Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)World SummitBenchmarking Sustainability of Products and Organisations8-9 October 2013 Berlin

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We created the PCF World Forum in 2008 to contribute to credible business action on climate change – with carbon footprinting at the core. Carbon footprinting was and is an essential element of any credible business strategy on climate change. Additional the current international negotiations on the next IPCC report and the lack of political leader-ship sadly illustrate how important private sector leadership still is in our global efforts to build a low carbon and renewables-based society.

Yet, any robust strategy addressing GHG emissions must also take the impacts on other environmental and social dimensions into account. This matter has also been fre-quently raised at PCF World Forum events. My opinion so far has been that creating rules for the assessment of one environmen-tal dimension, i.e. climate change, was a big enough challenge already. Mixing in all the other sustainability dimensions would have made any agreement, progress and hence practical action on the ground even more difficult. Sustainability is such a big word that

necessary trade-offs can easily be taken as excuses for the lack of specific action.

The carbon footprint standards have been created and life cycle assessment is now maturing from an expert-only discussion to its application beyond internal decision mak-ing. Examples are the creation of the PEF methodology by the European Commission, the French environmental labelling effort, the Sustainability Consortium SMRS and the ambitions for creating product group spe-cific product category rules. Now is a good time to move the dialogue forward, visibly reflected in the name change to PEF World Forum. I hope this 1st PEF World Summit provides as much impetus for the creation of tools, solutions and practical action in order to improve the environmental performance of products and global value chains as the dialogue around carbon footprinting has in the past.

Rasmus PriessFounder PEF World Forum

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Towards sustainable consumption & production: 5 years of facilitating international dialogue on environmental footprinting

With the publication of the environmental footprint guides in spring 2013 and the beginning of the pilot phase a tool is avail-able that offers the possibility to include environmental performance into core pro-cesses. This can be realised by means of the development of specific rules that actively reduce complexity, allow for comparability and define the hot-spots within a life-cycle of a product. Translating relevant environ-mental performance information into easily applicable key performance indicators (KPIs) is the silver bullet that has been demanded by many and it can be made available in the coming years.

It might be too optimistic that a life-cycle-based methodology has the immediate effect to transform every business into an organisa-tion with an environmental impact towards zero. Also consumers will need some time to adjust their habits and become environ-mentally friendlier consumers. But what the methodology can definitely manage is to re-move the main obstacles such as prohibitive costs and the proliferation of environmental performance methodologies and labels.Expansive support of a broad range of stakeholders and a high interest for involve-ment becomes apparent. Additionally, a lot

of experience from carbon footprint, LCA or sustainability assessment is already avail-able and can be built upon. The 1st PEF World Summit brings the many experts in environmental friendly production and con-sumption together, integrates perspectives from new stakeholders and aims to apply all the diverse input to shape the future of product sustainability.

The past months were already filled with many inspiring conversations on environ-mental footprinting and beyond – I am look-ing forward to elaborate on those with you.

Jan Christian Polanía GieseProgramme Director PEF World Summit

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Consumption of goods and services directly and indirectly contributes to a large share of worldwide GHG emissions and further envi-ronmental impacts. Efforts are underway to better understand, manage and reduce these emissions. Standards and tools for carbon and environmental footprinting as well as more comprehensive sustainability metrics are developed, refined and practically tested. The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) World Forum* is a neutral platform to share practical experiences and knowledge to-wards climate-conscious and environmental-ly friendly consumption and production. The international platform provides orientation in current standardisation and guidance pro-cesses and creates opportunities for discuss-ing international corporate best practices and emerging tools to support environmentally friendly consumption models.

The PEF World Forum* was created out of the ambition to talk with each other and not just about each other, given the ever increasing number of initiatives around the world and often little real understanding of respective approaches and activities. PEF World Forum* is an initiative by Berlin based think-do-tank THEMA1.

www.pef-world-forum.org

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About the PEF World Forum*

* formerly known as PCF World Forum

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PCF World Summits• International Approaches to Product Car-

bon Footprinting and Labelling, 2/2009.• On the Road to Harmonisation? Business

Responses to Diverg. Approaches, 9/2009. •Sector Approaches to Product Carbon

Footprinting, 3/2010. •Product Carbon Footprinting: From Stand-

ardisation to Communication, 10/2010.• Implementing the International PCF

Standards: Building Credibility in Carbon Footprint Information, 4/2011.

•Environmental Footprinting in Europe and Beyond: How will it shape the Corporate Agenda?, 10/2011.

•From Environmental Footprinting to Imple-mentation: Renewable Energy in the Value Chain, 4/2012.

•Renewable Resources in the Value Chain: A Viable Option for Reducing Environmen-tal Footprints?, 9/2012.

PEF Policy Conference•Product Environmental Footprinting (PEF):

Policy and implementation in the EU and internationally, 4/2013

Dialogue Fora •Zukunftsmarkt Klimaschutz: Trends, Chan-

cen und Herausforderungen, 5/2007.•Von Großbritannien lernen?, 10/2007.•Product Carbon Footprinting and CO2-

Labelling in Europe, 5/2008.•Low Carbon Food Chain, 5/2011.•Grünstrom-Bilanzierung im Carbon und

Environmental Footprinting 2/2012•Einkaufskriterien: Welche Rolle spielt der

CO2-Fußabdruck? 12/2012•EU-Regulierung von Produktnachhaltigkeit

– Chancen und Risiken für Unternehmen, 8/2013

Update Workshops• International Standardisation, Legislation

and Consistency in Product Carbon •Footprinting, 7/2009.•French Environmental Labelling Scheme:

What to Expect from Grenelle 2, 6/2010.

Roundtables•Product Category Rules, 10/2010.•Product Category Rules, 4/2011.•Product Category Rules, 10/2011.•Product Category Rules, 4/2012.•Product Sustainability Initiatives, 9/2012

Past Activities of the PEF World Forum*

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3M4C AssociationACCIONA InfrastructureADEMEAdidasADM HamburgAENORAISTAkzoNobel Technology & EngineeringAlanus Universityalesco green packagingAlfred RitterAlnaturaAlstom PowerANEC Environment Working GroupANH ImmobilienAsahi Photoproducts EuropeAustrian Research Institute for Chemistry and TechnologyBangor UniversityBarillaBASF BayerBayerische Landesanstalt für LandwirtschaftBayreuth UniversityBBDOBehaviour Change Beiersdorf Berlin Institute of TechnologyBerndt & PartnerBio Intelligence Service Blauer EngelBlue Horse AssociatesBP EuropeBREAD & butterBritish CouncilBritish EmbassyBSIBureau de Promotion des Produits du Bois du Québec, CanadaBureau de Normalisation du Québec, CanadaBVL MagazineC.A.R.M.E.N. Canon SwitzerlandcapitalCarbon Disclosure

ProjectCarbon Fix Carbon Footprint of Products Project, JapanCarbon TrustcarboNzeroCasinoCentre for Low Carbon FuturesCentre for Sustainable Consumption and Production / Finnish Environment InstituteChainfood Chair of Economic Geography, BerlinChina National Institute of StandardizationCIRAIGClimatePartnerClimatop CP KelcoCoca-ColaCOLEACPColruyt Confederation of Finnish Construction IndustriesConsumers InternationalCoopcopeCOWICtiflDEKRACUEIMDanonedefra UKdelfortgroupDeloittedenkstattDer SpiegelDeutsche BahnDeutsche Lebensmittel-rundschauDeutsche Milchwirt-schaft / Trade JournalDeutsche TelekomDG EnvironmentDevelopment Research NetworkDHL Innovation CenterDigitaleuropeDIN / NAGUSDNV

DoleDQS DSMDuPontDutch Product Board for HorticultureE.ONEarthsterEcoFinanceEcofys UK ECOHZ ecoinventEcology and Environ-ment do BrasilEmbassy of Malawi, GermanyEnviron GermanyEnvironmental EconomistEOI Business SchoolEPDERMErnst & Young EUREFEuropean Association of Communications Agencies (EACA)European CommissionEuropean Commission‘s Joint Research CentreEvonikEvonik DegussaFederal Environment Agency, AustriaFederal Environment Agency, GermanyFederal Ministry for Environment, AustriaFederal Ministry for the Environment, GermanyFederal Office for the Environment (FOEN)Federal Office for the Environment SwitzerlandFederal Press Office, GermanyFederal Public Service Environment, DG EnvironmentFederation of German Consumer OrganisationsFedisFindusFinnish Meteorological Institute

First Climate GroupFlo-CertForest Carbon Group Forest Stewardship CouncilFraunhofer IMLFreie Universität BerlinFresenius Medical CareFriends of the Earth Austria/GLOBAL 2000FRoSTAFujitsu Technology SolutionsFutureCamp ClimateFuturepastGaiaGDA GEOGetec Climate ProjectsGHG ProtocolGies KerzenGITEC Consult Glocalist MedienGoodGuideGovernment of QuebecGrantham Research Institute / LSEGreenextGreen Line ConsultingGreenpeaceGreenpeace MagazineGroupe Casinogrüneköpfe GS1 GermanyGTZGuangdong Energy Conservation Center, ChinaGuardian UKGUTcertGZETI H&MHamburg Global Climate FoundationHartmannHeinekenHeinrich Bauer Produktions HenkelHewlett-PackardHiltiHolcimHoofHop-Cube

The previous PCF World Summits attracted interest and commitment from more than 500 stake holders from over 35 countries and stimulated wide-ranging discussions. For the last four years, the PEF World Forum (formerly known as PCF World Forum) has brought together agents of change from:

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Hugo BossHSEHuntsmannHydroIBM IdeenscoutIHK BerlinIhobeIIIEEILIBIndustrie Forum Design Initiative for Sustainable Use of PaperInnovysInst. for Adv. Study in the HumanitiesInstituto TerraInterfaceInternational Institute for Sustainability Analysis and StrategyInternational Trade Centre IntertekIseal AllianceISOJapan Business Council in Europe (JBCE)JEMAIJohnson & JohnsonJustus Liebig University GießenKarlsruhe Institute of TechnologyKasetsart University, ThailandKEITI Kellogg EuropeKing Mongkut‘s Uni-versity of Technology Thonburi, ThailandKings College LondonKist Europe KlimAktivKMPGKorea Eco-Products InstituteKorea Specialty Chemical Industry AssociationKRAV ek förKvantita OyLagos State Environ-mental Protection Agency Landcare ResearchLandmark EuropeLebensmittelzeitungLeuphana UniversityLevisLockheed MartinLoNam MagazineLUBW KarlsruheLVT Lebensmittel-verfahrenstechnikMaersk Container IndustryMakita UK

MANMcDonald‘s Europememo Merck MieleMigrosMinistry for Sustainable Developement, FranceMinistry of Agriculture and Forestry, New ZealandMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industrie, JapanMinistry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export of Québec, CanadaMitsubishiMizuho Information & Research InstituteMTT FinlandmyclimateNature & MoreNatureWorksNike Noble Carbon Credits Novozymes NZ Netzeitungofi Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and TechnologyOlam Europe Organic & Wellness News / MagazineORSAYOstfalia – University of applied sciencesOstfold ResearchOverseas Environmental Cooperation Center JapanOVIDPA-EuropePanasonic EuropePE InternationalPepsiCoPforzheim UniversityPhilips LightingPlasticsEuropePotsdam Institute for Climate Impact ResearchPRé ConsultantsPriceWaterhouseCoo-persPUC RioQuantisQuebec Ministry for Economic development, Innovation and Export tradeRainforest AllianceRDC-EnvironmentRecarbon DeutschlandRed OnionRepsolResearch Institute of

Organic Agriculture Roland BergerSAINT GOBAIN PACKAGINGSAPSara LeeSavage & HallSCA Hygiene Products Schäffer Schmid & Partner SCHOTT Solar Scottish Development InternationalSecretariat ISO 14067SEEAP NepalSER Sustainable Equity ReturnSERISGS Sustainability ServicesSGS Institut FreseniusShell Global SolutionsSIK, the Swedish Institute for Food and Bio technologySoil & More SolarWorldSonterraSony GermanySouth Pole Carbon Asset ManagementSouth West College, UKSteinbeis Centre of Management and TechnologyStiftung WarentestStora Enso OyjStraubing Centre of ScienceSustainSUSTAINABLE BRIDGESSustainable Business InstituteSustainable Consumpti-on InstituteSvenskt SigillSwedish Environmental Management CouncilSwedish Environmental Protecting AgencySwedish Institute for Food and BiotechnologySwedish Standards InstituteSyngenta SystainTaiwan Environmental Management Associationtape.tvTchibo TechniData Tengelmann Energie TescoTetra PakThai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initiative

The Climate ConservancyThe Guardian & The ObserverThe Himalayan Global FundThe Sustainability ConsortiumThe Waste & Resources Action ProgrammeTransitionsTriad BerlinTricorona GermanyTrsconTruCostTUNAP GroupTÜV Nord TÜV Rheinland TÜV Süd UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle InitiativeUnited Nations Environment ProgrammeUnited Nations Industrial Development OrganisationUniversità BolognaUniversità ca‘ FoscariUniversity of AberdeenUniversity of BonnUniversity of BremenUniversity of GöttingenUniversity of HohenheimUniversity of ManchesterUniversity of PaduaUniversity of PforzheimUniversity of Technology MunichUniversity of TokyoUniversity of Witten /HerdeckeUPM-KymmeneUPS GermanyUtopiaVertis Environmental Finance VITO NVW.L. Gore & AssociatesWacker Chemie WBCSD / WRIWeGreenWestLBWindMadeWipak Walsrode World Resources InstituteWWFZEIT DIGITALZEIT MagazineZEIT OnlineZero Emissions Technologies

Improving the sustainability of products

The members of the International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives (INPSI) are cooperating to advance and accelerate the implementation of product sustainability. The ever growing network has been initiated by the WRAP Product Sustainability Forum (WRAP PSF) and so far includes almost 30 interna-tional initiatives. The first physical meeting took place just before the 8th PCF World Sum-mit in September 2012 and a second meeting was held in Paris in June 2013. Several pilot projects have been launched and a Joint Declaration will be published at the 1st PEF World Summit.

Steering group members of INPSI are: UNEP SETAC Lifecycle Initiative (LCI), Product Sustainability Forum (PSF), European Com-mission/DG Environment, The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), PEF World Forum, Collab-orating Centre on Sustainable Consumption & Production (CSCP), Consumer Goods Forum, French Ministry for Sustainable Development, European Commission, DG JRC. By working together, the members of INPSI seek to help businesses, governments and other stakeholders to cost-effectively prioritise their efforts on those product categories with the most significant environmental, ethical and

social impacts and opportunities. Furthermore INPSI helps to select solutions from a range of options that will realise the economic benefits of taking action.

Through global collaboration, dialogue, leadership, advocacy and shared action INSPI aims at creating a practical and effective way forward to enable a vision of improving global product systems sustainability:

•Provide collaborative work space for use by international product sustainability initiatives

•Enable and maximise value from the de-velopment, sharing and communication of product knowledge and wisdom

•Learn from practical piloting and implemen-tation activities

•Promote the activities and best practices of the network’s members

• Identify gaps in knowledge and find opportu-nities to fill them

•Meet the needs of key stakeholders

www.product-sustainability.net(available soon)

International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives (INPSI)

From wisdom to action: 2nd INPSI working session, June 2013 in Paris

The PEF World Forum is a joint platform setup to foster and facilitate dialogue on how toassess, reduce and communicate the impactof goods and services on the climate. Alarge number of such initiatives have formedover the years and more are emerging. Thefollowing pages provide an introduction tosome of these initiatives, many of which areparticipating in the 1st PEF World Summit.

1) Quantification Initiatives•EU Environmental Footprint Project•GHG Protocol Value Chain and Product Life

Cycle Standards• ISO 14067 – Carbon Footprint of Products•PAS 2050•PCR Guidance•GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance•GHG Protocol Agriculture Guidance•European Food SCP Round Table

2) Communication Initiatives•Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain, UK•Environmental Product Footprint Declara-

tion, France•Product Carbon Footprint Pilot Project

Quebec•Carbon Reduction Label, UK•Carbon Footprint of Products Initiatives,

Japan• International EPDsystem, Sweden•GEDnet•Thai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initia-

tive, Thailand•Carbon Footprint Labels, Taiwan•Hop Badge, France•Environmental Index, France•Per il Clima, Italy•Carbon Footprint Label, Korea•Zurück zum Ursprung, Austria•Carbon Film Quote

•Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Man-agementProject, Nigeria

3) Certification Initiatives•The Blue Angel, Germany•Climate Certification of the Food Chain,

Sweden•Climatop, Switzerland•The Green Signal Ecolabel, India•Rainforest Alliance •The 4C Climate Module for Green Coffee

Production•WindMade•Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil•Roundtable on Responsible Soy

4) Other Initiatives•PCF Project Germany / Platform for Cli-

mate Compatible Consumption, Germany•WRAP Product Sustainability Forum•The Sustainability Consortium SMRS•UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative•Trade Promotion through Standardisation,

Swedish Standard Institute•Bloomberg Corp. Renewable Energy Index

www.pef-world-forum.org/initiatives

Worldwide Initiatives Addressing the Climate Impact of Products and Value Chains

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In its conclusion on the „Sustainable materi-als management and sustainable production and consumption“ (December 2010), the European Council invited the Commission to „develop a common methodology on the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts of products, throughout their life-cycle, in order to support the assessment and labelling of products“.

On this basis, DG Environment together with the European Commission‘s Joint Research Centre (JRC IES) and other Commission services developed the environmental foot-print methodology which was published in the Communication Building the Single Mar-ket for Green Products and of the Commis-sion Recommendation on the use of com-mon methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations. The package

•establishes two methods to measure envi-ronmental performance throughout the life-cycle, the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and the Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF)

• recommends the use of these methods to Member States, companies, private organi-sations and the financial community

•announces a three-year testing period to develop product- and sector-specific rules through a multi-stakeholder process

•provides principles for communicating envi-ronmental performance, such as transpar-ency, reliability, completeness, comparabil-ity and clarity

•supports international efforts towards more coordination in methodological develop-ment and data availability.

