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Peel in case
of Climate
Emergency
Retouched banana tape from Jason on
the week commencing 11th Jan
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New Zealand’s H
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Bananas
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New Zealand’s Greenest Bananas
ING & PACKIN 2
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1 G Fairtrade prohibits over 120 toxic
chemicals used in fresh fruit
production, including the
Farmed sustainably in El Guabo, Ecuador Pesticide Action Network’s
using organic fertiliser and minimal ‘Dirty Dozen’. El Guabo
chemical inputs to protect the health of farmers use around 5-10%
plants, soil and the people living of the level of chemicals
around the farms. used on conventional
banana farms.
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emissions for every kilo of All where they are
Good Bananas from farms all shipped to NZ.
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the way to supermarkets are
off-set through permanent A N
rainforest regeneration and
protection in the Peruvian TR
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El Guabo.
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choose delicious
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All Good bananas.
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All Good Bananas
travel to NZ via
Panama. The transit
takes 18 to 20 days.
Every week
containers are
shipped directly to
Auckland and
Christchurch. 7
Every day
stores supporting
6 All Good like New
World & Pak’n Save
supermarkets and
T&G Fresh closely grocers including Farro,
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manage ripening and
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quality of the bananas and and Moore Wilson’s stock
ensure they get to the their shelves with fresh
supermarket in top condition. RIP IB All Good Bananas.
ENING & DISTR
Every All Good Banana cleans
up its carbon footprintsForest farmers in the Ecuadorian All Good always take care to under- We’re one of the first in the world to
Rainforest, where All Good stand and improve the impact of our do this and we’ve developed our own
Bananas are grown, can already business on the people and places methodology with the help of EKOS.
see the impact of the Climate Crisis we trade with. So, for the last year, It’s possible for every banana and
and with it the risk of drought, we’ve been working with our farmers all our other groceries to be Climate
tropical storms, increased plant in El Guabo, our partners Agrofair, Neutral — or better! Here are the
diseases and social displacement. who organise logistics and shipping, detailed steps we’ve taken, so others
Half of the world’s banana and our distributors T&G Fresh, to can make the commitment to ‘build
production is in peril. bring Kiwi’s Carbon Zero Bananas. back better’ with us.
All Good Banana’s Life-Cycle Stage Detail Carbon Footprint
Carbon Footprint CO2e/kg
Growing Cultivation and on-farm Fertiliser production and use, pesticide produc- 0.17 kg
& Packing packing stations tion and use, agricultural oils, fossil fuel use on
farm, N2O emission and fossil CO2 emissions
Packaging Packaging - cardboard boxes 0.08 kg
Shipping Ecuadorian transport Trucking from farms to the Port 0.02 kg
& Transport
Shipping Ecuador to NZ 0.25 kg
Transport and distribution in NZ 0.03 kg
Ripening Ripening Electricity and air-conditioning
& Distribution
Retail & consumption 0.10 kg
Total 0.649 kg
CERTIFICATION The calculations by CE Delft are er than for our non-organically grown
based on PAS 2050 / ISO 14067. bananas, mainly due to the assumed
We’re certified by EKOS, New Zea- These are the globally recognised higher use of nitrogen fertilisers for
land’s trusted Zero Carbon certifier. standards, set by the British Stand- our non-organically grown bananas.
EKOS also certifies the transport of ards Institute, for a carbon life-cycle
our Oat Milk. CE Delft assessed the rigour of these
assessment of a product.
studies and compared the processes
EKOS has certified All Good’s banan- with the actual processes used on our
as on the basis of Provisional Zero ON-FARM PRODUCTION banana farms in El Guabo to ensure
Carbon Product certification for the EMISSIONS they were a valid proxy. Due to Cov-
2021 calendar year. This means that id-19 we were not able to do detailed
we are fully certified as a Zero Carbon An average was taken of four peer-
assessments specific to our farms.
product, and that we will be increas- reviewed studies:
ing the data collection in order to Iriarte et al., 2014
improve the accuracy of the on-farm Roibás et al., 2016
TRANSPORT EMISSIONS
carbon measurements. Soil & More International B.V., 2010 Inland transport in Ecuador, shipping
Until this data collection is complete Svanes & Aronsson, 2013 from Ecuador to NZ, and transport in
All Good will be off-setting our on- New Zealand to retailers produces ap-
Values from the studies have been
farm carbon footprint to 130% of our proximately half of the emissions in
corrected for transport.
initial carbon footprint assessment. All Good’s banana supply chain. This
The main emissions from on-farm is mainly associated with energy use,
cultivation of bananas come from such as fuel consumption, electricity
ASSESSING ALL GOOD N2O emissions from fertilised and air-conditioning, with maritime
BANANA’S CARBON soils, the use of fuels in pumps and transportation making the largest
FOOTPRINT machinery, and the production of the contribution.
