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Climate Change and Global Warming
April 24-25, 2019 | Vancouver, Canada
ACCEPTED ABSTRACT JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-057
Cradle to grave life
cycle assessment of
Chardonnay white wine
Makram El Bachawati1 , Marisa Vieira 2 and
Marie-Louise Baboyan3
1University of Balamand, Lebanon
2PRe Sustainability, Netherlands
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
is an international tool that
evaluates the environmental
impacts of a product, service,
or process throughout its life
cycle. The aims of the current
cradle to grave LCA study are
to (1) Assess the environmental
impacts of the Chardonnay
white wine produced by
Château Ksara – Lebanon
(33.8265°N, 35.8926°E) from
grape production phase until
the end of life phase (recycling,
landfilling, or incineration
scenarios) through winemaking,
packaging, distribution and
use phases (2) Compare the
environmental footprint results
of the Chardonnay white wine
with those of the screening study
carried out in Europe. The Life
cycle inventory was modeled
using the SimaPro 8.5.2.0 analyst
multi-user software and the
Ecoinvent database (version3.3)
and the ILCD methodology was
selected as the life cycle impact
assessment method. Based on
the normalized and weighted
results and excluding the toxicity
related impacts, the most
relevant impact categories are
mineral, fossil use & resource
depletion, climate change,
ionizing radiation human health,
particulate matter, terrestrial
eutrophication and acidification
for a cumulative contribution of
85.10% of the total impact. The
grape production, packaging
& bottling and winemaking
life cycle stages are the ones
identified as “most relevant”
for a cumulative contribution of
86.03% of the total impact for
climate change impact category.
The findings of this research
are promising since they are
comparable to those of the
screening study carried out in
Europe. Furthermore, sensitivity
and uncertainty analyses
are performed to check the
robustness of the results.