The three-year testing period (EF European pilot phase) was launched through an open call for volunteers. The call for the first wave of pilots closed in July and currently the ap-plications are reviewed. The objectives of the EF pilot phase are:

• to set up and validate the process of the development of product group-specific rules in case of products (Product En-vironmental Footprint Category Rules – PEFCRs) and sector-specific rules in case of organisations (Organisation Environ-mental Footprint Sector Rules – OEFSRs), including the development of performance benchmarks

• to test different compliance and verification systems, in order to set up and validate proportionate, effective and efficient com-pliance and verification systems

• to test different business-to-business and business-to-consumer communication ve-hicles for Product Environmental Footprint information or respectively Organisation Environmental Footprint information in col-laboration with stakeholders.

Stakeholders (individual companies, in-dustrial associations or any other private, non-governmental or public organisation both from the EU and outside of the EU) could volunteer to lead the process. Product categories could also be proposed without volunteering to lead the process.

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In such cases the Commission will evaluate the possibility to lead on a limited number of these.

After evaluation of the proposals the list of selected pilots will be available by the end of September 2013 via the Commission dedi-cated website:

ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/prod-uct_footprint.htm

ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/or-ganisation_footprint.htm

Currently, stakeholders have the possibil-ity to sign up to follow and contribute to the development of Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRS) that are relevant for them as well respectively for the OEF pilots to sign up to follow and contribute to the development of Organisation Environ-mental Footprint Sector Rules (OEFSRs).

Information on how to get involved will be published on this website.

The PEFCRs resulting from the EF pilot phase will become the product rules valid un-der the PEF, to be used by all stakeholders in the sector in the EU or internationally who decide to measure the performance of their products based on PEF. Similarly, the OEF-SRs resulting from the EF pilot phase will become the sector rules valid under the OEF, to be used by all stakeholders in the sector in the EU or internationally who decide to measure the performance of their products based on PEF.

A second wave of pilots addressed to the food/feed/drink products will be launched in 2014 and another call for volunteers will be respectively published In the tables and graphs below it can be found a short analysis of the proposals received.

Distribution of pilot application (PEF= Product Environmental FootprintOEF= Organisation Environmental

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Distribution of pilot applicants

PEF – PEF – OEF – OEF – as Technical Secretariat no Technical Secretariat as Technical Secretariat no Technical Secretariat TOTAL

Numberof proposals 35 35 3 17 90

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Environmental Footprint and Organisation Environ-

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The Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Pro-tocol) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and man-age greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a fifteen year partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Develop-ment, is working with businesses, govern-ments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change.

GHG Protocol’s corporate work focuses on global standards for measuring and reporting GHG emissions developed through a con-sensus-based stakeholder process. GHG protocol also develops supplemental sector guidance and calculation tools to support companies in adopting the standards. GHG Protocol corporate work includes three sepa-rate but linked standards:

•Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard (Corporate Standard) provides requirements and guidance for the ac-counting and reporting of a company’s direct scope 1 and indirect scope 2 emis-sions from purchased electricity, heat and steam.

•Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Account-ing and Reporting Standard allows com-panies to assess their entire value chain emissions impact and identify the most effective ways to reduce emissions. Often, the majority of total corporate emissions come from scope 3 sources, which means many companies have been missing out

on significant opportunities for improve-ment.

•Product Life Cycle Accounting and Report-ing Standard can be used to understand the full life cycle emissions of a product and focus efforts on the greatest GHG reduction opportunities. GHG Protocol is working on several new projects to further enable GHG accounting, reporting, and ultimately emissions reduc-tions. These include:

•Guidance on corporate accounting and re-porting for the agricultural sector, financial sector, and scope 2

•New standards on policy, mitigation ac-tions, and community level accounting and reporting for governments and jurisdictions

•Exploring how the corporate standard scope 1, 2, and 3 framework can be used for multi-impact assessments

•Scoping the need for a new standard on accounting and reporting the positive climate impacts of products (avoided emis-sions).

Together, the 3 standards provide a full suite of corporate GHG accounting standards.

www.ghgprotocol.org/standards/

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GHG Protocol Value Chain and Product Life Cycle Standards

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On May 21st 2013, the International Stad-ardization Organization (ISO) published the requirements and guidelines for product car-bon footprint (PCF) studies as the Technical Specification ISO/TS 14067. The document comprises principles, requirements and rec-ommendations for the quantification and the communication of complete as well as partial product carbon footprints. ISO/TS 14067 also delivers guidance for the development of or the alignment with already existing product category rules (PCRs). The Technical Speci-fication is based on International Standards on life cycle assessment (ISO 14040 and ISO 14044) for quantification and on environmen-tal labels and declarations (ISO 14020, ISO 14024 and ISO 14025) for communication. Requirements and guidelines for the quantifi-cation and communication of a partial carbon footprint of a product (partial CFP) are also provided. Where the results of a CFP study are reported according to ISO/TS 14067:2013, procedures are provided to support both transparency and credibility and also to allow for informed choices.

Thanks to an initiative from the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS), ISO member for the country, and the Swedish International Devel-opment Authority (Sida), the ISO process has gained significant engagement from develop-ing countries, in particular from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA countries) and the East African Community (EAC countries). Those contributions are helping to develop an international guidance is useful around the world. This strong interest from developing countries was also reflected in the growing engagement of India and China.

Contrary to the initial planning the 14067 document has evolved into a ISO/TS Techni-cal Specification instead of a ISO Standard. There was insufficient support for the approval of the final draft International Standard (FDIS) among the participating countries, which led to the publication of a Technical Specifica-tion. This normative document also builds on consensus within the ISO committee but fol-lows different approval criteria. The follow-up process has not been communicated yet. By May 2016 the Technical Specification shall be reviewed and either be confirmed for another three year period, be revised, be withdrawn or enter the development process of an Interna-tional Standard again. It is recommended by ISO that after six years a Technical Specifica-tion should be either withdrawn or converted into an international standard.

www.iso.org

ISO 14067 – Carbon Footprint of Products – Requirements and Guidelines for Quantification and Communication

PAS 2050: Paving the Way to Product Sustainability

PAS 2050 – how it all startedOriginally published in 2008, PAS 2050 is the world’s first carbon footprint standard devel-oped to assist organizations in assessing and managing the climate change impact of the products they offer. Used internationally on a wide array of products, PAS 2050 sets a methodological benchmark for other national and international footprint initiatives to strive towards and be informed by.

The 2011 revision of PAS 2050 rendered it more accessible to a wider range of busi-nesses by addressing advances in theoretical knowledge and the practical experience of the PAS 2050’s far-reaching user community. Co-operation with organizations such as ISO, WRI/WBCSD and the European Commis-sion brings PAS 2050 and its use towards closer alignment with other international footprint methods to promote harmonization of standards.

Supporting assessment at the sector level, driving wider GHG management effort PAS 2050:2012 permits the coordinated de-velopment and use of supplementary require-ments, i.e. additional rules for GHG emission assessment applicable to specific industries or product categories. Examples of category-specific initiatives include:

PAS 2050-1:2012 offers invaluable assistance and clarity to organizations within the horticul-ture sector for the assessment of the climate change impact of horticulture products. PAS 2050-2:2012 establishes supplementary requirements for the application of PAS 2050

to the assessment of emissions from seafood and other aquatic food products.

PAS 2395 (in development) will set out re-quirements supplementary to PAS 2050 and other methodologies for the assessment of GHG emissions from the life-cycle of textile products.

PAS 2050 has informed further standards work around GHG management. Examples include:

PAS 2060:2010 supports organizations looking to become carbon neutral and make credible claims. With its review underway, the new version of PAS 2060 (expected 2014) will have the benefit of technical input from an international panel of experts, appropriate to its role as an globally applicable specification, supporting the future definitions of carbon neutrality.

PAS 2070 for the assessment of GHG emissions of a city provides a transparent methodology for the consistent and compara-ble quantification, attribution and reporting of GHG impacts at the urban level.

Toward Product SustainabilityThe PAS 2050 family of documents helps organizations better control their climate change impacts, become more efficient and realize cost savings while focusing on the single impact category of global warming. At BSI, we realise that today’s huge task is to-start addressing the impact of the global sup-ply chain in its totality by considering other environmental and social aspects, devising

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effective solutions to manage these. BSI’s portfolio of Sustainability standards includes tools from different sub-disciplines, ranging from embedding sustainable development into business practices, encouraging re-source efficiency, promoting environmentally friendly technologies, to supporting socially responsible practices, ethical trading, the move to circular economy thinking and the development of innovative business models based on sound Sustainability principles.

www.bsigroup.com/sustainabilitywww.bsigroup.com/PAS2050

PCR GuidanceGuidance for Product Category Rule Development

The increasing demand for LCA-based product declarations, such as product carbon footprint and EPDs, has generated a corresponding need for rules for making comparable declarations of products within the same category. These rules are re-ferred to as product category rules (PCRs), product rules, supplementary requirements or product footprint category rules in differ-ent standards. Thus far, the development of PCRs has taken place independently by various programs using one of the above-mentioned standards. As a result, there is no strong consensus on how to develop sound and consistent PCRs, nor is there a produc-tive cross-recognition of PCRs between

various programs.Through discussions over the past year in multi-stakeholder organizations such as the PCF World Forum’s PCR Roundtable and Taskforce, it has become clear that more guidance on PCRs could benefit all parties involved and help improve the legitimacy of the product declarations.

A separate initiative was established with the mission to create and maintain supplemen-tary guidance to LCA-based product claim standards, that ensures consistency in the development of PCRs around the globe.

The group currently comprises 55 partici-pants from 44 organizations from all over the world and includes program operators, standard developers, academics, consult-ants, manufacturers, trade associations, and NGOs.

The group is coordinated by Wes Ingwersen (U.S. EPA) and Vee Subramanian (PRé North America).

www.pcrguidance.org

GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance

BackgroundFor most companies, emissions associated with electricity consumption (scope 2) repre-sent a significant portion of the total GHG in-ventory. While companies can take action to reduce energy consumption through energy conservation and efficiency improvements, much potential lies in reducing the emis-sions associated with energy production. For some companies operating on fossil-fueled energy grids, this has meant installing on-site renewable energy and consuming the zero-emissions output. But many energy markets around the world also provide contractual means for companies to procure low-carbon energy. Some of these procurement options can include selecting suppliers with renew-able energy products or labels, entering into direct contracts with generators, or purchas-ing the rights and benefits of renewable energy as certificates (such as Guarantees of Origin certificates in Europe, or Renew-able Energy Certificates in the US).

GHG accounting issues for purchased energy productsAccounting procedures for scope 2 have varied due to differences in reneawble elec-tricity products and policies across different markets, and in differing interpretations of the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard. In particular, using market-based, contractual information to calculate scope 2 raises sev-eral issues, including:

•Are there quality assurance measures in place for the instruments themselves to verify a clear chain of custody and no double selling?

•Does the contract or certificate contain information about generation emissions, also called „attributes“?

• Is double counting addressed? Dou-ble counting can occur when multiple consumers on the grid claim the same zero-emissions electricity in their scope 2 inventories.

•Should contractual instruments be required to meet further criteria in order to be used in scope 2, including considerations about: the newness of the energy project with which it is associated its receipt of other public funding sources such as feed-in tar-iffs or tax credits or the extent to which the contractual mechanism itself brought about the project? (e.g., additionality?)

An internationally-applicable frameworkTo harmonize GHG accounting practices worldwide, the GHG Protocol launched a process to develop Scope 2 Guidance that clarifies the Corporate Standard and comple-ments the existing GHG Protocol suite of international standards. The Guidance will standardize how companies must report scope 2, specifying the data types and pro-cedures for both a location-based account-ing approach (using grid average emission factors) and a market-based accounting approach (reflecting energy tracking certifi-cates and other contractual instruments). It also specifices policy-neutral criteria and procedures necessary for purchases to be used in a market-based method. It will address unique policy variations in different jurisdictions, and provide narrative disclo-sure language to transparently describe a company’s actions.

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Development Process and TimelineThe Guidance is currently in a global, multi-stakeholder Technical Working Group consultation and will be available for public comment in November 2013. Final publi-cation of the Guidelines is scheduled for February 2014. Please contact Mary Sotos (msotos@wri.org) to learn more.

www.ghgprotocol.org/feature/ghg-protocol-power-accounting-guidelines

Greenhouse Gas Protocol Agriculture Guidance

The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard is the dominant tool used by businesses and other organizations to measure, manage, and report GHG emissions. As interest has grown amongst agri-businesses in reporting agricultural emissions, so has awareness of challenges to GHG management in the sec-tor. These include:

1. Accounting for changes in the manage-ment and ownership of the carbon stored in soil and biomass, particularly those changes resulting from land use change.

2. The high level of variability in emissions rates over both space and time, affecting the ability to set and track progress toward GHG emissions reduction targets.

3. The difficulty in separating natural from human causes of emissions, affecting the usefulness of inventories as management tools.

4. The large uncertainties of many estimates of agricultural emissions.

To help resolve these challenges and harmo-nize GHG accounting practices worldwide, the GHG Protocol is developing the Agricul-ture Sector Guidance – a supplement to the Corporate Standard that will provide an in-ternational framework establishing principles and practices for reporting agriculturalemissions in corporate inventories. The Guidance will cover all agricultural and horticultural subsectors, including livestock and crop production. It is intended for large agribusiness and has utility for downstream entities, such as processors and food and drink brand manufacturers.

The Guidance has recently been subject to a public open comment period and exten-sive road-testing in a variety of production environments. English- and Portuguese-language versions of the Guidance will be published in February, 2014. www.ghgprotocol.org/standards/agriculture-guidance

Revealed!How to perform an Environmental Footprint.

Sustainability expertise, data and software to perform environmental footprints for products and organisations.

www.pe-international.com

The European Food Sustainable Consump-tion and Production (SCP) Round Table is a food-chain initiative co-chaired by the EU Commission whose vision is to promote a science-based, coherent approach to sustainable consumption and production in the food sector across Europe, while taking into account environmental interactions at all stages of the food chain. A key principle is that environmental information commu-nicated along the food chain, including to consumers, shall be scientifically reliable and consistent, understandable and not mislead-ing, so as to support informed choice. The Environmental Assessment of Food and Drink Protocol (ENVIFOOD Protocol) has been developed by the Round Table in ac-cordance with:•The Terms of Reference of the European

Food SCP Round Table (2010)•The Rules of Procedure for the Working

Groups on the Food SCP Round Table (2010)

•The Guiding Principles of the Round Table for voluntary environmental assessment and communication of environmental information along the food chain, including to consumers (2010).

Based on the Guiding Principles of the Round Table (2010), the Protocol was developed through a stepwise procedure which consisted of two scientific workshops, a detailed analysis of the relevant method-ologies and data for assessing the environ-mental issues of food and drink products and a series of consultation steps. This consulta-tion process involved all the members of the European Food SCP Round Table, environ-

mental assessment software stakeholders, developers of impact assessment methods, national networks on environmental assess-ment methodologies, national governments, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Food and Agriculture Organisa-tion (FAO), consumer NGOs, environmental NGOs, and the general public. The Protocol is a live document. As environmental as-sessment methodologies and guidelines are evolving continuously, any change may be proposed directly to the Secretariat of the European Food SCP Round Table during the period of validity. The Protocol is being tested in 2013 by more than 20 companies and may be modified accordingly. To claim compliance with the ENVIFOOD Protocol, a process would be responsible for checking if compliance has been achieved for sub-sectorial methodologies or product category rules (PCRs). In order to be eligible to ask for endorsement, applicant organisations shall:•Appoint third-party qualified reviewers to

critically review the methodologies concerned against the Protocol rules

•Report on the review process in detail and its findings

•Deviations from the Protocol highlighted by reviewers are to be justified with ar-guments and reasoning by the applicant organisations.

ENVIFOOD Protocol-compliant methodolo-gies shall refer to a specific Protocol version number. The second phase of the PEF testing which will be open to food and drinks will build on the results of the testing of the ENVIFOOD Protocol. www.food-scp.eu

European Food SCP Round Table

Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain, UK

Climate change has become a mainstream business issue and large corporations are now extending their gains in internal carbon management to the next opportunity: their supply chain. An organisation’s supply chain can represent as much as 86 % of its total emissions and, in the past year alone, 30 % of Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supply Chain member companies reported supply chain disruptions due to weather-related incidents.

The business case is strong and growing: suppliers that do not measure, quantify, and manage their GHG emissions will soon see their business move to competitors that can provide better information and clearer evidence of change. Supply chain engage-ment can help mitigate these risks and drive greater emissions reductions, as well as identifying new revenue opportunities and improved brand positioning. Cost reductions primarily come from energy efficiency measures, collaborative efforts in packaging, logistics, and other functions.

Leading companies are now taking the risks and opportunities that climate change presents seriously by directly engaging their suppliers. The CDP Supply Chain program enables member organisations to implement successful supplier engagement strategies, reduce supply chain emissions and manage risk in a changing climate. CDP works with many of the world’s largest organisations, such as Walmart, Dell and L’Oréal, to drive action on climate change from purchasing companies and their suppliers.

CDP Supply Chain makes a win-win scena-rio a reality: both the purchasing organisation and their suppliers benefit because relation-ships with suppliers are strengthened and suppliers improve their capacity to operate in a low carbon economy. Executed correctly, supply chain engagement will not simply generate benefits for the environment, but for the balance sheet as well.

www.cdproject.net

CDP Supply ChainMigrating to a low-carbon economy through leadership, innovation & collaboration

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) drives emissions reductions by providing a global system for companies to measure, disclose, manage and share climate change information. CDP Supply Chain enables businesses to implement successful supplier engagement strategies, reduce supply chain emissions and manage risk in a changing climate. This collaborative approach fosters innovative thinking.

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France conducted a one-year national experimentation on consumer product en-vironmental information in 2011-2012. The trial covered the quantification of environ-mental impacts and the communication of the environmental footprint to the consumer. 230 companies applied, 168 were selected. All sectors were represented, with about one third from the food and drink area. Several foreign companies took part (Chile, Colom-bia, Sweden) as well as French branches of multinationals. This experimentation allowed to test several issues (footprinting, data, communication, consumer reaction, costs, SMEs, imported products etc.). An evaluation was made and a governmental report will be sent to the Parliament in September 2013, on the basis of which new rounds of stakeholder consul-tations will be undertaken in order to discuss future developments.

www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/experi-mentation-affichage

Ernst & Young report (in French):www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Rappport_E_Y.pdf

summary in English:www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/synthserapportEYV2_EN_3.pdf

In the meantime, since 2008 the ADEME-AFNOR stakeholder platform has been de-veloping a general environmental footprint-ing methodology (BPX 30-323) and product category rules (PCR) – twentythree PCRs to date. ADEME is also constructing a public generic product life-cycle database, as well as calculators. These tools aim to facilitate the implementation of product environmental footprinting for companies, within a common framework.

affichage-environnemental.afnor.org

Environmental Product Declaration, France

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Carbon Footprint of Products Labelling Pilot Project from the Quebec Government

Recent developments in PCF have shown positive results regarding the harmonisation of methodologies. A challenge now remains to provide enough specificity to enable comparison through the development of PCRs. However, several programs provide their own PCRs. This raises the question of whether PCRs coming from different initiatives enable consistent comparisons. Moreover, there are some product catego-ries for which PCRs simply haven’t been developed yet.

