Part of the transition phase of the Single Market for Green product initiative of the DG Envi (EC) several pilots are being carred out to support the possible adoption of policies implementing the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). One of this polot is the Marine Fish PEF Category Rule development, which main aim is test the process for developing product- and sector-specific rules. The scope of the PEFCR Fish for human consumption is from marine fisheries and [...]
This unsual 2020 year, has brought an unsual LCA FOOD conference. The 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food has took place on 13th – 16th October 2020 in Berlin VIRTUALY. From 13 to 16th of Octiber 2020 a virtual conference has been carried out bringing together more than 400 participants. The International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food is the leading conference series on sustainability of food systems worldwide. Every second year [...]
Together with the Aquaculture Europe 2019 conference AQUAPEF project had thefirst face to face meeting with the identified stakeholders. This meeting was of great importance since we had time to discuss achieved milestones with relevant people from othe project, initiatives or associations.
25 and 26 of September 2019 all partners of AQUAPEF project join together in heraclion (Crete) into the first annual meeting. The obective of this meeting was to make a follow up to summairze main milestones achieved in 2019 and to plan the challenging 2020!! […]
On 25 May, Manolis Tsapakis (HCMR) and Saioa Ramos (AZTI) presented the main objectives and expected results of the LIFE AQUAPEF project at the annual meeting of the Medaid H2020 project organised in Chania (Crete). In the session, Manolis and Saioa explained the main environmental problems caused by Mediterranean aquaculture production and the importance of measuring the environmental impact of food products according to the new PEF methodology guidelines.
Last 10th of June, Saioa Ramos, coordinator of LIFE AQUAPEF project was invited to talk about the environmental impact of the mediterranean aquaculture production in the High Level Conference on MedFish4Ever organized by the General Fisheries Comission for the Mediterraneanof FAO. In the session Saioa explained main environmental problems caused by the mediterranean aquaculture production and the importance of measuring the environmental Footpront of food products according to the new guilines of the PEF methodology. [...]