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Climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States

Row of green sugar beet plants growing in a cultivated field, representing the production system studied in a consequential LCA.
Client
Cowboy Clean Fuels
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We conducted the climate footprint study and delivered a report and presentation.


Cowboy Clean Fuels aims to play a leading role in the energy transition by producing carbon-negative renewable natural gas at scale. The company has developed a new technology that combines Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) with Renewable Natural Gas (RNG).

Climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States

This project aimed at calculating the climate footprint of sugar beet cultivation in the United States, providing results at the country level as well as by state. The system boundaries were cradle-to-gate and included greenhouse-gas emissions in relation to inputs of agrochemicals, energy, direct and indirect land use change, storage in piling stations and transport to processing plants.

Process flow diagram of the climate footprint of US sugar beet cultivation, showing stages from cultivation through transport and piling to delivery at processing plants, with arrows indicating associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Ivan Muñoz, Branch Manager at 2-0 LCA
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Ivan Muñoz
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Ivan Muñoz, Branch Manager at 2-0 LCA

Ivan Muñoz

Ivan is our branch manager of our Barcelona office. He started working in life cycle assessment in 1998 and got his Ph.D. in environmental science in 2006 from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.  Ivan's areas of expertise include LCAs for ecodesign, solid waste management, water and wastewater treatment, agriculture and food production, including related tools like environmental risk assessment, life cycle costing and water footprinting. From 2009 to 2013 he worked in the UK for Unilever.

Contact for: LCA quality assurance and  Waste and recycling


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