To address these challenges, the govern-ment of Québec is currently carrying out a pilot project on the carbon footprint of products. To ensure the initiative is based on solid foundations aligned with international best practices, the Québec government joined forces with the Interuniversity Re-search Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services (CIRAIG).

Using the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Standard as a methodology framework, the pilot project is comparing different PCRs and testing different levels of interpretation to assess result reproducibility and the range of result variation, if any. The pilot project aims to put forward recommendations regarding PCR development and alignment and con-tribute to the collaborative work undertaken by the PCR Task Force.

The pilot will also benefit from the GHG verification expertise of the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ) who will explore source data auditing mechanisms for PCF and assess the level of assurance that can be attained and the overall auditability of scope 3 emissions.

The pilot project currently involves twelve businesses that have undertaken quantifying the carbon footprint of one or several of their products including: agricultural disinfectants, plastic packaging, biofuel, pulp and paper, dairy products, telecommunication services, primary metals and wood products for con-struction. Participating organisations were selected in an effort to cover a wide range of products, companies and parameters that could impact calculation methods.

In addition to setting out a coherent and harmonized method of calculating and verify-ing the carbon footprint of products, Québec wishes to share the results of the pilot project with fellow members of the PCF World Fo-rum and the scientific community.

www.empreintecarbonequebec.org/en

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About the Carbon TrustThe Carbon Reduction Label was created by the Carbon Trust, a not-for-profit company whose mission is to accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy.

Our work involves tasks as diverse as helping companies large and small to cut their carbon footprints, encouraging the development of new low-carbon technologies such as offshore wind and wave power and investing in the solutions of the future to develop the low-carbon economy. This will lead to more green jobs and a more sustainable future for everybody.

A guide to the labelThe Carbon Reduction Label is an easily recognisable on-pack label that can be used to check whether the producing company is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of the product on sale. Brands that want to ‘wear’ the Label are required to calculate the exact footprint of the product in question to the PAS 2050 standard. This standard was developed in 2007 by the Carbon Trust in partnership with the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and BSI British Standards. It is now being used around the world by hundreds of com-panies to calculate their PCFs.

When calculating a carbon footprint, every stage in the product‘s life cycle must be taken into account including the raw materials and packaging needed to produce it, through to manufacture, transportation, sale to the end user, use and disposal. Once the carbon footprint of the product has been measured and certified, the brand then has to commit to reducing the product’s emis-sions. Every two years, the product must be reassessed and a reduction has to have been achieved and independently certified – or the Label is removed.

www.carbontrustcertification.comwww.carbon-label.com

Carbon Reduction Label, UK

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Carbon Footprint of Products Initiatives, Japan

BackgroundFollowing “the Action Plan for Achieving a Low-Carbon Society”, approved by the Cabinet in July 2008, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) started the CFP Project in Japan based on ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO 14025. After one year of trial study, the CFP Pilot Project was officially launched in 2009.

The CFP Pilot Project (FY2009-FY2011)In this three-year pilot project, many out-comes and insights were gained as shown in the following examples:•73 PCRs have been established and more

than 460 products verified.•Approximately 100 companies have

released CFP labelled products.•Basic guidelines and supplementary rules

have been published.•A CFP database with over 1,200 GHG data

has been established.•The “system certification scheme” has

been proved to be working as a new veri-fication method.

•Different types of marks have been ex-plored, including the “reduction-ratio mark”.

•Seminars, expositions and educational events have been held to disseminate CFP nationwide.

The new Japanese CFP scheme: “CFP Communication Programme”The pilot project has been completed and JEMAI (Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry) has taken over the Japanese CFP scheme since April 2012. The newly born “CFP Communication

Programme” will be carried out on the basis of outcomes gained in these three years. It intends to raise CFP’s visibility, improve cost-performance and involve more stake-holders by shifting its communication style from “simply showing the figure” to “commu-nicating results based on life cycle thinking”. Efforts will be made to integrate CFP into the “Eco-leaf Programme (Japanese Type III labelling programme)” in the near future in order to achieve more comprehensive environmental information disclosure.

www.jemai.or.jp/english/lca/project.cfm

Tokyo Eco-Products Exhibition 2011

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The Swedish Environmental Management Council, SEMCo, established a type-III environmental declaration programme according to ISO 14025 in 2006 called the International EPD®system. It includes exper-tise and organisations in many parts of the world and is open to all interested companies and organisations. Since the launch of the International EPD®system over 100 orga-nisations have developed and published more than 250 EPD´s covering hundreds of products.

New initiatives for harmonising PCR workSEMCo is currently involved in developing the first global PCR database within the cooperation of GEDnet (the Global Environ-mental Declarations Network) where these initiatives to harmonise PCR work could be very useful.

Climate declarations as an international concept for PCFsThe International EPD®system allows adap-tation of the given information to address specific user needs and market applications by introducing the concept of “single-issue

environmental product declarations”, such as those focusing only on climate impact. A climate declaration includes GHG infor-mation and reports from all life cycle stages. It gives information of a product´s total carbon footprint. As indicated below, this information can easily be summarised in a “label format” and be communicated to private consumers.

Introducing the first sustainability product declarationSEMCo has developed a concept for sustainability product declarations based on the three pillars of sustainability including environmental LCA, social LCA and life cycle Costing (LCC), together with a scheme for third party verification.

www.environdec.com

The International EPD®system, Sweden

CARBON FOOTPRINT

kg CO2-eq 3,1 16,7 0,2 1,9 21,9

www.climatedec.com/xxx 27,7 CPC code

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GEDnet

Global Environmental Declarations Network

The Global Environmental Declarations Network (GEDnet) was founded in 1999, and is an international non-profit associa-tion of type III environmental declaration organisations and practitioners. GEDnet has 11 members and 2 associate members from 10 different countries. GEDnet has a chairman, and a secretariat chaired by SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, Sweden.

The purpose of GEDnet is to foster co- operation and encourage information exchange among its members and other parties operating or developing type III environmental declaration programs and carbon footprints, and to discuss key issues in developing such programs.

The GEDnet PCR library contains PCRs for different product categories, such as:

•Agriculture•Forestry and fishery products food

products, textiles•Utility•Electricity, gas and water•Transportable goods•Metal products•Electronics•Machinery and equipment•Services

GEDnet has a newly initiative to create a Global PCR Registry. A global database can meet the need to harmonize PCRs and carbon footprints around the world.

www.gednet.org

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RationaleAs a consequence of global warming, effective GHG emission reduction methods have been promoted and practiced globally. This has involved different actors, namely the industrial and agricultural sector as the producers, the service sector as the provi ders and the general public as the consu mers. The consumer sector can contribute to the emission reduction effort through its selec-tion of products and services with lower GHG emissions. Therefore, it is necessary for the consumers to be informed about carbon foot-prints to support their purchasing decisions.

InitiativeThailand GHG Management Organisation (Public Organisation: TGO), in collabora-tion with the National Metal and Materials Technology Centre (MTEC) and several Organisations in Thailand, has promoted the development of the CFP and the Carbon Footprint of Organisations (CFO). These aim to provide an alternative for consumers, manufacturers and organisations to reduce GHG emissions, as well as to promote and enhance the competitiveness of the Thai industrial sector in the global market. One of the aims is to prepare manufacturers for the upcoming ISO 14067 and ISO 14069 standards as well as other environmental standards.

Current statusThe CFP labelling scheme was launched in 2009. The first 23 products from 16 pilot companies were awarded with the CFP label on 25 December 2009. The CFO pilot project was launched in 2010. The 12 pilot organi-sations were awarded with CFO certificates on 22 July 2011.

The CFP labelling scheme has been very well received by the industry with enthu-siastic participation. By February 2012, 458 products from 100 companies have received the CFP label.

thaicarbonlabel.tgo.or.th

Thai Carbon Footprint and Labelling Initiative, Thailand

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Carbon Footprint Labels, Taiwan

The Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP) System in TaiwanThere are two carbon label initiatives in Taiwan. The label developed by the Taiwan-ese Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) is a cross-sector label. The Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers Association (TEEMA) launched its own label for the electronic sector. Both labels have already been awarded to a couple of products.

Introduction of the CFP System in TaiwanThe carbon footprint labelling system will be promoted and carried out in two stages. In the first stage, businesses are encouraged to conduct and assess the carbon footprint of their products. This will allow them to understand the percentage of GHGs emit-ted throughout the various stages of their pro duct’s life cycle. Furthermore, it will help them to review and plan solutions for their GHG reduction.

Consumers, on the other hand, will be more likely to understand and purchase products with carbon emission revelations. This will, in turn, encourage businesses to increase their efforts in GHG management and reduction. Once the assessment and labelling systems for the CFP will be standardised with unifying rules, and once most products of the same category will be labelled accordingly, the project will enter a second stage, aiming at reducing the carbon emissions through concrete action.

Guideline for accounting the carbon footprint of products and servicesSince ISO 14067 is not yet completed, a guideline to assess the carbon footprint of products and services has been created to serve as a reference for carbon footprinting. Based on a LCA method under CNS 14040 and CNS 14044, and referring to the content of PAS 2050:2008 and ISO 14067 CD1, this guideline provides detailed rules as well as a unifying accounting method to calculate the GHGs throughout the life cycles of products and services from all sectors.

cfp.epa.gov.tw

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HopBadge, France

Collect, Compute and Publish environ-mental footprints. At scale.The purpose of HopBadge is to enable consumers to easily access and understand environmental product information. This is achieved by providing synthetic, transparent and documented information in order to sup-port eco-conscious purchases. The products are carrying HopBadge on their packaging, digitally through mobile and/or directly on the product page of e-merchant websites. 35 000 products have already dis-closed their environmental footprints through this tool. It played a role in the French pilot on environmental labeling and helped retail-ers to display thousands of labels.

Produce environmental footprint labeling at a large scaleBehind the HopBadge is a tool able to gather and compute automatically all the environmental data available on a product and its brand: this tool is called HopMedia. A significant part of the product data gathered concerns life cycle assessment (LCA) data, which are displayed through 3 LCA indica-tors. The indicators vary depending on avail-able product category rules. With a multi-lev-el error detection system HopMedia reduces the chance to get bad data in the system. And this directly lowers the risks linked to the use of the resulting environmental footprint. The digital form of the display is the most complete as it enables easy and quick comparison, but also interaction (through for example social network tools) as well as several levels of information, including multimedia. It concerns all the aggregated environmental data such as the product

labels, the manufacturer CSR policy, and also pedagogical content. The approach is fully transparent as the whole methodology is explained as well.

Get instant feedback and enable customi-zation by the consumerThe digital form offers the possibility to gather statistics. Indeed, once the tool is implemented, statistics can be collected on how the consumer interacts with the informa-tion and which specific information he is looking for in order to continuously improve the service. For instance, it has been meas-ured that HopBadges are consulted 3 million times a month. HopBadge is often paired with another digital tool called HopSimu. HopSimu is a simulator that empowers the consumer to specialize the environmental data that he is reading to his own behavior.www.hop-cube.com

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Projects stakeholders and products concernedThe project stems from an active collabora-tion of members of the retail trade, food man-ufacturers and an environmental consultant company (Bio Intelligence Service). A techni-cal partnership was also set up with this environmental organisation, which monitored every stage of the project’s development. In addition, a group of consumer associations was consulted on a regular basis throughout the project. Until September 2013, 391 Envi-ronnemental Indexes have been calculated on food products.Casino developed an IT-tool, in order to re-duce the price and time of each calculation. This website does the calculation of the Envi-ronmental Index from simple data like recipe, packaging weight materials, logisitics, energy consumption etc. The user does not need to have an environmental training to calculate this Environmental Index.

DescriptionThe Environmental Index defined by the Ca-sino, BIO Intelligence Service and partners consortium represents the environmental impact of 100gr of product compared to the environmental impact of the total daily consumption of food of a French person, accounting for 3 impact indicators (green-house gas emissions, water consumption and eutrophication) aggregated using the PRIOR® method.This ratio, although complex to understand for the consumers, allows to have a visibility of a maximum not to be exceeded during the day. In contrast to a labelling on a „good/bad environmental profile“-mode this allows to

limit and vary consumption of products on a more individual level.

Why aggregate environmental impacts?Environmental information based on several environmental criteria can confuse custom-ers or even cancel out the potential benefits of an environmental labelling initiative of products in terms of customer behaviour by leaving them to decide between the different environmental impact categories: is it better for me to opt for climate warming? Water consumption? Eutrophication? In order to facilitate interpretation of the results and help customers in their decision-making, LCA result weighting-aggregation methods can be used: the results obtained for each environ-mental impact category are aggregated into a single score, thereby facilitating the com-parison between products. Aggregation thus provides customers with simple, easy-to-understand information, which can be used as a decision-making tool to prioritise and grade the environmental stakes both by eco-design manufacturers and policy-makers. The consortium wished to provide customers with unique environmental information on the product packaging enabling them to use it instantly as a shopping criteria.

www.indice-environnemental.fr

Environmental Index by Casino Group, Bio Intelligence Service and Partners Consortium, France

Per il Clima, Italy

Legambiente, the most widespread environ-mental organisation in Italy, supports compa-nies in bridging the gap between consumers and producers: the project, named Per il Clima, is the first label in Italy that communi-cates the amount of GHGs emitted by a product or a service during its life cycle. Per il Clima’s selection criteria consider the environmental impact of the products bought by consumers, thus moving beyond a mere consideration of quality and convenience.

As a voluntary label, Per il Clima is an expression of a corporation’s intention to assume responsibility towards the environ-ment and the consumers. The assessment of product CO2eq-emissions is conducted by Ambiente Italia, an environmental research institute, on the basis of PAS 2050. The

evaluation can be based on either the entire life cycle of the product or on one or various phases (ex. the extraction of raw materials, production, use, disposal).

www.viviconstile.org

Following a nine-month pilot programme, the Korea Environmental Industry and Techno-logy Institute (KEITI) introduced a carbon label in February 2009. So far, more than 400 goods and services have been labelled.

www.edp.or.kr

Carbon Footprint Label, Korea

Potenziale contributoall’effetto serra derivantedai gas climalteranti emessidurante le fasi del ciclo di vitadel prodotto valutate

Indicatore impatto:CO2 eq = anidride carbonicaequivalente

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Zurück zum Ursprung, Austria

The carbon footprint of Zurück zum UrsprungKnow your food’s carbon footprint and save the environment! Zurück zum Ursprung (Back to the Source) is a brand reporting the amount of GHGs emitted during the entire production of its organic food through a carbon footprint (CO2-Fußabdruck). The foot-print on each product informs the consumer about the reduction in CO2 emissions com-pared to that of conventional food. The brand is recipient of the 2009 Austrian Climate Protection Award.

GHGs caused by food productionFood production is a major player in global emissions of GHGs: 35-37 % are caused by the food industry worldwide (15 % agri-culture, 15 % land use change (LUC), 5-7 % production of foodstuff including processing, industry, and transport). To know the true environmental impact of food production, we have to take into account all processes in the production cycle: from the entire agricultural production, processing, packaging and storage to retailing the product. Only then will we know what effects our food has on the climate. The carbon footprint of Zurück zum Ursprung includes all these factors.

Back to the source´s carbon footprint The thorough scientific balance of all Zurück zum Ursprung products shows that they have much lower CO2-eq emissions than compa-rable, conventional products. What reduces the carbon footprint is the effective combina-tion of organic and sustainable farming and the principles of local food. Here are some

results of Zurück zum Ursprung agriculture: •Wheat bread: up to 53.6 % lower

CO2-eq-emissions•Dairy products: up to 20.6 % lower

CO2-eq-emissions•Eggs: up to 51.3 % lower CO2-eq-emissions

How does Zurück zum Ursprung do it?•All primary products are of domestic origin • In consideration of the destruction of

savannas and tropical land through soy cultivation (LUC), farmers working for Zurück zum Ursprung don´t use imported soy as animal feed

•Animals are only given domestic organic feed

•Humus accumulation through organic agriculture

•No use of vinasse and other easily soluble organic fertilisers

How far can we travel with such a small footprint? 400 orbits around the earth! This is how much Zurück zum Ursprung saves each year. Calculations are based on the brand’s annual sales.

www.zurueckzumursprung.at

The Carbon Film Quote tool is the world’s first TV commercial budget estimator with an integrated carbon calculator. The project was initiated by the German advertising agency BBDO in 2011. The tool lets production companies, agencies and clients identify and evaluate low-emission, environmentally-friendly production options when looking at initial cost estimates. The carbon calculator tool itself was modelled by the Berlin based Think-do tank THEMA1 building on require-ments of the GHG Protocol Product Standard and ISO 14067. At the moment of the project no product category rule (PCR) or guidelines for advertising film production were available to support the methodological creation of a CO2 balance. Hence, the process model was designed in close collaboration with commer-cial producers and further stakeholders.

The Carbon Film Quote extends the budget-only calculation programme by adding an ecological factor to the financial factors, and thereby facilitates an estimation of the climate impact (expressed in CO2e) of a TV ad. Costs and anticipated CO2 emissions are thus directly linked.

The Carbon Film Quote has been applied in several productions and already led to significant emission reductions at different points of the production life cycle of a com-mercial advertisement. In 2012, the Carbon Film Quote pilot project and its partners set

up a joint process to foster and facilitate dialogue between international initiatives and stakeholders on how to assess, reduce and communicate the impact of commercial movie making on the climate.

Initiators:BBDO Proximity, THEMA1, CMC. EU

Pilot partners:Neue Sentimental Film , Markenfilm, NHB, Das Werk, Cobblestone, Twin Film, Vogelsänger Film, Schönheitsfarm, Studio Funk, Chamaeleon, Adstream

International stakeholders:BBC UK (Albert), France Television / Ademe (Ecoprod), Producers Guild of America (Green Production Guide), Berlinale

www.carbonfilmquote.com

Carbon Film Quote

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Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management Project, Nigeria

The initiative of the Lagos State Environ-mental Protection Agency (LASEPA) in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Climate Change Unit, was introduced to the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria, Lagos State Chapter in 2010, it controls participation of over five thousand companies from both manufacturing and commercial sectors, it covers mandatory GHG emission report to the carbon registry of the Lagos state government and includes government ministries, departments and agencies.

