Tiantai puts a carbon label QR code on yellow tea products, scanning the code to know the carbon reduction effect in the tea garden operation process
"'Tiantai Yellow Tea 'strip tea's carbon footprint throughout its life cycle is 0.73 kilograms of carbon dioxide emission equivalent." Scan the QR code of the first yellow tea product carbon label in street town of Tiantai County, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province. Rows of numbers and reports are presented in front of you, and the yellow tea carbon footprint information is visually visible.
Recently, the "Yellow Tea" carbon labeling project created by Street Town of Tiantai County and the Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Carbon Fixation and Emission Reduction has officially come to an end. The team has generated a unique carbon label digital passport for Tiantai Yellow Tea. You can scan it with your mobile phone to obtain detailed carbon footprint information of Tiantai Yellow Tea products anytime and anywhere.
What is a "carbon footprint" and "carbon label"? According to reports,"carbon footprint" measures the total amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases released during human activities or cumulatively emitted throughout the life cycle of products or services. It is the most important evaluation indicator in the field of carbon emissions at present. "Carbon label" is a symbol of the digitization of a commodity's carbon footprint.
It is reported that the Tiantai Yellow Tea Carbon Label comprehensively evaluates the carbon emissions of yellow tea during the production process, including all aspects of the life cycle such as tea garden operation and management, tea picking and processing, packaging, transportation, warehousing and distribution, and uses the form of carbon labeling. Display, make carbon emission sources transparent, and use the "digital passport"-QR code to visually present company and product profiles, carbon footprint evaluation methods, carbon footprint accounting, carbon footprint certification certificates, Carbon footprint traceability video Carbon footprint report in 6 aspects.
"Through carbon footprint and carbon labeling, we can reflect the independent carbon reduction effects of drug and fertilizer reduction and efficiency improvement, green biological prevention and control, and organic fertilizers replacing compound fertilizers in tea garden operations." Pang Qianhui, deputy mayor of Jiedou Town, Tiantai County, said that agricultural products with lower carbon footprints tend to be more safe and have less impact on the environment, achieving a win-win situation for low-carbon emission reduction and green development; at the same time, it can help tea gardens further seek opportunities to reduce carbon emissions in planting, operation and processing, and improve the safety and competitiveness of agricultural products.
Developing carbon footprint carbon labels is not the first time that Tiantai County has taken in terms of sustainable development. Prior to this, Tiantai County adopted GEP The (Ecosystem GDP) Accounting Decision Support Platform conducted an evaluation and decision-making deduction on the yellow tea planting project of Zhejiang Tiantai Jiuzhe Tea Industry Co., Ltd., combined with it to provide farmers who have withdrawn from the ecological red line for biodiversity protection to re-start businesses and employment opportunities. To the extent of contribution, Tiantai Rural Commercial Bank has provided a comprehensive credit of 10 million yuan in "Biodiversity Protection GEP Green Loan".
"The creation of the 'carbon label' of Tiantai Yellow Tea has cultivated new 'momentum' for development with a new 'engine'." Pang Qianhui explained that the "carbon label" of Tiantai Yellow Tea uses visual information to display the healthy, low-carbon and environmentally friendly product characteristics of Tiantai Yellow Tea, which greatly enhances product competitiveness and realizes the dual circulation of agricultural product commodity value and ecological value. Low-carbon consumption forces similar companies to choose lower-carbon production methods, promotes a comprehensive green transformation of consumption behavior and consumption structure of the whole society, and achieves the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This further promotes the local government to achieve a win-win situation in terms of low-carbon emission reduction and green development, and contributes to the implementation of the "double carbon" goal.
In the next step, Street Town will visually display the carbon emissions and carbon absorption of yellow tea throughout its life cycle by adding carbon labels and QR codes to product packaging, so that consumers can have a deep understanding of the impact of yellow tea on the environment. At the same time, it will also encourage local tea farmers and enterprises to adopt more low-carbon and environmentally friendly production methods, promote the green and high-quality development of the yellow tea industry in street towns, and achieve common prosperity in agricultural ecology.
