In the chart below we can see how Agriculture Production, Packing and Transportation, have an impact on the production of roses in Ecuador, Kenya and Holland.
Fig. 3.2: Greenhouse gas emissions according to IPCC (2013) of the five different bunch of roses analysed.
According to the study made by ¨Life Cycle Assessment Cut Roses Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (MGB), Switzerland Fairtrade International Imprint Title: Life Cycle Assessment Cut Roses, made in July 2018, by the Authors: Martina Alig, Rolf Frischknecht¨.
In this study a total of five production systems were evaluated: Conventional roses from Ecuador, average and Fair trade roses from Kenya, conventional roses, and roses from optimized production in Holland, the agricultural production in the country of origin, the packaging of the roses and transport to Switzerland.
In the study they conclude that: ¨Greenhouse gas emissions from air transport of roses from overseas are significantly lower than those for heating the greenhouses in the Netherlands, even though the increased greenhouse effect of aircraft emissions is considered. Since the two parameters – energy demand for greenhouse heating, and air transport- completely dominate the results of this comparison. The comparison of rose production in heated greenhouses in other European countries, with unheated production in other East African countries are likely to be similar”.
Life Cycle Assessment Cut Roses Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund (MGB), Switzerland Fairtrade International Imprint Title Life Cycle Assessment Cut Roses – Scientific Figure on ResearchGate. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Greenhouse-gas-emissions-according-to-IPCC-2013-of-the-five-different-bunch-of-roses_fig2_331089969 [accessed 9 Oct, 2019]
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