Consumer and retailer demand for sustainably grown floricultural products is growing. They would like to know what the environmental impact of a product is, throughout its life cycle. However, calculating a product footprint can be a complex process, especially if third-party data is not readily available. The Flori Footprint Tool allows you to calculate the footprint of your products at your own pace, step by step. While calculating, you will see the hotspots in all parts of your supply chain, from raw material extraction to production, distribution, use and waste disposal.
If you know where you stand, you can efficiently start improving your sustainability. In order to set priorities, you can create scenarios with substitute values so that you can focus your attention on factors that determine which investments yield the most. For example, you can substitute grey energy for green energy and see what this means for your footprint.
The Flori Footprint Tool is based on life cycle thinking. The FloriPEFCR (Flori Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules) are the European calculation rules for calculating environmental footprints in floriculture. With the FloriPEFCR we can calculate, compare and monitor the environmental impact of a cut flower or pot plant in Europe according to an independent calculation method.
The standard was approved by the European Commission in February 2024. The Flori Footprint Tool already complies with the first draft of the FloriPEFCR and contains the 16 impact categories. We are currently making the final adjustments for complete PEF-compliant calculations with the Flori Footprint Tool.
For over 10 years, we have been supporting businesses in the floriculture sector with LCA analyses. The Flori Footprint Tool is the result of this extensive experience and offers you a reliable solution for calculating the environmental impact of your products. The data you process in the Flori Footprint Tool is and remains yours. This data can only be shared with explicit permission.
The Flori Footprint Tool allows all parties in the floriculture chain to map the full life cycle of a product. Each business has its own specific processes. That is why the Flori Footprint Tool offers different environments:
Data can be shared between the portals, so that everyone can map their Scope 3 emissions. You can choose and give your consent to which businesses you want to share your data with.
With the Flori Footprint Tool, we want to offer businesses in the floriculture sector a low-threshold way to understand the environmental impact of their business and products. With the Flori Footprint Tool, there can be no reason for not starting to calculate an ecological footprint.
We believe that a climate-friendly floriculture sector is the future, by taking the footprint as a starting point to achieve that goal.
