticios no medio ambiente.
Nota: Green-Score é o novo nome de Eco-Score desde finais de 2024.
- Why an environmental score?
- Que é a Green-Score?
- Como se calcula a Green-Score?
- The benchmark score: life cycle analysis (LCA) with data from the Agribalyse database
- Bonuses and penalties to refine the grading of each product
- An increased need for transparency to better measure and reduce environmental impacts
- Como ver a Green-Score dos produtos alimenticios?
- Scan products with the Open Food Facts app
- Compara a Green-Score dos produtos no sitio web Open Food Facts
- Como pode o Green-Score fomentar a mellora dos produtos e a redución dos seus impactos ambientais
- Como podemos obter máis información e como podemos axudarnos a desenvolver o Green-Score?
- Acknowledgments
- References
Why an environmental score?
More and more consumers are concerned about the impact of their food not only on their health, but also on the health of our planet. Thanks to the Nutri-Score, it is now very easy to take into account the nutritional quality of products when purchasing, but it is very difficult if not impossible to compare their environmental footprint.
It is urgent to provide consumers with clear information about this environmental footprint, so that they can easily and quickly compare it for several products. Isto é o que permite a cualificación ambiental Green-Score.
O Green-Score, unha ferramenta para unha alimentación máis sostible
O Green-Score axuda aos consumidores que desexan avanzar cara a unha dieta máis sostible, animándoos a:
- Eat less meat but of better quality
- Consume more organic products and products with quality labels
- Favor local and seasonal products, with little packaging
- Limit products containing problematic ingredients (endangered fish, unsustainable palm oil)
Que é a Green-Score?
A Green-Score está deseñada segundo un modelo similar á puntuación nutricional: é unha cualificación que vai de A a E e que resume 15 impactos ambientais. A puntuación Green-Score materialízase cun logotipo en forma de folla coloreada cunha letra que vai do A (impacto moi baixo) ao E (impacto moi alto).
O Green-Score conta co apoio dun consorcio de moitos actores comprometidos cunha mellor nutrición.
Como se calcula a Green-Score?
The benchmark score: life cycle analysis (LCA) with data from the Agribalyse database
For each product category, a benchmark score is established using data from the Agribalyse environmental database designed by ADEME and INRAE. These data correspond to the life cycle analysis (LCA) of the products.
Life cycle assessment (LCA)
Life cycle analysis is a standardized assessment method for carrying out a multi-stage environmental assessment and multi-criteria:
- 6 production steps: agriculture, processing, packaging, transportation, distribution and consumption
- 14 environmental impact indicators: climate change/carbon footprint, ozone layer depletion, ionizing radiation, land, water, and energy use; pollution of air and marine and fresh water (particles, acidification, eutrophication); and depletion of resources.
Bonuses and penalties to refine the grading of each product
In order to take into account certain impacts on the environment which are not covered well by the life cycle analysis (such as biodiversity) and the specificities of each product within the same category, the score of reference is modulated with bonuses and penalties:
Mode of production
A bonus is awarded to products that have an official label, a label or a certification that guarantees environmental benefits (organic, fair trade, HVE, Label Rouge, Bleu Blanc Cœur, MSC/ASC).
Orixe dos ingredientes
A bonus is awarded based on the origin of the ingredients. This bonus takes into account the impact on transportation and also the environmental policy of each producer's country.Endangered species
A penalty is given to products that contain ingredients that have significant negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, such as palm oil, the production of which is responsible for massive deforestation.
Empaquetado
A penalty is calculated to take into account the circularity of packaging (use of recycled raw material and recyclability) and overpacking.
An increased need for transparency to better measure and reduce environmental impacts
Para calcular con precisión a Green-Score, é necesario ter información que non está necesariamente especificada na embalaxe (como a orixe e a porcentaxe exacta de cada ingrediente) ou que raramente está dispoñible en forma utilizable (como unha lista de todos os compoñentes da embalaxe cos tipos precisos de plásticos utilizados).
Os valores medios úsanse cando esta información aínda non está dispoñible, pero agora facemos un chamamento a todos para que nos axuden a recompilar esta información, que será moi útil para o Green-Score, pero tamén para moitos outros usos.
- Manufacturers can send us their information directly through our free platform for producers.
- All citizens can help us gather and structure the information that is present on products or that can be deduced from them, such as information on packaging: Mission Emballages: a large-scale collaborative inventory of packaging for all food products (in French)
Como ver a Green-Score dos produtos alimenticios?
Scan products with the Open Food Facts app
A aplicación Open Food Facts permíteche obter rapidamente a Green-Score dos produtos: só tes que escanear o seu código de barras. If you have already installed the Open Food Facts app, please update it to get the new version!
O Green-Score está, ou estará pronto, dispoñible nas aplicacións dos socios de lanzamento. And Open Food Facts is a Wikipedia of foods that anyone can reuse freely and for free. As máis de 100 aplicacións que empregan a base de datos OFF tamén poderán mostrar a Green-Score calculada.