The initiative adopts a common measuring tool for carbon footprint among organisa-tions and deployed an environmental cost management system for products and pro-jects carbon footprints.

The Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Management system is a green value chain network infrastructure providing:

•Databases of GHG emissions inventory to include the GHG associated with the transport system of Lagos State under the category of different means of transpor-tation in Lagos State. This is being con-figured by taking GHG of different routes across Lagos Metropolis, the different means of energy sources in Lagos State, the GHG emission inventory of water supply through the Lagos State Water Cooperation, the Land Use Change GHG emission information and other GHG emis-sion inventory associated with public utility.

•Environmental management system that constitutes resources for different orga-nisations to use for the effective envi-ronmental management (GHG emission measuring and control) of their products. In essence, this provides a platform for sourcing of secondary GHG emis-sions data for input into the computation of PCFs. The system provides reliable scope 3 inventory data for PCF.

The platform is configured across a state-wide supply chain system and affords com-panies within Lagos State the possibility of effective logistics management facility.

Lagos State Carbon Footprint and Manage-ment project introduced three carbon labels for consumers green consumption.

www.lagoscarbonmanagement.org

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Since 1978 the German Blue Angel has set the standard for eco-friendly goods and services. Today, about 11.700 products and services in circa 125 product categories carry the Blue Angel eco-label. It is a state-initiated label whose criteria are adopted by an indepen dent jury including representa-tives of civil organisations and the industry. In line with the international standard for eco-labelling, ISO 14024, the Blue Angel as a so called Type I Eco-label is designed to promote goods and services that have – based on the entire life cycle – reduced environmental and health impacts compared to the market average. Combined with other environmental policy instruments, eco-label initiatives can play their part to restructure the economy towards sustainable development.

In 2008 the German Federal Environment Ministry together with the Eco-labelling Board introduced a new cluster approach in which climate change is one category. To strengthen the portfolio of the Blue Angel in this regard, the Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency launched a large pro-ject within the national climate initiative.

The importance and positive effect of such developments is shown by the fact that private households alone account directly for more than one fourth of all GHG emissions in Germany. And this calculation does not even include the emissions caused by the production of goods and services. It is expected that if only the eco-labelled top runner products were used, households would be able to achieve electric power savings up to 30-40 percent.

Instead of developing a new single-issue label based on PCF, the responsible stakeholders in Germany decided in 2009 to integrate PCF into the Blue Angel as a well-established labelling programme. They are currently investigating options to put this further into practice, e.g. how to systema-tically include criteria on carbon footprinting into the criteria setting of the Blue Angel and successful ways to communicate it to the consumers.

www.blauer-engel.de/en/index.phpwww.blauer-engel-produktwelt.de

The German Blue Angel and Climate Protection

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Help consumers choose climate friendly food products in each food categoryA Swedish study shows three out of four consumers want to be able to choose food with lower climate impact, and every second consumer is willing to pay more for such a product. The Swedish approach is to present a label for food which guarantees that sub-stantial reductions in climate impact have been made. No carbon footprint is presented the criteria are based on a scan of potential improvements in the food chain.

Increase producers’ competitiveness by helping them communicate improve-ments to consumersExamples of criteria:•Fodder: Lower use of soy and locally

produced, climate calculated fodder for efficient production.

•Nitrogen: Efficient use of nitrogen to reduce emissions of nitrous oxide.

•Animal welfare: Healthy animals results in lower emissions per produced kg meat.

•Energy: Saving energy is good for the wallet and for the climate.

Third party certification to ensure that farmers and food industry comply with climate mitigation measuresThe certification is carried out through regu-lar third party inspections by an accredited certification body to ensure compliance with the criteria. The criteria are based on scien-tific background documents. LCAs are used when they exist otherwise, sound scientific studies as well as practical considerations form a strong foundation for the criteria.

Climate is only one component of sustainabilityThe climate certification system has a multi-criteria approach. The following environmen-tal targets are considered in the system:•Biological diversity•Nutrient management•Closed loop systems

From certification to labellingSwedish Seal / Svenskt Sigill offers producers who have voluntarily certified their production a label that communicates to consumers that improvements have been made.

www.klimatmarkningen.se/in-english

Climate Certification of the Food Chain – A Swedish Initiative for Lower Climate Impact of the Food Chain

ObjectivesClimatop works as a tool for realising a Low Carbon Society. The label aims to support climate friendly purchase behaviour as well as a long-term development and distribution of climate compatible products and services world-wide.

A competitive approachClimatop represents a best-in-class-label, thereby calculating and comparing innova-tive products and certifying those which emit, compared with a representative peer group or an industry average, less greenhouse gases. This leads to an incentive for produc-ers to change their products in such a way as to save energy and material, at the same time maintaining their functionality. Climatop calls these products „intelligent, climate friendly products”, since the company made an effort to improve the products in order to realise a lower environmental impact.

The award of the label is based on a full cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment (LCA) taking into account not only CO2 emissions but also relevant environmental burdens. The LCA calculations are verified by an independent, external inspection body, which corresponds to the requirement of the ISO 14040 standard. Moreover, Climatop includes social criteria.

The label is only valid for two years, then in the context of a new assessment the producer has to show that its label is still justified. In the new assessment being made, the most current standards of the LCA

methods and database values are used. If a competitor has a better result, i.e. a more climate friendly product, the former holder of the award has to return the label.

Current status and future goalsThe range of the products varies from investment to consumer goods. Moreover, the climatop label is already represented in Europe by certified products like diapers, TV’s and potting compost. One of the key goals for the future remains the coopera-tion with partners that enable a quick and geographic broadening of the label whenever it is reasonable. Recently, Climatop went international by labelling its first German product. Next important steps are going to be taken world-wide.

All labelled products are described in detail on fact sheets publicly available at

www.climatop.ch

Climatop, SwitzerlandLabelling Intelligent, Climate Friendly Products

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The Green Signal (TGS)Ecolabel, India

The Green Signal (TGS) Ecolabel was launched in June 2011 at the Indian Institute of Management Ahemdabad. It is currently India’s only comprehensive third-party sus-tainability Ecolabel and comprises a 9-mem-ber Steering Committee of domain experts from IIT-Delhi, BEE, IARI, NEERI, National Physical Laboratory, IIM (A), TNO (Neth-erlands), Indian Forest Services, and The no2co2 Project. TGS functions under the aegis of the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at IIM(A).

Genesis of Ecolabelling in India:India’s only other effort at Ecolabelling was the Government’s Ecomark scheme, established in 1991 by the Central Pollu-tion Control Board. However, in its 20 year history it hasnt issued even one ecolabel which is currently in use today. Moreover, the criteria for ecolabelling were purely related to pollution abatement and control in the manufacturing context.

The failure of the Ecomark had led to private industries in India acquiring ecolabels from other countries for their products and services. Most notably, organic certification for food products and textiles, built-spaces seeking LEED ratings, and hotels seeking commercial 2nd-party certifications such as Earthcheck and Ecotel. However, ‘GreenSig-nal’ differs from these other forms of environ-mental labelling in India. Compared to the ‘Ecotel’ certifications which are not third-party certified and non-country specific, TGS is a third-party certification based ecolabel and India-specific. For instance, it recognizes that diverse climatic zones influence building en-

ergy consumption of hotels and hence only peers within India’s climatic zones can be compared. Relative to Organic food & textile certifications, the methodologies do not just consider organic attributes of the processes but also environmental, social and economic sustainability parameters including GHG emissions, water, energy, waste and mate-rial management. Relative to the ‘Bureau of Energy Efficiency’s energy labelling of appli-ances, it not only supports informed choices based on use-phase energy consumption, but also considers life-cycle GHG emis-sions as well as emissions to air and water during manufacturing. Finally, relative to green building certifications which are largely design-intent based, it focuses on measure-ment and verification of actual impacts dur-ing operations as well.

Green Signal has developed Methodologies for hotels, events, retail stores, restaurants, educational institutes, fuel additives, com-posting systems, water pumps, cookware, construction materials, paints, refrigerators, packaged water, and textile manufacturing. It has issued Ecolabels to a hotel chain (CGH Earth), online retail stores (GreenNGood.com) and is in the process of ecolabelling educational institutes, innovations of the Na-tional Innovation Foundation, a herbal textile company, and a home composting system manufacturer.

www.thegreensignal.org

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Rainforest Alliance

Using certification to support climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture The Rainforest Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), developed criteria for best management practices to foster agri-cultural mitigation and adaptation. These criteria are part of a voluntary, add-on “climate module” intended to be accessible, practical, and understandable (with guidance) to farmers.The SAN Climate Module seeks to expand the definition of sustainable agriculture by de-fining the standards for what should constitute climate friendly or climate smart agriculture. Conformance with its 15 adaptation and miti-gation criteria will allow farmers to make cre-dible statements about their efforts to reduce net GHG emissions, increase carbon storage and build adaptive capacity on their farms.

Objectives of the module include:•Raise awareness about climate change

amongst tropical farmers•Encourage farmers to increase farms’

resiliency, proactively planning for a changing climate

•Leveraging market support to drive demand for adoption of these practices.

The Climate Module was developed by the SAN Efico, Efico Foundation and Anacafé supported its development in Guatemala as pilot country whereby a diverse range of public and private sector partners piloted the Module in various countries and crops around Africa, Asia and Latin America.

sanstandards.org/sitio/subsections/display/51

Developing carbon credit generating projects in certified farmsIn Oaxaca, Mexico, the Rainforest Alliance and Pronatura Sur, in collaboration with Agroin-dustrias Unidas de México S.A. de C.V. (a subsidiary of ECOM Trading Corporation) and Unidad Ecológica para el Sector Café Oaxa-queño (UNECAFE), a local nonprofit, have been working with over 400 smallholder coffee farmers to develop a reforestation project that seeks validation to the Verified Carbon Stan-dard and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards, leading industry standards.

Objectives of the project include:•Offering a new model for how food and

beverage companies can partner with their suppliers to mitigate climate change, by offering companies the opportunity to source both carbon credits and coffee from the same farms.

•Demonstrating a replicable framework for how voluntary agricultural certification can help smallholder farmers access carbon markets.

•Enabling smallholder farmers to generate additional revenue streams through being rewarded for the climate services their sustainably managed lands provide.

The rigor of carbon accounting and measure-ment the project requires implies that – with sufficient resources and training – LCA or other carbon footprinting methodologies could be applied in other certified farms.

www.rainforest-alliance.org/climate/projects/carbon-coffee

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The 4C Association is a leading global multi-stakeholder sustainable coffee plat-form uniting coffee stakeholders in working towards a sustainable coffee production and processing. The 4C Association offers a verifiable Code of Conduct for sustainable coffee production with a social, environ-mental and economic dimension.

Its Climate Module for Green Coffee Production adds a climate dimension to the 4C Code of Conduct. The 4C Climate Module helps coffee producers to adapt their production to the changing climate. By using synergies between adaptation and mitiga-tion means, it provides guidance for GHG sequestration and mitigation. It includes a verifiable Climate Code, trainings for produ-cers and verifiers, verification instruments and a climate database with relevant climate information.

The Climate Code defines principles related to climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as indicators for objective measure-ment. It includes four components:•Enabling environment•Natural resource management •Soil and crop management •Energy, GHG and carbon stocks

The 4C Climate Module focuses on adap-tation and links adaptation measures to mitigation effects where possible. For this purpose the project, together with further partners, tested a GHG calculator (Cool Farm Tool), monitoring on-farm emissions and identifying emission hot spots.

Next stepsAccording to a membership survey carried out by the 4C Association among 120 pro-ducers groups and 82 trade and industry re presentatives, 80 % of the respondents of both groups expect carbon footprint measure ment to become a business requirement within the next ten years and expressed strong interest in applying the 4C Climate Module.

For a scaled up impact, it is therefore planned to fine-tune and adapt the 4C Climate Module and the GHG calculator to other production systems and local contexts, align the Climate Code with other standards, and ultimately integrate the 4C Climate Module into the 4C Baseline Standard.

www.4c-coffeeassociation.org/our-services/work-on-climate-change.html

The 4C Climate Module for Green Coffee Production

The purpose of WindMade is to drive corpo-rate investments in wind power by boosting demand for products made with wind energy. In addition, WindMade aims to enhance public acceptance of wind power by raising awareness and educating consumers on the environmental and economic benefits.

The WindMade label gives companies the ability to communicate their commitment to renewable energy. Many brands have already made strong statements on this, but until now, they did not have the ability of credible, independent certification of their claims. WindMade now provides this tool.

At the same time, the WindMade label gives consumers the opportunity to choose compa-nies and products that are in line with their own values. By making informed decisions, they will reward companies that have a clear commitment towards sustainability and renewable energy.

WindMade was first introduced in 2011 by its founding partners (UN Global Compact, WWF, Vestas Wind Systems, the Global Wind Energy Council and the LEGO Group). Bloomberg is the official data provider, and PwC the official WindMade verification partner.

The WindMade Company Label communi-cates the percentage of wind electricity as a share of the overall electricity consumption of a company’s operations. To qualify, compa-nies must pledge to source a minimum of 25 % of their electricity consumption from

wind power. According to the technical standard, this can be achieved through a company-owned wind power generation facility, a long-term power purchase agree-ment for wind power, or the purchase of high quality Renewable Energy Certificates approved by WindMade.

For maximum transparency, the exact percentage of the wind energy share will be stated on the label. Companies can choose to certify global, regional or even facility level operations, a distinction that will be clearly communicated on the label itself.

Motorola Mobility, Deutsche Bank, BD, Method, the LEGO Group and Bloomberg were among the first companies to sign up to use the Company Label.

www.windmade.org

WindMadeThe World’s First Consumer Label for Companies and Products Using Wind Power

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The WindMade Label for Companies & Organizations

Both labels consist of the following elements:

• WindMade logo• % share of electricity from wind/

renewable power• Certification number

• uRL www.windmade.org• explanatory sentence with details on

company and boundaries of certification

Label type 2: Mix of renewable energy sources, with wind power at least 25%

Label type 1: Wind energy only (25-100%)

The WindMade Label for Companies & Organizations will allow users to communicate the amount of renewable electricity they procure and consume around the world. The goal of this label is to provide credible and trans parent information quantifying the consumption of electricity generated from wind energy and other renewable sources.

Once they are certified, the participating companies are authorized to use the label for their corporate communications, such as print, online, Tv and radio advertising, reports, press releases, stationary, signage on buildings and retail facilities etc.

www.windmade.org Cert No 12345[Company] is [entirely/partly] powered by [wind/renewable energy].

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www.windmade.org Cert No 12345[Company] is [entirely/partly] powered by electricity from

renewable energy sources.

45% WIND 30% SOLAR 20% HYDRO

Companies participating in the program have to fulfill the requirements set out in the WindMade Standard for Companies and Organizations.

There are two versions of the WindMade label:

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Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil was founded in 2004 as a not-for-profit association to promote the growth and use of sustainable oil palm products through credible global standards and engagement of stakeholders. It now includes stakeholders from seven sectors of the palm oil industry – oil palm producers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks and investors, environmental or nature conservation NGOs and social or developmental NGOs – and develops and implements global standards for sustainable palm oil.

RSPO certificationThe RSPO has established principles, criteria, indicators and guidance for sus-tainable palm oil production, which cover legal, economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Public claims on conformance with RSPO principles and criteria require third party verification. Indicators are part of the required evidence for conformity. To cater for different realities local interpretations of criteria and indicators are available for key countries (Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea) and currently developed for smaller producer countries.

Treatment of climate changeGHG emissions are addressed through a couple of criteria and indicators. The following indicators are required:•Documented impact assessment.•Where the identification of impacts requires

changes in current practices, in order to mitigate negative effects, a timetable for change should be developed.

•Monitoring of renewable energy use per tonne of crude palm oil (CPO) or palm product in the mill.

•Monitoring of direct fossil fuel use per ton of CPO (or fresh fruit bunch where the grower has no mill).

•An assessment of all polluting activities must be conducted, including gaseous emissions, particulate/soot emissions and effluent (see also criterion 4.4). Significant pollutants and emissions must be identified and plans to reduce them implemented.

•A monitoring system must be in place for these significant pollutants, which goes beyond national compliance.

A need to further specify criteria and in-dicators with regard to GHG emissions is acknowledged by The RSPO criteria working group and several GHG working groups have been initiated but no new criteria pro-posed yet.

www.rspo.org

Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

The Roundtable on Responsible Soy Association (RTRS) is a multi-stakeholder initiative, which aims to facilitate global dialogue on soy production that is economi-cally viable, socially equitable and environ-mentally sound.

The RTRS currently has around 150 mem-bers from all over the world, among them: Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Spain, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, USA, Uruguay and United Kingdom.

RTRS criteria and certificationThe Roundtable on Responsible Soy has de-veloped a first standard, the RTRS standard for responsible soy production – version 1.0. A parallel certification scheme is set up for production and chain of custody certification.

The RTRS standard for responsible soy production includes requirements to halt conversion of areas with high conservation value, to promote best management prac-tices, to ensure fair working conditions, and to respect land tenure claims. A certification scheme for production and one for chain of custody have been implemented. Early June 2011, the first farm was certified RTRS.

Treatment of climate changeGHG emissions are addressed through a number of “soft” criteria. No absolute criteria for climate friendly practices are defined:

•Efforts are made to reduce emissions and increase sequestration of GHGs on the farm.

•Total direct fossil fuel use over time is recorded, and its volume per hectare and per unit of product for all activities related to soy production is monitored.

• If there is an increase in the intensity of fossil fuel used, there is a justification for this. If no justification is available, there is an action plan to reduce use.

•Soil organic matter is monitored to quantify change in soil carbon and steps are taken to mitigate negative trends.

•Opportunities for increasing carbon se-questration are identified.

•After May 2009 expansion for soy cultiva-tion has not taken place on land cleared of native habitat except under certain speci-fied conditions

•All application of agrochemicals is docu-mented and all handling, storage, collec-tion and disposal of chemical waste and empty containers, is monitored to ensure compliance with good practice.

www.responsiblesoy.org

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The cross-sector and cross-stakeholder Plat-form for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany promotes joint approaches for GHG emission reductions along value chains and in consumption.

