The paper describes the state of progress of the LIFE The Tough Get Going (LIFE TTGG) project (funded by the
European Union). The authors aim to improve the entire life cycle efficiency of European Protected Designation
of Origin (PDO) cheeses by designing and developing software, that will work as Environmental Decision Support
System for the environmental footprint assessment (in compliance with PEF methodology promoted by European
Commission) and its reduction. The software has been calibrating and validating on the companies of the Grana
Padano and Comté cheese supply chains (100 farms, 34 dairies, and 19 packers).
In this article, the environmental impact of 10g dry matter of Grana Padano PDO cheese was evaluated,
through 3 different impact categories: Climate Change, Acidification, and Mineral Fossil & Ren Resource Depletion.
Two emission mitigation scenarios were considered: reduction of energy consumption in the dairy processing
phase and environmental packaging optimization.

Authors: Jacopo Famiglietti, Pieter R.