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Planet-score rating system

Planet-score is an environmental rating system based on scientific databases and studies covering climate, biodiversity, toxicology, and resources.
It integrates the environmental impact from farm to fork, including ingredients, their origin, cultivation or rearing methods, packaging, and transportation. Planet-score addresses all relevant issues openly and rigorously, without taboos or greenwashing, and with a high standard of requirements.
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Read more about our methodology

Agriculture is the primary cause of planetary boundaries overshoot

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The agri-food system is both a major driver and a primary victim of pressures overshooting planetary boundaries. Planet-score provides a clear framework to guide the food sector on the agroecological transition path.
 
Planet-score reflects a credible scenario for the ecological transition of our eating habits, calibrated by experts in agronomy and environmental sciences.
 
It aligns with prospective European-scale scenarios, which demonstrate that a sustainable Planet-score supports this ecological transition in food and agriculture.
 
It transparently highlights the key environmental impacts of food, primarily stemming from agricultural production, but also from transport, packaging, processing, and other related stages. Food supply is not only desirable but also achievable.

Planet-score scoring system drives change in the agri-food system

Planet-score corresponds to a credible scenario of ecological transition of our eating habits, calibrated by experts in agronomy and environment. It is in line with the prospective scenarios on a European scale which show that the perspective of a sustainable food supply is not only desirable, but also realistic.
 
Planet-score serves this ecological transition of food and agriculture. It shows in a transparent way the essential impacts of food, mainly due to agricultural production, but also to transport, packaging, processing, etc.
 
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Planet-score translate issues into assessment criteria to take into account consequences of food production

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Concretely, let's take the example of a product that is widely consumed in France: chicken

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A scientific and transparent scoring method, that goes beyond Carbon Accounting

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Carbon accounting is all the rage but it poses three problems. 

  • As a consumer you need to be able to value farming systems within the same category – carrot versus carrot. This will help you choose the best carrot. LCA methodologies will not give you results with this type of precision. 
  • Second there are serious problems in the LCA methodologies and parameters used to evaluate carbon footprint in living or renewable systems, such as textiles and food. 
  • Third and most important is the problem of carbon tunnel vision: looking at carbon only, independently of other key environmental concerns, can lead to outcomes that are NOT better for the environment. This can be detrimental to biodiversity, for example.

Planet-score adjusts for methodological flaws and gives a real ecological value under key and easily recognised headings.