Giving shape to sustainability

Giving shape to sustainability

Make environmental footprint management actionable

Blonk, a Mérieux NutriSciences Company, is a leading international expert in food system sustainability, inspiring and enabling the agri-food sector to give shape to sustainability. Blonk's purpose is to create a sustainable and healthy planet for current and future generations.

We support organizations understand their environmental impact in the agri-food value chain by offering advice and developing tailored data and software solutions based on the latest scientific developments and data. 

Team Blonk

Our growing team includes agri-food and sustainability experts, software engineers, and data and methodology specialists.

Blonk's work is centered around high-quality data and Life Cycle Assessment methodologies essential for a sustainable agri-food sector.

We provide independent and actionable insights via advice, facts & figures, and tailored data and software solutions. We do this based on the best available science, data, and standards and a transparent, reliable, hands-on approach.

Environmental Footprinting services

Product & company footprinting
Methodology & standard development
Data
solutions
Software
solutions
LCA & footprinting
training
Research
projects

Examples of our work

Consultancy

Environmental footprinting & LCA

Each product has an impact on the environment, such as CO2, land use and use of resources. Environmental footprinting, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Carbon Footprinting are methods to investigate the environmental impact of products and supply chains. These methods give insights in possible (environmental) improvements in the supply chain.

consultancy

Footprint reduction

Climate change being one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Society and businesses are looking for ways to define the contours of a sustainable world. Accordingly, more and more companies are joining programs to set sustainability targets. 

Sustainability Target Setting start with a complete analysis and reduction plan of GHG emissions of the entire value chain. A challenging task, which asks for profound knowledge of agri-food value chains, quantitative environmental analysis and acquires high-quality data.

Data solution

Agri-footprint

Advancing sustainability in the agri-food sector requires accurate and precise information. Blonk developed the Agri-footprint database to provide a thorough and consistent life cycle inventory (LCI) database for the agriculture and food sector. The database is widely used and implemented by the food industry, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) community, the scientific community, and governments worldwide.

capacity building

LCA and Footprint Training

At Blonk Consultants, our ultimate goal is to contribute to the creation of a truly sustainable food system, for now and for future generations. To speed up this transition as much as possible, we are keen to share our expert knowledge with others. 

We offer trainings and courses, also specifically designed for your organization - online or on location. 

Methodology & standard development

Environmental standards development

Measuring environmental sustainability can be a big challenge. Moreover, there exist many ways to calculate the environmental impact of a product or product value chain. Different companies use different methods and different background data. This makes it impossible to make fair comparisons between products for instance. It obstructs the way forward to create truly sustainable food systems. To tackle this challenge, we support industries and sectors to develop harmonized environmental calculation rules, based on the latest available international methodologies.

Blonk's distinctive value

Providing you with actionable insights in environmental impacts over the entire lifecycle of a product
  • International leader in Food System Sustainability

  • Pioneers in Environmental Footprint Management in the agri-food sector

  • Comprehensive solutions: consultancy, software and data

  • Rooted in Life Cycle Thinking approach

  • Supporting the entire Food System Value Chain 

How we can help you to give shape to sustainability

 

Our multidisciplinary team helps you make value chain footprint management actionable. We support you with your first Life Cycle Assessment research, build sustainability capacity within your organization and organize life cycle training for employees. We can also support you by creating technical infrastructure to automate LCAs or create tailor-made environmental calculation tools. We can go even further by connecting our tools with your organization's data management ecosystem, making environmental footprint management your business practice.

Together we can pave the road to a sustainable and healthy planet.

Environmental footprinting

Life Cycle Assessments and Carbon footprints

Environmental standards development

Harmonizing environmental calculation rules for sectors and industries

Sustainability Target Setting

Helping you set sustainability targets and reduce your GHG emissions

Sustainable diets

Research into futureproof diets that are both healthy and sustainable

Capacity building: training & courses

Knowledge transfer to accelerate sustainable development

Assignment placing / Secondment

Growing the sustainability capacity within your organization and making our experts part of your team

Tailor-made environmental calculation tools

Gaining insights into the environmental performance of your products

Sustainability software solutions

Tailor-made and ready-to-use solutions to evaluate the environmental impact of agri-food systems

Environmental databases

Development of reliable, qualitative environmental (LCA) databases, such as Agri-footprint

Environmental data development

Development of high-quality (LCA) environmental datasets for environmental analysis

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