Processing
& Milling

Global warming burden per unit of energy

g CO2eq/MJ fuel

Total <50

Biofuels/bioliquids produced by installations* that were in operation on 23 January 2008 are exempted from complying with the greenhouse gas saving criterion until 1 April 2013. No Bonsucro EU-compliant claim can be made after 1 April 2013 for biofuel/bioliquids produced in installation that was in operation before 23 January 2008 and that does not comply with the GHG saving required by this standard.
To calculate the greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of sugarcane ethanol, the following disaggregated default values provided in point D of the annex V of the EU Directive must be used.
The default value is the sum of the default value for cultivation: 14 g CO2eq/MJ + the default value for processing (including excess electricity): 1 g CO2eq/MJ + the default value for transport and distribution: 9 g CO2eq/MJ. Emissions from the manufacture of machinery and equipment shall not be taken into account.
The operator may use this default value of 24 gCO2eq/MJ fuel if the annualized emissions associated with carbon stock changes caused by land use change after January 2008 are zero.
If carbon stock changes due to land use change after January 2008 are not zero, greenhouse gas emissions resulting from changes in land carbon stocks must be added to the default values from the production and use of sugarcane ethanol. Emissions from carbon stocks changes must be calculated in accordance with Appendix 5 of this standard and Appendix 4 of the Audit guidance.
The calculation of actual values is not permitted at present.In future revisions of section 6 of the Standard, the possibility of using actual or a combination of disaggregated default and actual values will be offered. The methodology to calculate actual values will follow the rules established by the Directive 2009/28/EC and the procedures will have to be submitted to the European authorities for formal approval.
* The term ‘installation’ includes any processing installation used in the production process. It should not be understood as including production facilities that might have been intentionally added to the production chain only to qualify for the exemption foreseen in this provision.

Processing
& Milling

Percentage of land with high biodiversity value, high carbon stock or peatlands planted to sugarcane after the cut off date of 1 January 2008.

%

0%

Land with high biodiversity value. Land that had one of the following statuses in or after January 2008, whether or not the land continues to have that status:
(a) primary forest and other primary wooded land, namely forest and other wooded land of native species, where there is no clearly visible indication of human activity and the ecological processes are not significantly disturbed;
(b) areas designated by law or by the relevant competent authority for nature protection purposes; or for the protection of rare, threatened or endangered ecosystems or species recognised by international agreements or included in lists drawn up by intergovernmental organisations or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, subject to their recognition by the European Commission; unless evidence is provided that the production of that raw material did not interfere with those nature protection purposes;
(c) highly biodiverse grassland that is: (i) natural grassland that would remain grassland in the absence of human intervention and which maintains the natural species composition and ecological characteristics and processes; or (ii) non-natural grassland that would cease to be grassland in the absence of human intervention and which is species-rich and not degraded, unless evidence is provided that the harvesting of the raw material is necessary to preserve its grassland status.
(d) new nature protection areas derived from a published European Commission decision. Bonsucro will communicate to economic operators any details of lists on protected areas as soon as they are available from the EC.
Land with high carbon stock: Land that had one of the following statuses in January 2008 and no longer has that status:
(a) wetlands, namely land that is covered with or saturated by water permanently or for a significant part of the year;
(b) continuously forested areas, namely land spanning more than one hectare with trees higher than five metres and a canopy cover of more than 30 %, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ (It does not include land that is predominantly under urban or agricultural use, understood as tree stands in agricultural systems, such as fruit tree plantations and agroforestry systems when crops are grown under tree cover);
(c) land spanning more than one hectare with trees higher than five metres and a canopy cover of between 10 % and 30 %, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ, unless evidence is provided that the carbon stock of the area before and after conversion is such that when GHG emissions savings is calculated, it complies with the minimum threshold established in criterion 6.1 of the Bonsucro standard.

Peatland. Crops for biofuels cannot be grown on land that was peatland in January 2008 unless the soil was completely drained by January 2008 or there has been no draining of the soil since January 2008.