From the PCF Project to the Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption GermanyThe Platform evolved from the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Project Germany – www.pcf-project.de. In the project, which was implemented from 2007 to early 2009, the concept of product carbon footprinting was explored in practical case studies with a range of companies across sectors. Through this work, important foundations for the assessment of PCFs were established and recommendations for their application and the international standardisation of under-lying methodologies given. Findings and recommendations from the pilot phase are documented in the report “Product Carbon Footprinting – The Right Way to Promote Low Carbon Products and Consumption Habits?”, available online.

Consumption perspective important for holistic climate change mitigationThe collective work has highlighted the importance of consumption for climate change mitigation and led to the establish-ment of the Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption. In a first step the interrela-tion of consumption and climate mitigation was explored and put into a perspective of

business approaches already under way. The findings are documented in the report „Beyond Reduced Consumption: Perspec-tives for Climate Compatible Consumption”.

Cross-sector and cross- stakeholder partnership to promote climate compa tible consumptionThe Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany provides a basis for businesses and other stakeholders in society to jointly address and advance climate compatible consumption. The Platform and its members see themselves as drivers and partners in the implementation of GHG reduction measures in global value chains both on the side of the respective companies and also in the use of goods and services by consumers. Apart from stimulating dialogue around and the collective promo-tion of climate compatible consumption, the Platform offers members a context in which to measure, interpret and communicate the climate compatibility of their own products against recognised standards and in close dialogue with relevant stakeholders.

www.pcf-project.dewww.plattform-kvk.de

PCF Project Germany / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption, Germany

WRAP – The Product Sustainability Forum

Ground-breaking research, innovation and action are at the heart of the Product Sustainability Forum (PSF). The PSF is a UK-based collaboration between major retailers, international brand-owners and their manufacturing suppliers, environmental NGOs, academics and Government depart-ments to tackle the challenges posed by the environmental impacts of everyday products. Bringing together more than 80 organisa-tions, the PSF provides a platform for its members to come together to measure, communicate and reduce the life cycle environmental impacts of a range of grocery and home improvement products. WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) provides the Secretariat for the forum. Although the PSF’s work is UK-based, its membership is international and its findings can be applied world-wide. The PSF is the first organisation of its kind in the UK and demonstrates the desire and de-termination of its membership to look at ways to improve the environmental performance of products based on five key impact metrics:•GHG emissions•Energy use •Water use •Product waste•Material use

The PSF is also starting to look at the biodi-versity impacts of products. The PSF uses life-cycle thinking and en-vironmental impact ‘hotspots’ analysis to identify and prioritise work on those product categories with the most significant environ-mental impacts. It continues to develop a

‘library’ of practical solutions to tackle these hotspots in the supply chains of some of its members through a series of on-going Path-finder projects. Grocery and home improvement products are the priority areas for the PSF as they account for just over 50% of UK household consumption impacts, as measured by GHG emissions. The PSF’s research has shown that grocery products account for 33 % of these impacts, with home improvement prod-ucts accounting for nearly 18 %. Within these sectors, the environmental impacts from food and ‘energy using products’, such as fridges, freezers, cookers and washing machines, dominate, which is why the PSF is focusing its work on impact reduction opportunities (solutions) in these product categories.

The PSF also provides the Secretariat for the recently convened International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives (INPSI) and is taking part in a number of their inaugural projects.

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TSCThe Sustainability Consortium (TSC) is a global, academically led, multi-stakeholder organisation conducting research and developing data, standards, systems and tools that will improve decision-making and drive sustainability in consumer goods.

SMRSTMThe Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) under develop-ment will deliver actionable sustainability information through Category Sustainability Profiles (Level 1), and deliver a large-scale system supporting standardisation and harmonisation of product LCAs over time (Level 2). A wide range of retailers and suppliers are beginning to put TSC’s work to use, informing how they design products, source materials and buy merchandise.

Level 1The outcome of the Level 1 SMRS are Category Sustainability Profiles. Those apply to the product category level (e.g. laundry detergents, frozen beef, shoes) and are not for product level comparison. Category

Sustainability Profiles promote sharing of information and enable an informed merchant and retail buyer conversation.

Level 2The outcome of the Level 2 SMRS are Product Sustainability Declarations. Those apply to the product level (e.g. JC’s Frozen Beef Patties) and allow for direct comparison of products against the product category baseline (including uncertainty). Product Sustainability Declarations are based on a baseline LCA model and PCRs and deliver transparent, science based results.

Consumer ScienceTSC’s Consumer Science working group is actively researching effective communication of sustainability information for consumers, work that will influence how retailers and brands engage consumers around these issues. The Sustainability Consortium’s work will have important global business implica-tions by fostering, and enabling, communica-tion and reporting of sustainability characte-ristics across the supply chain.

The Sustainability ConsortiumDeveloping a Sustainability Measurement and Reporting System (SMRS) for Product LCAs

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The UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

Since its establishment in 2002, the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative has aimed to promote life cycle approaches worldwide through (1) fine-tuning methodologies, (2) promoting and facilitating the application of knowledge and tools for key target groups (governments, businesses and researchers) and (3) contributing to the strengthening of the capabilities worldwide.

Building on the successes of the first two phases of activities from 2002 to 2012, the Life Cycle Initiative has started its Phase III in 2012. Phase III is guided by the vision to work towards creating a world where life cycle approaches are mainstreamed. To this end the mission is to enable the global use of credible life cycle knowledge for more sustainable societies.

In order to achieve both vision and mission, the overarching objective of the Life Cycle Initiative is to: Facilitate the generation and uptake of science-based life cycle approach-es and information for products by business, government and civil society practice world-wide as a basis for sustainable consumption and production. The specific objectives of the Life Cycle Initiative are to:•Enhance the global consensus and rel-

evance of existing and emerging life cycle methodologiesanddatamanagement;

•Expand capability worldwide to apply and toimprovelifecycleapproaches;makingthemoperationalfororganisations;

•Communicate current life cycle knowledge and be the global voice of the Life Cycle community to influence and partner with stakeholders.

The work programme, derived through an intensive strategy development process, includes three programme areas and a num-ber of flagship and non-flagship projects. The programme areas are the following:•Data, Methods and Product Sustainability

Information•Capability Development & Implementation•Communication & Stakeholder Outreach

Currently, the Initiative has more than 2,000 registered members – six times the amount registered in 2002. If you are interested in learning more about the Life Cycle Initiative,

www.lifecycleinitiative.org

Trade Promotion through Standardisation, Swedish Standards Institute

In the programme „Trade Promotion through Standardisation“, Swedish Standards Insti-tute is together with its local partners piloting carbon footprint pilots on a number of prod-ucts in East Africa, South and South East Asia. So far, rough assessments have been made of a couple of cotton producers in Tan-zania, two tea producers in Rwanda and one coffee producer in Burundi. Carbon footprint assessments are also under way for a couple of flower exporters in Kenya, fruit producers in Uganda, tea producers in Nepal, rubber producers in Vietnam and Sri Lanka as well as rice producers in Cambodia. This initiative is part of a larger programme which aims at enhancing the capacity stake-holders in the East African, South and South-east Asian regions in ISO standard setting processes and implementation of life-cycle assessment ISO standards. The two main cases used around it are the participation in the standard setting process on a new ISO standard on Sustainability Criteria for Bioen-ergy and the implementation of the ISO TS 14067 on carbon footprint of products. The latter is a process led by the National Stand-ardisation Bodies who invites producers and stakeholders from academia, private sector and public institutions etc. to take part in the pilots. The set-up is done a bit differently in different countries but the East African pilots can be taken as an illustration. They have started with involving a couple of producers in each country to first make a rough assessment of their product carbon footprint at the same time as training a larger group of other stakeholders on the method-

ology. The idea is to identify step-by-step what further actions can be taken, drawing from the lessons learned in each step by the different actors and institutions involved. For example, following the outcomes of the initial activities in Rwanda and Uganda, a couple of universities in Rwanda and Uganda are embarking on doing further Lifecycle assess-ments for other producers with students at the same time as delving more into specific emission factors for the region. Likewise the lessons learned by the first couple of cotton producers in Tanzania are now being spread to other cotton producers in the country to facilitate them to conduct their assessments. Water footprint assessments and Lifecycle assessments are also being planned with some other producers. About the Programme:The Programmes are run in East Africa to-gether with the East African Community and national standardisation bodies in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. In South and South East Asia it is implemented with Consumer Unity & Trust Society and the standardization bodies in Sri Lanka, Bang-ladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Indonesia. The programmes are financed by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. www.sis.se/en/theme/The-International-De-velopment-Cooperation-Department-at-SIS/

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13:30 Network Lunch14:30 Walk & Talk (+ email time)15:00 Open Space Dialogue 1

▶ International Network of Pro-duct Sustainability InitiativesPhilip Strothmann, Mark Barthel, Euan Murray, Jim Fava, Rasmus Priess

▶ Avoided emissions through innovative productsAnnemarie Kerkhof, Marga Blom, Nicola Paczkowski

▶ Sector initiatives and the EU Environmental Footprint pro-cess – a discussionAndrea Brown, Michele Galatola, Rana Pant , Pascal Gréverath, Guido Axmann

16:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)17:00 Business Response Forum I

▶ Heineken’s practical approach to carbon footprintingPaul Bruijn

▶ Industry approach to apparel LCAsDesirae Early

▶ Challenges of product envi-ronmental footprinting in a global marketKristof Peerens

▶ Questioning the comparison utility of PEFsTerry Thiele

▶ Environmental footprinting from the perspective of a packaging producerSylviane Armagnacq

▶ Sustainability strategy and activities of AkzoNobelCarmen Alvarado

▶ PEFCR for electricity from renewable sourcesAndreas Wade

18:00 Wrap up18:30 Closing Day 119:30 Aperitif & Dinner (Launch of

INPSI Declaration)

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Programme Overview Day 1, Tuesday, 08 October 2013

08:30 Check-in and welcome coffee09:30 Welcome

Guido Axmann 09:45 Introduction & Overview

Jan Christian Polanía Giese & Rasmus Priess

10:15 The EU Environmental Footprint pilot phase and further stepsMichele Galatola

The EU Food SCP Round Table: Efficient implementation of PEF at sector level

Pascal Gréverath Brief intervention on methodo-logical issues in PEF/OEF

Rana Pant 11:15 Meet & Greet (coffee)11:45 The evolution of product sus-

tainability Euan Murray 12:15 A.I.S.E. sustainability strategy

and EU Product Environment Footprint activitiesValérie Séjourné

12:30 Country Response Forum ▶ PEF – opportunities and chal-lengesUlf Jaeckel

▶ Perspectives from the environ-mental labelling pilot phase Sylvain Chevassus

▶ UK government perspectives Alice Baverstock

▶ Austria’s perspective on the EU Environmental Footprint initiative Hanna Schreiber

▶ Current status of Japanese LCA communication programs & related activities Masayuki Kanzaki

▶ PCF Pilot Project from Quebec – latest updates Sophie Fallaha

▶ Measure & monitor the foot-print of 1000´s of product lines without prohibitive costsCraig Simmons

▶ Measuring the full sustaina-bilty performance of material & productsKevin Brady

13:00 Network Lunch14:00 Walk & Talk (+ email time)14:30 Retailer Response Forum

▶ Perspectives of retailers about the EU Environmental Foot-print pilot phaseCarole Dubois Pascal LégliseSteven van Hemelryck

15:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)16:00 Outlook on the 2nd wave of the

Environmental Footprint pilot phase – open discussionGuido Axmann

16:45 Wrap up 1st PEF World Summit Rasmus Priess

17:00 Farewell Cocktail

Day 2, Wednesday, 09 October 2013

08:00 Check-in and welcome coffee08:30 Reflections on Day 1

Jan Christian Polanía Giese08:45 Keynote: 40 years of Life Cycle

Assessment Jim Fava

09:00 Business Response Forum II ▶ LG Electronic’s experience in carbon footprinting and beyondJae Moon Lee

▶ Sharing experiences: Taiwan’s environmental impact indica-tor and communicationChien Jen-Shih

▶ Carbon footprinting in BurundiEmmanuel Ntakirutimana

▶ Carbon footprint - challenges and opportunities in East AfricaPaul Walakira

▶ Update on the Korean Carbon Footprint ProgrammHyunhee Lee

▶ The Green Signal Label - Im-plementing product sustain-ability in IndiaVivek Gilani (tbc)

10:00 LEAP – a sector-specific ap-proach to product environmental performance

Alison Watson 10:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)11:00 Open Space Dialogue 2

▶ Beyond GHG – further impact categories in corporate and Scope 3 accountingLaura Draucker

▶ Reducing carbon emissions in the supply chainChristian Dietrich

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Day 1, Tuesday, 08 October 2013

07:30 Social Activities: Run & Fun

08:30 Check-in and welcome coffee

09:30 Welcome

Chair: Guido AxmannPEF World Forum

Guido Axmann is co-founder and managing director of THEMA1, a Berlin-based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating social change. Current projects: PEF World Forum, Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany, Green Music Initiative, GRID EXPO, Grid Master Class and Renewables-Grid-Initiative. Each of THEMA1’s activities is defined by the strong belief of its’ founders that ‘Talk without action means nothing‘.

09:45 Introduction & Overview

Towards sustainable consumption and production: 5 years of facilitating inter-national dialogue on environmental footprinting

Jan Christian Polanía Giese & Rasmus Priess PEF World Forum

Rasmus and Jan Christian will introduce the PEF World Forum and provide an overview of the conference agenda and presentations and place them in the larger context of international developments in carbon and environmental footprinting.

Jan Christian Polanía Giese is actively following internationalcarbon and enviro-nental footprinting developments through his work in the PEF World Forum. He pro-grammed the 1st PEF World Summit and contributes to various environmental foot-print and product sustainability projects. Jan Christian has an academic background in environmental engineering with a focus on life cycle based sustainability assess-ment and recently graduated at the HPI School of Design Thinking in Potsdam.

Rasmus Priess is expert and facilitator at THEMA1 on climate change, carbon footprinting and supply chain management. He has founded and manages the PEF

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(formerly PCF) World Forum and the Product Carbon Footprint Project/Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germany. He has served on the Steering Commit-tee of the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol Product and Supply Chain Initiative and the German mirror committee for ISO 14067 “Carbon Footprint of Products”. Previously Rasmus worked as an independent consultant and facilitator on energy, climate change, and business development, particularly in emerging economy contexts.

10:15 The EU Environmental Footprint pilot phase and further steps Michele Galatola

European Commission, DG Environment

The European Commission released the Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint Guide together with the Communication “Building the Single Market for Green Products” in April 2013. The methodology can be applied to measure the environmental performance of products and organisations – for comparability and further simplification category and sector rules are required. In a pilot process those specifications are developed. Michele will present the results of the selection for the 1st wave of Product and Organisation Environmental Footprint pilot projects and describe the constitution of the Technical Secretariats. Furthermore he will describe opportunities to join and support the development process. Michele will finish his presentation with an outlook on the 2nd wave of pilot projects that are mainly fo-cused on the food/feed/drink sector.

Michele Galatola has a degree and post-doc in Environmental Sciences with about 13 years working experience in the area of waste and wastewater treatments, cleaner production, certification systems and, mainly, Life Cycle Thinking and Life Cycle Assessment. After having worked for several years in the Italian National Research Center for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment he has joined the European Commission in 2005. From 2005 till 2010 he has been working in the Directorate General for Research, being responsible for programming, launching and following a number of relevant research initiatives related to cleaner technolo-gies (mainly waste) and methodological developments in the area of Life Cycle Assessment. July 2010 he has moved to the Directorate General of Environment, becoming Leader of the Product Team. He and his team are responsible for some product-related policy tools (Ecolabel, Green Public Procurement) and are lead-ing the development and implementation of the now published EU Environmental Footprint methodologies.

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▶ The EU Food SCP Round Table: A prototype for efficient implementation of PEF at sector level?

Pascal GréverathEU Food SCP Round Table & Nestlé

The European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Round Table is a food-chain initiative co-chaired by the EU Commission whose vision is to promote a science-based, coherent approach to sustainable consumption and production in the food sector across Europe, while taking into account environmen-tal interactions at all stages of the food chain. A key principle is that environmental information communicated along the food chain, including to consumers, shall be scientifically reliable and consistent, understandable and not misleading, so as to support informed choice. More information on the Food SCP Round Table can be found in the front part of the companion.

Pascal Gréverath joined Nestlé in their international head-offices in Vevey (Swit-zerland) in 1993 as environmental adviser to develop and implement the Nestlé Environmental Management System throughout the company. After having held different positions with increasing responsibilities within Nestlé, he is currently As-sistant Vice-President, Head of Environmental Sustainability in charge of defining and co-ordinating the implementation of the environmental strategy of the leading nutrition, health and wellness company worldwide. Environmental sustainability is a key component of Nestlé creating shared value which focuses primarily on nutrition, water and rural development.In addition, he has been elected as chairman of the Environmental Sustainability Committee of FoodDrinkEurope who represents the European food and drink industry.He is also co-chairing the European Food Sustainable Consumption and Produc-tion Round Table Steering Committee, on behalf of the European food supply chain together with the European Commission.

▶ Brief intervention on methodological issues in environmental footprinting

Rana PantEuropean Commission, DG Joint Research Center

Rana will provide assistance in methodological questions on product and organisa-tion environmental footprinting. He will depict the relation between the product and the organisation footprint. Furthermore Rana will explain how the development of category and sector rules can lead to simplification of the application of the method-ologies while keeping results relevant.

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Rana Pant is an environmental engineer by training and holds a PhD in engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology. Before joining the European Com-mission in June 2008 he worked for over 8 years with a multinational consumer goods company on topics related to integrated waste management and on LCA. From 2005 until April 2008 he chaired the LCA Steering Committee of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, Europe), the leading scientific organisation in the LCA area. Since Rana Pant joined the European Commission in the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), he has taken over responsibilities related to solid waste and Life Cycle Think-ing, Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA), the European Platform on LCA (EPLCA), the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook and the Envi-ronmental Footprint for products and organisations.

11:15 Meet & Greet (coffee)

11:45 The Evolution of product sustainability

Euan MurrayThe Sustainability Consortium

In the session, Euan will start with a quick update on The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) activities worldwide. He will discuss how TSC sits alongside other sustain-ability initiatives, including planned and future collaborations between the European Commission and TSC. His presentation will close with a review of future activities and developments.

