Good day,
We are helping a company that grows tomatoes and other vegetables in greenhouses.
It’s not clear to me if they fall under FLAG conditions for SBTi.
Also, as they use a lot of gas for cogeneration (and subsidised by the Belgian government since the year nillies), not sure how the 7% short term could be met. Any ideas there are also welcome 
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Thanks in advance for your anwers !
Hi Jean-Louis,
Yes, these would fall under Scope 1 FLAG emissions for your client. Either you can collect primary data on Land-Management and Land-Use-change-relevant KPIs, or you apply a database Emission Factor for “Tomatoes” (or any other vegetable). In that case it’s important to split the EF into FLAG (LM and LUC) and non-FLAG. Furthermore, if your client does not process and package the vegetable, make sure to exclude those emissions from the non-FLAG portion of the EF as well. Free databases like Agribalyse will allow you to do that split and pick the part of the EF that is relevant for your activity.
On the gas consumption: They could consider switching to biogas (as an agri company, they may be able to provide their own fuel for the biogas congestor) or they could electrify and consume less gas or they could investigate if any efficiency measures can be applied (might give a few %)
Hope this helped!
Hi Luca, thanks for this ! I have the gas consumption data (so the main (99%) factor for CO2 emissions) but they use it to 1) heat their greenhouses 2) produce and sell electricity and 3) reuse CO2 for the greenhouse as well.
So I would add the heat to FLAG emissions and electricity to non FLAG, correct (and eventually substract the reuse of CO2 from the FLAG emissions)?
Biogas, I’ll ask if it’s feasible !
They already use e-boilers and try to upgrade their greenhouses, but especially that last one is very costly with very low extra efficiency.
Thanks again !