CE Delft was commissioned to assess fertilisers. The production of card-
For sea transport, the Clean Cargo
the carbon footprint of our bananas board boxes is the dominant contrib-
Working Group (CCWG) (BSR, 2015)
from the farm to consumption here in utor (80%) of carbon emissions in the
calculation method was used. The
NZ. CE Delft is a leading independ- banana packaging.
Clean Cargo Working Group also has
ent environmental research organisa- The on-farm carbon footprint of our CO₂ figures per trade lane for con-
tion based in the Netherlands. organically grown bananas is 21% low- tainer ships with reefers (BSR, 2016).
cedelft.euThe calculation method takes into Q&A
account an utilisation factor deter-
mined by the CCWG and a diversion What does Zero Carbon mean and the south of where our bananas are
factor. what is off-setting? farmed in Ecuador.
All Good, through T&G Fresh, ships Zero Carbon means that our banan- Not all off-setting is equal.
to both Tauranga and Lyttleton as have a net-zero carbon footprint We are using high quality credits for
weekly to limit truck transport within throughout their life-cycle from permanent forest protection from
NZ. Maritime shipping is the most growing to processing, transporting, certified sources - this is a more
carbon-efficient form of transport - far ripening and getting the bananas expensive and better option than
more efficient than road. We have home to our customers. cheaper renewable energy credits.
very conservatively assumed an av- The best way to achieve Zero Carbon The off-setting project administered
erage of 400km for transport within is by reducing our footprint through by Climate Partners is certified to the
NZ once the bananas have arrived, for improving our processes, then we off- Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).
distribution to retailers and so that set the carbon that remains. Off-set- Carbon credits are purchased and
you can get them home! ting is a way to negate our carbon reserved before the start of each year
emissions by funding an equivalent for forecast banana sales. Cancel-
REDUCING OUR CARBON carbon saving elsewhere, in our case lations (to ensure the credits aren’t
FOOTPRINT through protecting rainforest in Peru. used more than once) will be per-
We are beginning this journey. It is formed on the external registry within
We’re committed to reducing our
our goal to reduce our carbon foot- 1 month of the end of each year.
carbon footprint further. Although we
have limited influence over shipping print by in-setting within our farming EKOS checks the purchase of the
emissions from Ecuador to New communities in El Guabo, Ecuador. credits, the cancellations and the cal-
Zealand, together with our farmers El Guabo has begun projects to culation of the sales forecast annually
we can be focus on our on-farm reduce on-farm emissions which to verify our Zero Carbon certification.
emissions. include an organic fertiliser plant
to remove the use of any chemical Project Standard: Verified Carbon
These projects are already underway fertilisers, the recycling of all on-farm Standard (VCS) CCBS Gold LevelW
by our farmers in El Guabo: plastic, and the planting of 100,000
You can learn more about the Rain-
Organic fertilisers from permanent trees - these projects have
forest Protection Project in Madre De
El Guabo’s new bio-fermenta- not been included in our carbon foot-
Dios, Peru here https://eco-act.com/
tion plant to replace chemical print assessment for 2021.
project/madre-de-dios-amazon-for-
fertilisers What is the carbon footprint of a est-conservation-project/
bunch of All Good bananas?
Recycling of all on-farm plastic How can you trust us?
Use of solar power to power 1 kg of All Good Bananas has a
We use EKOS, Aotearoa’s trusted
packing stations carbon footprint of 0.649kg CO2e.
Zero Carbon certifier. They have as-
This is the equivalent of driving the
sessed the process we have followed,
average car about 2kms.
the studies of the on-farm banana
Where do we off-set our All Good emissions we have used, the transport
bananas? emissions profile analysed by CE
Delft, the volume of bananas we will
All Good is purchasing carbon credits be importing in 2021 and the off-set-
from Climate Partners managing ting project in Peru used to off-set our
permanent rainforest protection in emissions.
Madre De Dios, Peru. This is one of
the world’s most biodiverse habitats, EKOS will also be helping All Good
with numerous threatened plant and reduce its carbon footprint and im-
animal species, and indigenous tribes. prove its carbon measurements over
This rainforest is being threatened by the next few years.
large road construction projects be-
You can learn more about EKOS here
tween Brazil and Peru and illegal gold
mining. This pristine forest is to ekos.org.nz
REFERENCES:
FAO guide on the carbon footprint of Banan- Elbehri, A., Calberto, G., Staver, C., Hospido, Environment, 472, 1082–1088. https://doi.
as: www.fao.org/3/a-i6842e.pdf A., Roibas, L., Skully, D., … org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.072
Roibás, L., Elbehri, A., & Hospido, A. (2016). Bustamante., A. (2016). Ecuador’s ba- Information on CE Delft: https://www.
Carbon footprint along the Ecuadorian nana sector under climate change. Rome: cedelft.eu/
banana supply chain: Methodological im- FAO.
provements and calculation tool. Journal of Information on our carbon off-set project
Cleaner Production, 112, 2441–2451. Iriarte, A., Almeida, M. G., & Villalobos, P. in Peru: https://fpm.climatepartner.com/
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