Euan Murray leads the strategic development of The Sustainability Consortium to ensure it continues to grow to meet its mission. His role covers internationaliza-tion, new products and services, and alternative funding models. Euan has advised business leaders on the strategic risks and opportunities posed by sustainability and climate change. This work has covered corporate strategy, operational development, supply chain management, and customer engagement. He is a regular confer-ence speaker and press commentator on the business and consumer response to climate change. When he served as Director of Footprinting at the Carbon Trust, Euan led the work on product carbon footprinting and carbon labelling. He devel-oped the original Carbon Trust footprinting methodology that became PAS2050, the first global standard in this area. He also pioneered the Carbon Trust work with companies, footprinting more than 5,000 products worth $4.5Bn in North and South America, Africa, China, Australasia and Europe. Euan has a background in strategy consulting and financial services. He holds a BA in Natural Sciences and an MSc. in Materials Sciences and Metallurgy from Cambridge University, UK.

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12:15 A.I.S.E. sustainability strategy and EU Product Environmental Footprint activi-ties

Valérie SéjournéA.I.S.E.

A.I.S.E. is the official body for the Detergents and maintenance products industry in Europe and represents more than 900 companies. It has a long tradition of proac-tive work to drive sustainability in the sector, notably through the A.I.S.E. Charter for Sustainable Cleaning, developed in 2005 - this scheme counts more than 200 companies committed and is addressing, from a life cycle basis, sustainable production, design and consumption. In her presentation Valerie will highlight the recent development of “Product Category Rules”, called “Advanced Sustainability Profiles,” which are fully in the spirit of the EU PEF work, and are available already for a number of product categories. Together with a consortium of 8 companies for liquid laundry detergents and bathroom trigger spray cleaners, A.I.S.E. has applied to the EU call for pilot projects. A number of key interested stakeholders have also expressed interest in joining the A.I.S.E. pilot and latest updates will be provided at the 1st PEF World Summit.

Valérie Séjourné started a career with Unilever in the UK in 1994, with a back-ground in marketing and communication. After some time with the French Energy and Environment Agency in Lyon (France, 1995-1997) as Communications Man-ager, she joined A.I.S.E. (the International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance products) in 1997 in Brussels, where she holds the position of Director Communications & Sustainability. She is, among other topics, in charge of several voluntary projects in the fields of sustainable production and consumption and works in close interaction with members and external stakeholders.

12:30 Country Response Forum

▶ Product Environmental Footprint - opportunities and challenges

Ulf Jaeckel German Federal Ministry of Environment

In the early 1990s the German Government started to use Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) in their environmental policy. The most discussed example was the LCA on drink packaging which lead to requirements in the German Packing Ordinance. At that time already, a multi-criteria approach covering the full life cycle of a product was fol-

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lowed. The PEF approach shares some of the same goals and principles, combined with a high ambition. There are a number of opportunities but also some significant challenges linked to the PEF approach. The German Federal Ministry for the Envi-ronment will follow closely the pilot phase and offers to contribute to the develop-ment of PEFCR and communication instruments.

Ulf Jaeckel is head of division for product policy and consumer affairs at the Fed-eral Ministry for the Environment in Germany. His division is dealing with sustain-able consumption issues, standard setting, green public procurement, ecodesign, labelling, LCA, standardisation etc. He is representing the German Government in several national and international fora.

▶ Perspectives from the environmental labelling pilot phase

Sylvain ChevassusFrench Ministry for Sustainable Development

France conducted a one-year national experimentation on consumer product environmental information in 2011-2012 in which 168 companies participated. An evaluation was made and a governmental report is to be sent to the Parliament, on the basis of which the follow-up will be discussed. In the meantime, since 2008 the ADEME-AFNOR stakeholder Platform has been developing a general environmental footprinting methodology (BPX 30-323) and product category rules (PCR) – twenty three PCRs have been adopted to date. ADEME is also constructing a public ge-neric product life-cycle database.Other developments include the upcoming first implementation measure – on construction products – and the need to further align our initiatives with the EU one. We are also working with international developments (Rio +20 “10 YFP”, UNEP international dialogue, INPSI etc.).

Sylvain Chevassus has been working on sustainable consumption and production policy at the French Sustainable Development Ministry since 2008, after many years in various Brussels based organisations (European Environ-mental Bureau, Council of European Municipalities and Regions). His more particular mission is to estab-lish links between EU/international and national policy, notably on environmental footprint issues.

▶ UK government perspectives

Alice BaverstockDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK

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A very brief summary of some UK Government views on the Commission’s environ-mental footprinting methods for products and organisations, and thoughts on how they will engage with the Commission’s piloting process.

Alice Baverstock is a team leader at Defra, the UK Environment Ministry. She is the UK policy lead on environmental footprinting and environmental labelling and is also responsible for policy on sustainable palm oil and sustainable clothing. Defra is a key funder of WRAP, the organisation which runs the UK Product Sustainability Forum, and it was following attendance at a previous PEF World Forum meeting that Alice encouraged WRAP to look further into collaborating with international environmental footprinting initiatives. Alice has worked in UK national government for 15 years on a range of issues including waste management licensing, health and safety, the London Mayoral and Assembly elections and the EU Water Framework Directive.

▶ Austria’s perspective on the EU environmental footprint initiative

Hanna SchreiberEnvironment Agency Austria

Environment Agency Austria supports the holistic approach of the Environmental Footprinting Initiative. Recent developments show that GHG-management alone will not lead to an ultimate solution. Therefore further focus beyond GHG is necessary to deal with environmental issues. Environment Agency Austria also recognized the ad-vantage of “one method above many” and the harmonization between EU member countries for a better and common understanding in LCA projects. Therefore the agency supports the Environmental Footprint Initiative and is interested in taking an active part within the pilot phase.

Hanna Schreiber is an expert on Life Cycle Assessment at Environmental Agency Austria. She graduated in Forestry and Environmental Science (2010), as well as in Sustainable resource use, Waste management and Environ-mental technologies (2012). Besides carrying out complete LCAs in external and internal projects, she is responsible for maintenance and updating of the LCA database GEMIS- Austria (Global Emissions Model for Integrated Systems).

▶ Current status of Japanese LCA communication programs and related activities

Masayuki KanzakiJEMAI, Japan

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Quantification and communication of environmental aspects for various products have been developed in Japan, where applications of the JEMAI’s programs, the Eco-Leaf and CFP program, become diversified depending on purpose of each industrial sector. Currently, we are in the 1st year of the middle term plan for both programs, which includes unification of the JEMAI’s programs, sector specific pro-motion, and international harmonization.

Masayuki Kanzaki is manager of the LCA center of Japan’s Environmental Man-agement Association for the Industry (JEMAI), where activities including secretariat of the LCA society of Japan, providing LCA software (MiLCA) or DB, and supporting industries regarding LCA quantification and communication. He previously engaged in development and operation of the CFP communication program and Eco-Leaf Type III program. As an expert of the Japan External Trade Organization he joined international projects on the establishment of institutional LCA frameworks in several Asian countries.

▶ PCF Pilot Project from Quebec – latest updates

Sophie FallahaCIRAIG, Canada

Recent developments in PCF have shown positive results regarding the harmoni-zation of methodologies. The challenge now remains to provide enough specificity to enable comparison through the development and use of PCRs. To explore this issue, the government of Québec conducted a 1-year pilot project on the carbon footprint of products. Using the GHG Protocol Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard (GHG Protocol) as a methodology framework, the pilot project studied and compared different PCRs and tested different levels of interpretation to assess result reproducibility and the range of result variation, if any. The pilot project also aimed to put forward recommendations regarding PCR development and align-ment. In order to address the issue of PCF verification, the pilot explored a verifica-tion scheme combining critical review and source data auditing. The objective was to assess the level of assurance that can be attained as well as the overall audit-ability of scope 3 emissions. Results showed significant differences when assessing the reproducibility of PCF calculations. This indicates a need for a stronger degree of prescription from methodologies, a harmonization of requirements by product categories regarding the use of high quality secondary data sources, as well as stronger requirements regarding PCF third party verification.

Sophie Fallaha is Senior analyst at CIRAIG and holds a Bachelor degree in chemical engineering. She completed her graduate studies at CIRAIG, where her research focused on the integration of life cycle thinking to greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting methodologies. Environmental consultant in Paris (BIO IS) and then in

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Montreal (Sanexen), she conducted various projects focusing on life cycle as-sessment and greenhouse gas accounting. Back at CIRAIG since 2011, she is the project manager of the Carbon Footprint Pilot Project from Quebec government at CIRAIG. Since May 2013, her duties are twofold as she is also in charge of the coor-dination of a research unit of CIRAIG: the International Life Cycle Chair. The Chair’s mission merges knowledge development and transfer. With a focus on responsible production, consumption and governance, it aims to develop, interpret and integrate the knowledge and tools to implement life cycle thinking.

13:30 Network Lunch

14:30 Walk & Talk (+ email time)

15:00 Open Space Dialogue 1

▶ International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives – open workshop

The workshop will focus on differences in hotspot analysis approaches and rep-resents a first step of ongoing outreach activities intended to arrive at a common understanding of key elements for conducting hotspot analysis on a global level. Organized by the International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives (INPSI) the workshop will be chaired by Philip Strothmann.More information on INPSI can be found in the front part of the companion.

Philip StrothmannUNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

Philip Strothmann is a freelancing environmental consultant. He is currently working with the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and the International Network of Product Sustainability Initiatives on a broad range of issues relating to life cycle methodologies and product sustainability criteria. Previously, Philip has worked for the ISO TC 207 Stakeholder Forum and the secretariat of UNEP’s International Resource Panel. Before becoming self-employed, he worked for Impuls – Agentur für angewandte Utopien on a variety of issues related to life cycle methodologies and product sustainability aspects. Philip holds a Bachelors degree in politics from the University of Bremen and a Masters degree in public and private environmental management from the Free University of Berlin.

Mark BarthelWRAP, UK

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Mark Barthel is a special adviser to the board at WRAP and head of design for the organisation, covering sustainable product design, resource efficient industrial de-sign and engineering and sustainable design in the built environment. Mark is also WRAP’s lead for the Product Sustainability Forum, for which WRAP provides the secretariat, and which involves a collaboration of over 80 organisations interested in working together to quantify, reduce and communicate the environmental impacts of everyday products. Mark also supports the development and implementation of sustainability strategy of major UK retailers and international food and drink brand-owners.

Euan Murray | TSC(see above)

Jim FavaUNEP/SETAC LCI & PE International

Jim Fava is currently co-chair of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and a Senior Director at PE INTERNATIONAL. He is a leader in the development of best busi-ness practices, techniques, tools (one is LCA) and processes that help companies achieve long term business success and leadership by using sustainability knowl-edge as a catalyst and innovator for improvement. He is one of the founders of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative and the SETAC LCA Advisory Group, headed the U.S. delegation in the development of ISO LCA standards, and served on the WRI/WBCSD Steering Committee for the Scope 3 and Product GHG Protocol ef-forts. For nearly 20 years, he has directed (and founded) the Product Sustainability Roundtable whose mission is to improve the performance of member companies by providing support and benchmarking and best practice advice to their product-ori-ented programs. He received a PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is regularly invited to speak at engagements throughout the world.

Rasmus Priess | PEF World Forum(see above)

▶ Avoided emissions through innovative products

Annemarie Kerkhof Ecofys

Ecofys has supported companies from various sectors in accounting their avoided emissions. Ecofys in cooperation with WWF, Utrecht University and a number of

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leading companies, took the initiative to inventory the main methodological issues related to the calculation and communication of emission reductions enabled by innovative products. In a workshop Annemarie will address the issue how avoided emissions can be communicated by companies from various sectors in a credible and comparable way. The workshop will be complemented with real business cases.

Annemarie Kerkhof is a Senior Consultant at Ecofys with in-depth knowledge of carbon and environmental footprinting. She supported the EU in the pilot test on the product and organization environmental footprint methods in 2011-2012. Recently, she helped the chemical industry in developing guidelines for accounting and report-ing avoided emissions. This initiative took place under the leadership of WBCSD and ICCA.

Marga BlomRoyal KPN

Marga Blom is Director Energy Management of Royal KPN and responsible for all aspects on Energy, including sourcing, innovation, and sustainability. In 2011 KPN started collaborating with the World Wildlife Fund and joined the Climate Savers Program to lessen the impact on the climate.

Nicola PaczkowskiBASF

Nicola Paczkowski is a Senior Manager Sustainability Evaluation at BASF SE and has more than 14 years of experience in Research & Development, Sustainability and Life Cycle Assessment. BASF has been a leading working group member in the WBCSD chemical sector projects on developing sector guidelines for GHG emis-sions accounting and reporting.

▶ Sector Initiatives and the EU Environmental Footprint process – a discus-sion

A workshop that in the first place should clarify the relation between the EU Environ-mentaI Footprint process and sector initiatives (existing and new ones). Including the following questions:•What sector initiatives are prioritized by the EC and why?•What is the end objective of sector approaches for the PEF/OEF initiative?•How does the EC envision the development of sector guides in support of the

PEF/OEF methodologies?•What sector-based initiatives are currently going on that should be of interest to

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The dialogue could focus on how to scale up sector initiatives that support the PEF/OEF objectives – recognizing the limited resources of the EC. Furthermore it could identifytheconditionsneededtogetscale(i.e.mutualrecognitionofstandards;modularity of approaches so they are shared across sectors). The workshop will be hosted by Andrea Brown.

Andrea BrownWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development

Andrea Brown joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development in June 2008 where she leads WBCSD’s work with the chemical sector. She previ-ously managed WBCSD’s work on the GHG Protocol in partnership with the World Resources Institute. Prior to joining the WBCSD she worked on international, and climate and energy policy issues for the Alberta government in Canada, and the Canadian Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Michele Galatola | European Commission, DG Environment(see above)

Rana Pant | European Commission, DG JRC(see above)

Pascal Gréverath | EU Food SCP Round Table & Nestlé(see above)

Guido Axmann | PEF World Forum (see above)

16:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)

17:00 Business Response Forum I

▶ Heineken’s practical approach to carbon footprinting

Paul BruijnHeineken

Heineken’s sustainability programme focuses on the relevant life cycle stages of our product - from barley to bar. The carbon footprint of each stage has been calculated: agricultural ingredients, the malting process, beverage production, production of packaging materials, distribution and cooling of beverages before consumption.

PAS 2050 and GRI guidance documents were used to define scope, boundaries and calculation methodology (recycling). Whilst the collection of data from our main operating companies and suppliers worldwide was quite a challenge, the reward was that we now know the life cycle “hot spots” per country of production. Although our practical approach is well in line with current developments, we strive for and contribute to further harmonization of methodologies, for example in the beverage industry environmental round table (BIER). The main conclusions of our work will be presented. In addition the key learnings of carbon footprinting in real life (methodol ogy, data collection, quality) will be discussed.

Paul Bruijn is responsible for the Carbon Footprinting work for Heineken world-wide. He has been involved in mapping the carbon footprint of 24 operating compa-nies in detail. Important focus areas for improvement are packaging materials and beer cooling.

▶ Industry approach to apparel LCAs

Desirae EarlyLevi Strauss

Levi Strauss (LS&Co.) developed in-house capabilities and a method to complete comparable LCAs in 2009, called E-valuate. This method allows LS&Co. to extract directional results from comparisons between products or product components, yielding a better understanding of how to improve product performance. LS&Co. recently shifted towards developing industry standards to measure product impacts through engaging with the Sustainability Apparel Coalition to develop a PCR for apparel categories. This approach will help with major challenges LS&Co. faced in scaling LCAs to a broader set of products, including data availability, supplier collec-tion methods, and a standard means of communication.

Desirae Early manages the development of Levi Strauss & Co.’s sustainability strat-egy, including integrating business efforts to improve products and engaging con-sumers to improve sustainability performance. She also leads LS&Co.’s efforts to complete product lifecycle assessment methods and develop industry standards for apparel LCAs. Previously, Desirae worked on business energy efficiency programs at a California utility company. Desirae holds a B.S. in Environmental Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and is an M.B.A. candidate at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

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▶ Challenges of product environmental footprinting in a global market

Kristof Peerens3M

Product Environmental Footprinting is proving to be a valuable environmental trans-parency and decision-making tool, driven by an ever-increasing demand from indus-try, consumers, regulators and other stakeholders around the world. However, due to the number and variety of approaches and options currently available and in use, it is not straightforward to communicate the environmental properties of products or services. Now more than ever before, a globally consistent approach in methodol-ogy, standard and communication is needed to enable companies to improve the communication of product sustainability performance. In this presentation, 3M will show how different standards can be a barrier on consistent communication, and how the European Commission’s Environmental Footprint initiative could help solve today’s difficulties.

Kristof Peerens started working for 3M Belgium as Toxicology & Environmental Coordinator in 2004, ensuring regulatory compliance of all 3M products placed on the Belgian market. He extended these responsibilities by moving to 3M UK & Ire-land in 2006, as Product Environment, Health, Safety & Regulatory Group Leader. Returned to 3M Europe (now 3M Belgium) in 2010 as Product EHS&R Specialist, Sustainability to become a member of the European Sustainability Centre of Exper-tise. In this role, the main focus is on developing European strategies on Product Environmental Footprinting, eco-labelling, environmental marketing claims etc.

▶ Questioning the comparison utility of PEFs

Terry ThieleLubrizol Corporation

Product category environmental criteria assume that we are comparing equivalent performance baskets. However, every product manufacturer seeks to distinguish his/her products from competing products. Precious few consumer products com-pete solely on price, they sell different performance attributes. That being the case, how does one fairly assess the environmental merits of product A (delivering per-formance attributes M, N, O, P) versus product B (delivering performance attributes M, N, Q, R)? How much performance justifies how much environmental burden? Corporate environmental footprints repeat this problem even act a per-unit-of-output measure since the units of output contain the exact same product performance is-sue. How can one compare the corporation producing product A versus the corpora-tion producing product B where their performance attributes differ?

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Terry Thiele does environmental strategic planning and policy advocacy. He leads Lubrizol’s LCA activities and sits on CEFIC’s LCA Taskforce and the American Chemistry Council’s Value Chain Outreach committee. Terry was North American environmental coordinator for AB Electrolux and handled legislative and regulatory matters for General Electric. He has served in the U.S. Treasury, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Executive Office of the President. He is a graduate of Princeton University, the New York University School of Law and the National War College.