Compara a Green-Score dos produtos no sitio web Open Food Facts
O sitio web Open Food Facts permite que todo o mundo vexa e compare a Green-Score de máis de 750 000 produtos alimenticios vendidos en Francia. Os resultados de cada busca mostran a calidade nutricional co Nutri-Score, os alimentos ultraprocesados con NOVA e o impacto ambiental co Green-Score. A Green-Score estenderase a outros países en canto estea dispoñible un cálculo de Green-Score aplicable.
A Green-Score de comidas preparadas en Open Food Facts
Clasifica e explora produtos por Green-Score en Open Food Facts
E vexa dunha ollada a Green-Score dos produtos dunha categoría ou marca.
A Green-Score das comidas preparadas. Click to see the products for each grade on Open Food Facts.
Obtén os detalles do cálculo de Green-Score para todos os produtos
Para cada produto, unha ligazón permíteche mostrar os detalles completos do cálculo da puntuación Green-Score.
And if information is missing, anyone can add it: the manufacturer of the product but also all citizens committed to the climate, environmental protection and transparency.
Como pode o Green-Score fomentar a mellora dos produtos e a redución dos seus impactos ambientais
O Green-Score ten dúas pancas de acción:
- Co Green-Score, os consumidores poden tomar unha decisión máis informada tendo en conta o impacto ambiental dos produtos como criterio de elección.
- A Green-Score tamén anima aos fabricantes a mellorar os seus produtos para que acaden unha cualificación verde máis alta.
Que os fabricantes melloren a puntuación ecolóxica dos seus produtos é o obxectivo final, xa que beneficiará a todos os consumidores.
The energy rating of household appliances has thus profoundly transformed the market (try to find a fridge rated E, or even D or C!). And the democratization of Nutri-Score has also encouraged many manufacturers to improve the nutritional quality of their products to obtain a better rating (to the point that some French manufacturers even brag about it on bus stops, such as Brossard for its Savane cake).
To encourage product improvements, our platform for producers automatically analyzes data provided by manufacturers to identify avenues for improvement. The platform thus identifies all the products that would obtain a better Nutri-Score score with a slight change in composition (a reduction in salt of 5% for example).
En breve, a plataforma permitirá suxerir xeitos de reducir o impacto ecolóxico e obter unha mellor Green-Score (por exemplo, empregando un plástico máis reciclable para os envases ou substituíndo o aceite de palma por outro aceite).
Como podemos obter máis información e como podemos axudarnos a desenvolver o Green-Score?
Todo o mundo é benvido a axudarnos a crear máis transparencia, educar aos consumidores e fomentar a mellora dos produtos a través de Green-Score.
O Green-Score aínda é novo e, sen dúbida, pódese mellorar. Given the climate and environmental emergency, however, it seems important to us to make it available now.
Traballando xuntos, poderemos mellorar gradualmente o Green-Score, refinar a súa fórmula e recompilar os datos necesarios para o seu cálculo.
Your feedback, observations and suggestions will therefore be very valuable.
- If you are a journalist and want to know more, you can contact Pierre Slamich - pierre@openfoodfacts.org- +33 6 02 13 14 57
- Se es fabricante, podes enviarnos información sobre os teus produtos coa nosa plataforma gratuíta para produtorese obter o cálculo detallado de Green-Score para todos os teus produtos. For any questions: producers@openfoodfacts.org
- If you are a citizen, you can install the Open Food Facts app, create an account on the Open Food Facts website, join our community of engaged citizens and our Slack discussion space. For any questions: contact@openfoodfacts.org
Open Food Facts is a collaborative project supported by tens of thousands of volunteers and managed by a non-profit association with 3 employees. Open Food Facts is a collaborative project supported by tens of thousands of volunteers and managed by a non-profit association with 3 employees. Thank you! ❤️
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Thanks to the teams of ADEME, l'INRAE and all Agribalyse partners for the constitution of this unique environmental database and its publication in open data.
Grazas a todas as persoas que participaron na creación dun Green-Score común.
Thanks to the organizers and volunteers of Data For Good who greatly improved the artificial intelligence algorithms of Open Food Facts.
Grazas á Fundación AFNIC polo seu apoio á implementación do Green-Score en Open Food Facts.
Thanks to Santé publique France (Public Health France) for its crucial support for the development of the platform for producers.
And thank you to all the participants in the Open Food Facts project who for more than 8 years have been promoting food transparency to improve everyone's diet!
References
- Anuncio do lanzamento do Green-Score no blog Open Food Facts
- Open Food Facts App for iPhone on the App Store
- Open Food Facts App for Android on the Play Store
- A distribución das puntuacións Green-Score para os produtos no sitio web Open Food Facts
- Documentación detallada da metodoloxía e a fórmula para calcular o Green-Score. (in French)
- Agribalyse environmental base of ADEME and INRAE (in French)