Verso la transizione ecologica delle filiere industriali: l'esperienza di un'impresa locale nella compensazione delle emissioni

[Machine translation] OBJECTIVES: The ecological transition of industrial supply chains, one of the missions of the PNRR, wants to make the system sustainable and guarantee its competitiveness. Companies are therefore committed to adopting advanced measurement protocols and state of the art assessments to develop and implement their development. In this regard, the present study aims to examine the virtuous case of a local production company that launched a project in 2020 to offset the emissions of its manufacturing activity. The plant's climate footprint has been calculated and certified, in accordance with ISO 14064-1. To offset direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions, a reforestation project has been launched in areas owned by the Management Authority for Protected Areas of the Po Piemontese. In the areas concerned, which are also part of territorial redevelopment programs, more than 2000 species have been planted that are not intended for the production cycle, i.e. native and endangered tree and shrub species. This planting represents an important potential contribution to offsetting corporate emissions. METHODS: The Company has therefore launched a procedure for calculating the reductions commensurate with the estimated growth of the various species in relation to the duration of the project, considering only living biomass. In the absence of an official and certified procedure, the methodology developed as part of a project promoted by the Ministry for Ecological Transition of the Spanish Government was taken as a reference. This methodology falls within the framework of the IPCC guidelines and guidelines on good practices and complies with the United Nations Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. For each planted specimen, the estimated carbon dioxide removals at 40 years were calculated, and then applied to the entire project in relation to the number of specimens planted at the end of the reference period. Finally, only 20% of the calculated total removals were considered as effective absorption. EFFECTS: This procedure was submitted to a certifying body that validated the compensation project, allowing the inclusion of the contribution to the reduction of corporate emissions, contributing to the ecological transition of the supply chain under consideration, in accordance with the provisions of Mission 2 of the PNRR.