▶ Environmental footprinting from the perspective of a packaging producer

Sylviane ArmagnacqSmurfit Kappa

Smurfit Kappa is continuously working to reduce the environmental impact of all its processes and activities. This includes providing packaging solutions that also improve the environmental footprint of their customers, e.g. by minimizing product wastage and optimizing distribution and transportation requirements. Sylviane will explain the role that PEF can play in this strategy.

Sylviane Armagnacq is environment manager at Smurfit Kappa Group and respon-sible for the development and management of the company’s own environmental database designed for all operations, worldwide. Lead of the team in charge of environmental footprinting of papers and packaging.

Introduction to the Sustainability strategy and activities of AkzoNobel

Carmen AlvaradoAkzoNobel

AkzoNobel has a vast experience on sustainability and product ecofootprinting. Carmen will focus in her presentation on the challenges and opportunities of the environmental footprint initiative. She will outline the role AkzoNobel will play in the pilot phase and describe additional approaches to product sustainability.

Carmen Alvarado Ascencio is Senior Sustainability Specialist at AkzoNobel and has more than ten years of experience as an LCA consultant. A few of her projects involved extensive data collection and compilation into databases, which were deliv-ered to the client. Carmen has participated in several EU projects involving consortia of several companies and research institutes. Her research field encompasses life cycle assessment of products with particular focus on the social aspects and com-

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munication. Carmen is also active in the field of Life Cycle Management, helping companies select and implement tools towards sustainability. Carmen is Biochemi-cal engineer and holds a MSc. in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University (Sweden).

▶ A PEFCR for electricity generated from renewable sources – the example of the photovoltaic industry

Andreas WadeFirst Solar

The joint development and international endorsement of a standardized methodol-ogy for the environmental assessment of renewable energy generation technologies presents an excellent opportunity to re-confirm the socio-economic and environ-mental profile for these technologies which are increasingly important in the global generation mix. Setting a level playing field for the assessment of electricity genera-tion will be an important aspect for virtually all products and services which utilize electricity. The example of photovoltaic electricity generation will provide insights into the complexities of such an assessment as well as providing an overview on the possibilities of a multi-dimensional impact assessment and the communication of the results with a broad range of stakeholders. This presentation will provide an overview on the application as well as the setup of the project.

Andreas Wade is environmental process engineer by education and started his pro-fessional career with UNESCO as associate expert on recycling in the cluster office for the GCC in Doha, Qatar. Next steps in his career included the classical energy sector, where he worked in the field of energy efficiency improvements, emission reduction and CO2 mitigation for Shell Exploration and Production in Europe. Before joining First Solar as Director Sustainability, he was designing and implementing the life cycle management strategy for Q-Cells, another PV manufacturer. As Director Sustainability at First Solar, he has been managing the sustainability program of the company for 3 years. As Director Technical Relations and Public Affairs Europe, he is supporting the long term business development and market transformation in Europe towards sustainable PV energy generation. He is President of the International Thin-Film Solar Industry Association (PVthin) and elected Chair of the Sustainable Development Working Group of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA). He is also leading the Joint Renewable Energy Working Group of the German Engi-neering Association (VDI) and the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE) in Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany).

18:00 Wrap up Day 1

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18:30 Social Activities: Run & Fun

19:30 Aperitif & Dinner (Launch of INPSI Declaration)

Day 2, Wednesday, 09 October 2013

07:00 Social Activities: Run & Fun

08:00 Check-in and welcome coffee

08:30 Reflections on Day 1

Jan Christian Polanía Giese | PEF World Forum(see above)

08:45 Keynote: 40 years of Life Cycle Assessment – From Coca Cola to

Environmental Footprinting and Beyond

Jim FavaUNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative & PE International

A variety of case studies involving use of (or failure to use) life cycle information over the past several decades, we can see the potential for life cycle approaches to help provide insights and information to contribute to the mitigation of such nega-tive outcomes, and identify opportunities for improvements. Increased expectations from governments (e.g. EU, France), retail, building and construction, automotive, and electronic sectors have pushed the demand for life cycle information in decision making to its tipping point. Moreover, the supply chain’s capacity to complete and interpret the results of life cycle information using software, data, and other resourc-es has increased. This keynote describes important developments of the last forty years that serve as illustrative evidence of a step-change that is in the works to fully integrate life cycle information into decision making.

Jim Fava (see above)

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09:00 Business Response Forum II

▶ LG Electronic’s experience in carbon footprinting and beyond

Jae Moon Lee LG Electronics

Since 2002, LGE has worked to quantify the environmental impacts of its prod-uct categories throughout their life cycles and to reduce their carbon footprint. In 2011, the company built the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database for eight products (TV, monitor, washing machine, refrigerator, LED, solar panel, mobile phone and air conditioning system). In 2012 based on the LCI database already built, 48 of LGE products acquired the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Certificate, and 10 of LGE products received Low Carbon Product Certificate awarded to products that produce less GHG emissions compared to existing products and requirements. Also in USA, LGE acquired the CarbonFree® certification for 15 of its products, which raised the total number of certified product models to 32. Based on the results of the LCA, since 2012 LGE identifies environmentally vulnerable areas in the product life cycle and determines appropriate measures, for example raw material replacement and energy efficiency improvement (e.g. Climatop Label in Switzerland and LCIE in France).

Jae Moon Lee is employed at LG Electronics in the Green Strategy Department since April 2010. He studied at the University of Technology Berlin and holds a doc-tor in engineering.

▶ Sharing experiences of practice implemented by quantification of Taiwan’s environmental impact indicator and communication

Chien Jen-ShihTaiwan Environmental Management Association (TEMA)

One of the most important issues for Taiwan is how to find a practical solution that can achieve the goal of sustainable development through participation and under-standing of the environmental issues. This presentation aims at sharing the progress of the execution and implementation of Taiwan Environment Impact Indicator, including the strategies and methods undertaken by the government and the private sectors and its influence. Based on our experience in the establishment and promo-tion of the carbon footprint calculation system, we will also introduce the process in promoting the carbon footprint system, the resources provided by the government

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and the promotion means in Taiwan. More than fifty corporates have participated in the Carbon Footprint project, in which 160 products have been accredited with the Carbon Footprint certificate. We will share our experience in the inter-departmental cooperation in the governmental units, the issues and future development of the Carbon Footprint Calculation System as well as our plan in expanding the project by setting up an Asian Carbon Footprint Network. Last but not the least, TEMA will pro-vide our perspectives with regard to the impact on the communication and quantified methods in global environmental issues due to the carbon footprint development in Europe and its potential development in becoming a focus in environmental issues.

Chien-Jen Shih is a registered professional engineer of Taiwan, Republic of China and has over 25 years experience in design and operational for wastewater treat-ment plant and solid waste treatment, reuse and recycle facilities. Currently he works for Taiwan Environmental Management Association (TEMA) as Secretary General. TEMA focuses on government’s projects related to environmental educa-tion, regulations review, and greenhouse gas emission management. TEMA also ex-ecutes Taiwan EPA’s carbon label verification work and guideline of product carbon footprint calculations since 2010.

▶ Carbon footprinting in Burundi

Emmanuel NtakirutimanaBurundi Association of Manufacturers (AIB)

The alarming report from World bank on Burundi stated increased Carbon dioxide emissions (179.68 in 2008). This is what, since then, awaked Emmanuel’s interest and led him to come in carbon footprint. However, Burundi coffee is the first primary export that accounts for 90% of foreign exchange earnings along with tea. While the government demonstrates good will of privatising coffee wash stations, the practices of refining coffee are increasingly contributing to scale up carbon emissions.Most of the population lives of agriculture and production enterprises, including coffee refine-ment wash stations, but lacks relevant information pertaining carbon footprinting. Applying PEF standards will hopefully contribute to enhanc the quality of environ-mental protection and quality assured products that can generate more earnings. Such standards will not only be applied to coffee but also to fruits, sugar and cotton. This is attained and sustained as the government is willing to support initiatives for environmental protection under the Green economy agenda.

Emmanuel Ntakirutimana is a scholar passionate with environmental research. Af-ter his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Bujumbura Tanganyika Lake Universi-ty, he decided to meet this passion and started an ongoing Community Development Master’Degree at Hope Africa University Burundi chapter. While he was appointed Managing Director from civil society background 3 years ago, he joined an USA

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based online MBA in 2013. His industry-led activism made him working hard and he was elected member of Burundi Association of Manufacturers in 2012.

▶ Carbon footprint - challenges and opportunities in East Africa

Paul WalakiraUganda National Bureau of Standards

Through the programmes Trade Promotion through Standardisation, Swedish Standards Institute together with its local partners is supporting carbon footprint pilots on a number of products in East Africa, South and South East Asia. So far, rough assessments have been made on carbon footprint, for example two tea producers in Rwanda and one coffee producer in Burundi. Carbon footprint assess-ments are also under way in Uganda. The assessments are not complete but the current status of these assessments shows various opportunities and challenges and give an indication of the future work.

Paul Walakira holds a Masters degree in Environment and Natural Resources and a Bachelors degree in Chemistry, with over 10 years of experience in standardisa-tion activities. He is currently working with the Uganda National Bureau of Stand-ards as Head of the Chemicals and Consumer Products Standards Division. He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards (UNFSS) and secretary of the national mirror committee of ISO/TC 207. He is also a research and university instructor with Kyambogo University, one of the leading national Universities in Uganda, where he teaches Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Impact Assessment.

Update on the Korean Carbon Footprint Programm - What is next?”

Hyunhee LeeKorea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI)

Hyunhee will provide a brief introduction of KEITI and present the progress of the Korean carbon footprint labelling. Additionally he will refer to update issues such as the introduction and operation of “System certification”. At last Hyunhee will describe international collaborations for carbon footprint labeling – now and in the future.

Hyunhee Lee is a researcher of the carbon management team in KEITI. The team is currently dealing mainly with environmental and carbon footprint certification in Korea. She is in charge of operating the certification process and related several programs such as educations and projects for supporting companies to join the

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program. She will present current status and updated issues about Korean carbon footprint labeling.

▶ The Green Signal Label – Implementing product sustainability in India

Vivek Gilani (tbc)Green Signal

The Green Signal (TGS) Ecolabel was launched in June 2011 at the Indian Institute of Management Ahemdabad. It is currently India’s only comprehensive third-party sustainability Ecolabel. Greensignal has developed methodologies for a broad range of goods and services like hotels, events, retail stores, fuel additives or textile manufacturing. In his presentation Vivek will point out the special qualities of TGS compared to other ecolabels. For instance, the label recognizes that diverse climatic zones influence building energy consumption of hotels and hence only peers within India’s climatic zones can be compared. Relative to organic food & textile certifica-tions, the methodologies do not just consider organic attributes of the processes but also environmental, social and economic sustainability parameters including GHG emissions, water, energy, waste and material management.

Vivek Gilani is an Environmental Engineer with expertise in greenhouse gas emis-sions and carbon Enterprise Resource Planning. Vivek co-founded No2CO2, the India-specific carbon footprint calculation and minimisation body. More recently, he co-founded the ‘The Green Signal’ together with the Indian Institute of Management and the Center for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship. This is the first func-tional eco-labelling body in India and as part of this project, Vivek has developed an India-specific greenhouse gas database containing 2300 emission factors compliant with 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change guidelines.

10:00 LEAP – a sector-specific approach to product environmental performance

Alison WatsonLivestock Environmental Assessment Performance (LEAP) Partnership

The Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership is developing internationally agreed guidance to measure the environmental perfor-mance of livestock supply chains. This includes developing metrics on carbon, biodi-versity and water-related performance. Currently, many different methods are being used to assess the environmental impacts and performance of livestock products e.g. poultry, beef and milk. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to compare results and set priorities for continuous improvement. With increasing demands in

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the marketplace for more sustainable products there is also the risk that debates about how sustainability is measured start to detract from the task of driving real improvement of environmental performance. And there is the danger that labeling or private standards based on poorly developed metrics could create unfair barriers to trade. The urgent need for a coordinated global approach based on international best practice led the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and founding partners to initiate LEAP. LEAP is now working on methodology and guidance development for measuring performance across goat, sheep, animal feeds and poultry supply chains as well as biodiversity and nutrient efficiency meas-urement research. Work on large ruminants (e.g. dairy, beef) and pigs will begin shortly. The strength of LEAP is its international partnership approach to developing methodologies that are relevant and robust for the livestock sector to measure and improve environment product performance.

Alison Watson is the Manager of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership. LEAP is a multi-stakeholder international partner-ship made up of governments, industry and civil society organizations, with its sec-retariat based at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The aim of LEAP is to develop harmonized sector specific guidance and methodolo-gies for measuring the environmental performance of livestock supply chains. Alison is a lawyer by training and has worked previously for the New Zealand Government as a senior policy analyst where she was responsible for developing the New Zea-land Greenhouse Footprint Strategy for the Land-based Primary Sectors. She has degrees in Chemistry and Law, with a Masters in International Environmental Law and is currently completing her PhD in Business Administration.

10:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)

11:00 Open Space Dialogue 2

▶ Beyond GHG – further impact categories in corporate and Scope 3 accounting

Laura DrauckerWBCSD/WRI GHG Protocol

What is the difference between organizational, corporate, and product-level account-ing? Can the GHG Protocol scope 1, 2, and 3 framework be utilized for multi-impact corporate inventories? What are the benefits of a common framework? These are the questions that will be discussed during our open space dialog going beyond GHGs – using the GHG Protocol Scope 1, 2, and 3 as a common framework for multi-impact corporate inventories. We rely on our environment for the resources we need to live, work, and prosper. Quantifying and ultimately reducing the impacts that a company’s activities have on all aspects of the environment makes good busi-

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ness sense. However, companies can be overwhelmed by too much information, conflicting standards, and unfair comparisons. Standard and guidance developers, as well as reporting programs, need to work together to provide the best tools to en-able action by companies without overburdening them. Laura Draucker will present some thoughts on the relationship between organizational, corporate, and product-level accounting, as well as research on how the GHG Protocol framework can be used for multi-impact assessments. Other speakers TBD, and there will be time for discussion and peer-exchange.

Laura Draucker is a Senior Associate with the Climate and Energy Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI). She is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and works to develop standards, guidance, and calculation tools that enable businesses and governments to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Laura is currently leading the scoping of a new standard on quantifying the positive impacts of goods and services, and researching how the corporate accounting framework can be used for multi-impact assessments. Laura also serves as WRI’s sustainabil-ity manager, where she leads the sustainability initiative to ensure that WRI’s own environmental footprint is the best reflection of our goals and mission. WRI is a non-governmental organization that goes beyond research to put ideas into action, working globally with governments, business, and civil society to build transformative solutions that protect the earth and improve people’s lives.

▶ Reducing carbon emissions in the supply chain

Christian DietrichSystain

The Carbon Performance Improvement Initiative (CPI2) is an initiative of textile and footwear retailers aiming to reduce carbon emissions in their supply chains. The initiative has developed a tool that supports factories to systematically identify areas where energy can be saved and thus CO2 emissions be reduced. The tool provides concrete and factory specific guidance for improvement including supportive docu-ments and case studies. It also allows benchmarking through a rating system. The focus of CPI2 is on supporting factories in an ongoing improvement process. CPI2 allows retailers to set goals for carbon reduction and to identify the performance of their suppliers and make this part of their sourcing decisions. The bottom-up and action driven approach is suitable to address further environmental issues in the future to improve the overall environmental performance of the supply chain. CPI2 is already successfully implemented in more than 300 factories worldwide

Christian Dietrich joined Systain Consulting in Hamburg in 2011 as a Director for Environmental Sustainability. He is the responsible project manager for the develop-ment of the CPI2 initiative. Christian holds a Diploma in Engineering and has a long

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track record in environmental sustainability consulting. Before joining the team at Systain, Christian was Managing Director at a London based consulting firm.

▶ How does a business with 1000´s of product lines measure and monitor the footprint of its supply chain without prohibitive costs?

Craig SimmonsBest Foot Forward

For more than 20 years life cycle assessment has struggled to take off within busi-nesses at a scale. The reasons for this range from the detailed complexity associ-ated with data collection and analysis to the simple value question of how going through the process will benefit the company. Product Portfolio Footprinting (PPF) responds to this by combining the technical robustness of existing business intel-ligence with a methodology that is robust, credible and scalable for the entire busi-ness. Building from a component-based view of products, PPF enables businesses to rapidly model their value chain from the bottom up through an efficient model that aligns to recognised product footprinting standards (e.g. GHG Protocol Product Standard). This proven method has been applied within major business, such as Tesco and Crown Paints, where more than 70,000 products have had their full life cycle impacts assessed in less than 5 months from concept to results. Product Environmental Footprinting provides the guidance and basis for carrying out PPF in practice, but the initial focus of the method centres on hotspots to enable the quick identification of areas that warrant follow up and more detailed analysis. This hybrid approach is reduction orientated and takes the benefits of both practices and deliv-ers significant value compared to traditional full product assessment analyses.

Craig Simmons is co-founder of BFF and is an internationally recognised expert in the field of environmental accounting. He is a member of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute and sits on the Global Footprint Network Standards Committee, and is an advisor to the WRI/WBCSD on the GHG Reporting Protocol for products which he co-authored. He is author of numerous technical and popular articles on sustainability, and co-authored best-selling Sharing Nature’s Interest, ecological footprints as an indicator of sustainability and RIBA award winning The ZEDBook: Solutions for a Shrinking World. As Technical Director, Craig is responsible for all technical analysis work completed by BFF staff and leads weekly technical meet-ings and periodic training sessions with the analyst team. He also leads on projects including for LOCOG and the European Commission, and maintains close guidance on the format and capabilities of Footprinter, development. Craig designed, and is responsible for, BFF’s on-going data management using the propriety EcoIndex database containing over 100 000 emissions factors. He combines his technical abilities with strong communication skills, and is the author and lead tutor on the Carbon and Ecological Footprint Masterclasses.

