2024/01/01 by Antoine Giudicelli, Giudicelli, Antoine, Cécile Grémy‐Gros +14
Engineering · #Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
paper · pdf · doi:10.17180/ciag-2024-vol94-art02
The aim of the DOMECCO project (2019-2022) was to equip the Cognac sector's environmental management approach with life cycle analysis (LCA) tools and indicators. Following an analysis of needs, data and existing tools, two simplified calculation tools were developed. One was a pre-existing, Vit'LCA®, for viticulture and the other, DistCo'LCA, was developed ex nihilo for distillation. Two case studies were worked on, based on a field trial of soil management and on survey data at Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) level: vineyard soil management and distillation. Life cycle analyses were carried out for each case study, in order to characterize the impacts and contribute to the development of calculation tools. A participatory eco-design workshop was organised with the appellation stakeholders to redesign lowimpact herbicide-free soil maintenance on the basis of the LCA results, enabling them to discover theLCA and eco-design approach. At the end of the project, the sectorial eco-design levers have been identified, databases have been structured and fed at PDO level to carry out LCAs, and the LCA calculation tools are operational. However, some tools and indicators still need to be completed thanks to new research in order to provide better support for the sector.