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▶ Measuring the full sustainabilty performance of material & products

Kevin BradySustainability Consultant

Life cycle based concepts and tools have greatly advanced our ability to measure key environmental performance and resource consumption aspects of products and materials. The life cycle approach has been integrated into the PEF methodology, as well as other efforts such as the work of The Sustainability Consortium. In addition to current environmental and resource performance aspects there are a number of other information fields that should be considered when evaluating sustainability:• the sustainability of the resource base the materials come from •social performance aspects • life cycle costs (including externalities)•community and worker human health and ecotoxicity aspects•and finally the technical and quality aspects of the materials and products

In the future a full sustainability evaluation of materials and products will incorporate data on all of these fields. This workshop will explore and discuss what are the main sources of data, primary tools, leading standards and guidelines that can be brought together to support a more comprehensive evaluation of sustainability performance of products and materials.

Kevin Brady was a founder and Director of Five Winds International and is now an independent sustainability consultant and a Senior Associate at PE-International. For over twenty years Kevin has been helping leading public and private sector organizations integrate environmental and social factors into their core decision-making process. His diverse experience includes the development of sustainable development strategies and tools for industry, the development of international envi-ronmental management and climate change standards, examination of the linkage between competitiveness, eco-efficiency and innovation, and development of policy and programs to promote sustainable consumption and production. He was head of Canada’s delegation to ISO on the development of the Life Cycle Assessment series of standards and was instrumental in the establishment of the climate change standards work of ISO.

13:00 Network Lunch

14:00 Walk & Talk (+ email time)

14:30 Retailer Response Forum

Retailers act as a link between a multitude of upstream and downstream markets, making them key players in the European economy. They can be both trader and

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producer with close relation to the supply chain partners and the consumers, and can therefore become a driving force in the adoption of sustainable growth paths.

▶ Perspectives of the retailers about the EU Environmental Footprint pilot phase: Opportunities and challenges of the Organisation Environmental Footprint Sector Rule (OEFSR)

Carole DuboisQuantis

Quantis wants is to play an active role in the PEF/OEF Pilot and due to past realizations of OEF studies for retailers, players asked them to lead the proposal for the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation Environmental Footprint Sector Rule (OEFSR) Pilot. Quantis enrolled to play three key roles: project managers of the Technical Secretariat, LCA experts and consensus builders. With the other proponents to the Technical Secretariat, Quantis took the lead on the promotion of the OEFSR in the retail sector. Together with Colruyt, Carrefour and Environment Agency Austria, Carole will present their view on the opportunities and challenges to participate to this Pilot on the methodological aspects, and the envisioned plans for the coming 2 to 3 years of Pilot if selected by the Commission.

Carole Dubois is an LCA consultant and key account manager at Quantis Inter-national. Active in the LCA field since 2008, she spezialized in the agro-food and packaging sectors. With a background in both environmental engineering and busi-ness management, Carole provides technical solutions meeting business needs, with the goal to help organizations move towards sustainability through the life cycle approach. In the Retailer Response Forum, Carole will co-present retailer perspec-tives regarding the EU Environmental Footprint Pilot Phase with Carrefour, Colruyt and Environment Agency Austria.

Pascal LégliseCarrefour

Carrefour considers that being a responsible retailer requires to ensure that pur-chasing in their stores benefits the whole society. This is why they decided to reduce their environmental footprint. A harmonized methodology will enable them to have a more reliable progress in monitoring. On the long term, they want this methodol-ogy to be consistent with product environmental footprint. Pascal will explain how this enables Carrefour’s work with their suppliers in order to offer their consumers products with higher environmental value.

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Pascal Léglise is quality and sustainable director in Carrefour Belgium. Respon-sible for the own brand of Carrefour, since 2001. Pascal has an experience in the safety, quality, environnement and sustainability for food and non food products inte-grated the packaging. Since 2008 Pascal develops with external competent people the Carbone footprint program of Carrefour Belgium. In Belgium and in the Carrefour Group there is a very pragmatical approach to collaborating with suppliers.

Steven van HemelryckColruyt

In 2012, Colruyt Group participated in the test phase for both the Organisation and the Product Environmental Footprint methodologies. Based on that experience, they decided to engage further by taking the lead to elaborate the OEF sector rules for the retail sector and by initiating a multi-sectoral chain-OEF approach. Colruyt Group aims for a retail OEFSR that allows a relevant, cost efficient, simple and com-municable OEF calculation, based on an harmonized methodology. Colruyt Group has a strong belief in a company based approach and sees great potential for the European OEF methodology to become the reference regarding organisation envi-ronmental footprinting. It should be in every company’s interest to be part of the pilot phase for this OEF methodology.

Steven van Hemelryck is working as a project engineer in the ‘energy, environment and advanced technologies’-department at Colruyt Group. His primary focus lies on environmental footprinting and sustainability assessments. In 2007, he graduated as a bio-engineer in chemistry at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. After doing a full year of research at the university (in the field of microbiology and analytical chemistry), he started to work at Colruyt Group in November 2008. At the 1st PEF World Forum he will present the retailer case, together with Carrefour, the Environment Agency Austria and Quantis.

15:30 Meet & Greet (coffee)

16:00 Outlook on the 2nd wave of the Environmental Footprint pilot phase – open discussion

Guido Axmann | PEF World Forum(see above)

16:45 Wrap up 1st PEF World Summit

Rasmus Priess | PEF World Forum(see above)

17:00 Farewell Cocktail

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Thomas AlbisserHop-CubeFrance

In the last 5 years he focuses on two main topics in PEF: how to communicate and transmit product environmental information to non experts (as consumers), and what is the business impact?

Terhi Aspola Tieto CorporationFinland

As a project manager she coordinates a project that includes a wide network of pro-fessionals from different fields of business: Aiming to reduce the administrative costs of SMEs in half, one of the modules in this program is called ‘Sustainability intelligence management’.

Tuba AtabeySUSTAiNOVATurkey

As a Senior Sustainability Consultant she does Life Cycle Assessment and Corporate Sustainability Consulting, Sustainability Strategy and Governance, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability Reporting.

Florinn Bareth Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

At THEMA1 she is assisting the PEF World Forum and projects of the Green

Music Initiative. She holds a M.A. in film studies, philosophy and art history and has worked in film production, arts and music

Jacob Bilabel Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

He is founder of Berlin based think-do-tank THEMA1 specialised in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon society. In 2008 he launched the pan-European Green Music Initiative, which provides a platform for the music and entertainment industry to coordinate projects in the fight against climate change – with the objective to create demand for innovative and sustain-able strategies – both from the climate and business points of view. Beside all of this, Jacob loves surfing.

Jean-Christophe Bligny Danone Nature France

He is the Global Environment Scientific Affairs Director of the Danone Group and in charge of the development of Environ-mental impact assessment tools, as well as methodology, process and water-related stakes strategy of the Group’s Nature program.

Hans BlonkBlonk Consultants Netherlands

He has been active in assessing the envi-ronmental effects of products, in the

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broadest sense, since 1990. His core ex-pertise is LCA of food production and sup-ply chains. He is involved in developing the methodological basis for LCA, GHG and sustainability assessment of food products.

Koen Boone Managing Director Europe TSC Netherlands

Lena Buck Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

She holds an international degree in Event Management with a minor in Creative Industries. At THEMA1, she is project manager of the GRID EXPO, a project about the future and aesthetics of the Energiewende. Furthermore, she is involved in the Renewables-Grid-Initiative as well as different Green Music Initiative projects.

Enrico CancilaErvetItaly

Javier CastroTÜV SüdGermany

He is responsible for the development of new consultancy and/or certification activi-ties in the environmental arena. With great experience in the carbon footprinting, the development to environmental footprint is a logic and necessary step for any company with vision on the future.

Bahar Cat-KrauseGS1Germany

As a leading standardisation organisation for identification, information exchange and processes GS1 Germany is supporting the efficient organisation of sustainability in the supply chain. The focus of Bahar´s work is on product sutainability and sustainability in logistics.

Tony ColemanMakita UK

He coordinates all relevant regulation and compliance including environmental topics, such as product carbon footprint. He is a member of the PCF working group for the European Power Tool Association.

Virgine d’EnfertFEBEA France

She graduated from Agro Paristech and holds a master of marketing from Paris Dauphine University. She has extensive experience in marketing and management with international groups in France and in the United States, operating on agro food, cosmetics and luxury markets.

Roman Dashuber Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

He holds an academic degree in environ-mental psychology. In his current position at THEMA1 he manages the Green Club

Index project, the first national project aim-ing at increased energy efficiency in clubs and discotheques. Within THEMA1 Roman Dashuber is also involved in the PEF World Forum, a global platform to share practi-cal experiences and knowledge towards climate-conscious consumption.

Bernard De CaevelRDC EnvironmentBelgium

Francesco Degli Innocenti NovamontItaly

Christina DeiblGIZ Germany

Under the framework of the project “Qualitätscheck Nachhaltigkeitsstandards” commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, GIZ is currently developing a web based tool to compare and assess the potential performance and the credibility of sustainability standards.

Nathalie Delangle FEBEA France

She joined the FEBEA in 1998. As environ-mental issues are becoming prominent for this sector, she contributed to the imple-mentation of the environmental affairs. Her main role is to monitor the environmental regulation and to co-animate the working groups. FEBEA leads the “beauty” working group of the ADEME/AFNOR Platform.

Regina DoellerMitsui Chemicals Europe Germany

Peter Edwards Québec’s Finance and Econo-my Ministry Canada

He is an industrial development advisor in the field of production carbon footprint-ing and life-cycle assessment at Québec’s Finance and Economy Ministry. He recently served as project manager for Québec’s pilot project on the carbon footprint of prod-ucts. Peter received a degree in financefrom Laval University after which he spent five years working for a Canadian financial institution in investment fund account-ing. He is currently completing an MBA in corporate social responsibility with a focus on issues relating to climate change and sustainability.

Catarina Salomé FurtadoPortugal

She holds a MSc Env. Eng. With 13+ years expertise in Carbon Management, namely in the Retail, IT, Finance and Tourism industries, she developed both technical and commercial work. She represented the Portuguese Ministry for Environment at the Climate negotiations during the EU Presi-dency. Currently she is a freelancer and looking for international job opportunities.

Mark Goedkoop PRé Consultants Netherlands

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Anthony HumeEnviro-Mark Solutions New Zealand

He has 15 years LCA and Environmental Management Systems experience working with the electronics, manufacturing, primaryand charity sectors. He is currently a senior adviser at Enviro-Mark Solutions Ltd over-seeing the product and service certification process. He has worked on New Zealand’s responses to ISO/TS 14067 for carbon footprints and to ISO 14046 for water footprints. Anthony is currently working on the set up of an Environmental Product Declaration scheme in New Zealand and Australia and the New Zealand’s response to EU Product/Organisational Environ-mental Footprint initiative. He is currently Secretary of the Life Cycle Association of New Zealand.

Michio Ikeda Toshiba of Europe Germany

He is Senior Manager of Toshiba Euro-pean Environment Office and in charge of environmental affairs of Toshiba Group in EMEA region. Also he is co-chair of Footprint Issue Group of Japan Business Council in Europe (JBCE).

Fabio Iraldo ErgoItaly

He is an Associate Professor at Scuola Sant’Anna Pisa and Research Director at the Institute for Environment Economics, Bocconi University Milan. As a consultant, he supported many companies in develop-ing their LCAs and EPDs (e.g.: Luxottica,

He founded PRé Consultants in 1990, and since then developed important LCA meth-odologies such as eco-indicator 99 and ReCiPe, as well as the most widely used LCA tool SimaPro.

Catherine Gomy GreenextFrance

She is Executive Director at Greenext, con-sultancy specialized in calculating industri-alized solutions for sustainable production and consumption. Agronomic engineer with a PhD. She has developed strategic and operational expertise in the field of quality, environment and sustainable development, especially in the field of consumer goods and retail.

Olivia GreblerBIOLIA Switzerland

She is a Chemist and Environmental Engi-neer with 10 years of international experi-ence that combines her passion for sus-tainability with her expertise in quality and environmental management systems (ISO 9001, 14001, 14040, 14044 and 17020) providing global consulting services in food production and consumption sustainability, certification and communication.

Pauline Helmich Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

She graduated in 2013 and works now as an intern at THEMA1 in Berlin.

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Carlsberg, etc.). His research team is start-ing up a LIFE+ funded project on the EU PEF (“PREFER”).

Constance Ißbrücker Germany

Morgan JonesCarbon Trust UK

He joined the Carbon Trust in 2009 sup-porting Carbon Trust Certification. He has the main responsibility for all product, project and organisational carbon footprint certification decisions taken by Carbon Trust Certification. He has day-to-day responsibility for ensuring a high quality certification process and for managing the assessment process.

Marianne JüscheILIB Germany

She is an environmental engineer who is working as a self employed consultant for industrial enterprises. With more than 20years of work experience, her subjects cov-er ressource and energy efficiency as well as GHG-calculations and other aspects of sustainable development.

Bettina KahlertclimatopSwitzerland

As CEO of climatop, she works towards an effective dissemination of the CO2 label “approved by climatop”. The label certifies

climate-friendly products and services with the goal to realise a long-term develop-ment and distribution of climate compatible products and services as well as to foster a climate friendly buying behaviour of consumers.

Lea Maria Kemper BeiersdorfGermany

She works in the Corporate Sustainability department of Beiersdorf in the Environ-mental Sustainability & Safety team. She is responsible for the environmental sustain-ability data collection and reporting. As well as LCA and supporting sustainable product development.

Daniel KielhornTÜV NordGermany

He works as the Head of Carbon Services Certification program at TÜV NORD CERT GmbH. He is responsible for verifications of Carbon Footprints and Carbon Neutrality.

Agnes Klein Wissenschaftszentrum Straubing Germany

She works in the consumer and market re-search. Her main interest is the acceptance of and willingness-to-pay for environmental friendly, ethically produced and regional food products

Manfred Krautter EcoAidGermany

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He is responsible for Supply Chain Man-agement and Standards, Green Products, Issue Monitoring and Management, Food and Consumer Goods.

Christian KrügerBASFGermany

He is a chemist by training and holds a PhD in polymer chemistry from the Univer-sity in Mainz. After his scientific work at the Max-Planck Institute and the University of Toronto he joined BASF for working in dif-ferent positions in research, development and marketing. Currently he is working for the sustainability strategy unit, coordinating the activities around Product Carbon Foot-print and EU Footprint within BASF.

Paul LampertWissenschaftszentrum StraubingGermany

He is a scientific employee at the Straub-ing Center of Science, a special research institute for renewable resources operatedby TU München and the University of Ap-plied Science Weihenstephan-Triesdorf. There he is working on the integration of the consumer phase in PCF-calculations on an emperical basis.

Etienne Lees-Perasso Bureau Veritas CODDEFrance

As an LCA and ecodesign consultant, he performs LCAs of EEE and transport products and services, aiming environmen-tal communication and ecodesign. He also creates and updates datasets for the EIME software database conforming to ILCD

recommendations, develops and integrates impact indicators and participates to the French environmental labeling platform.

Esther Lissel Think-Do-Tank THEMA1 Germany

She is currently interning at THEMA1 where she is involved in the projects PEF World Summit and Green Music Initia-tive amongst others. She holds a diploma degree in economics with a major in energy economics and has studied in Seoul and Helsinki.

Marcos López-Brea EOI-School of Industrial Organisation. Ministry of Industry Spain, Spain

He is a Climate Change and Energy expert and currently involved in the following activities: International Master in Sustain-able Development. EOI, Faculty Lecturer. Carbon Footprint Course. EOI, Faculty Lecturer. Master in Marine RenewableEnergies. IME (Instituto Marítimo Español), Director. PhD Carbon Footprint.

Katarina LorentzonSIK – the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology Sweden

The Sustainable Food Production depart-ment, where she is a project manager, car-ries out research projects and consulting activities to quantify the environmental impact from food production. She also runs a “food and the environment” network of organizations with activities in Sweden (industry, food service sector, national authorities, NGOs).

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Ileana ManeraSOREMARTEC ITALIAItaly

Elena Marin Garcia RepsolSpain

She is responsible for the environmental footprint action plan of Repsol.

Rimousky MenkveldPRé ConsultantsNetherlands

Eric MugnierERNST & YOUNG et Associés France

Osamu Namikawa HitachiJapan

He is working for the Environment Policy Division, Information & Telecommunica-tion Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd and is responsible for Environmental Concious Design and standardization of environmen-tal area.

Moritz Nill Systain Consulting Germany

He is Director of Systain’s office in Berlin and is leading the natural resource and waste handling team. As a trained physicist

he has received his doctorate degree on the ecological impacts of energy tech-niques. During his PhD he has concentrat-ed on Life Cycle Assessment and environ-mentally extended input-outputanalysis and the evaluation of environmental impacts. He has got wide experiences in consulting of companies focussing on environmen-tal data management and sustainability strategy.

Michael OomsRDC Environment Belgium

With a degree in bio-engineering, he serves as managing director of RDC-Environment and is responsible for the development and the implementation of RDC’s eco-design and labeling LCA tools (InstantLCA). He was in charge of the coordination of the feasibility study of carbon labeling of food products (200 references) for the FCD and ANIA in 2012 and is leading the 2 years project for ADEME concerning the develop-ment of the French LCA database in the framework of the Grenelle Law.

Julie Orgelet Bureau Veritas CODDE France

She is a Project Manager in Life Cycle As-sessment & Ecodesign at Bureau Veritas CODDE. She holds a process engineering degree and follows a specializationin the field of environmental process and management. She is now responsible for the management of the EIME LCA and ecodesign tool development and for its technical promotion.

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Laura PalmeiroDanoneFrance

She is Vice President Nature at Danone in Paris. Before she was investors’ relations officer at Danone and sales & marketing controller at Danone in Argentina.

Fabio Peyer Amcor Group Switzerland

He holds a Master degree in Environmental Sciences from the ETH Zurich. He held different positions in CSR & Sustainability in the packaging industry, more recently with Amcor, one of the biggest packaging companies worldwide. He is responsible for the implementation of Amcor’s product stewardship strategy in the Americas and in key European business segments.

Benoit Phuez Afnor CertificationFrance

As a project manager he has the mission to develop new services in certification or assessment system for products, services or management systems.

Jens PlambeckGermany

Normally working for Accenture, he currently conducts a part-time MBA in Sustainability Management. The Centre for Sustainability Management at Leuphana University in Lüneburg provides the perfect setting. For his master thesis he’d like to

learn more about PEF/OEF and their link to practical LCA-/Carbon Footprint-work and Sustainability Performance Management.

Helena Ponstein Humboldt UniversitätGermany

Sandra RablShell Global SolutionsUSA

Noura Rhemouga Red BullÖsterreich

She is Global Sustainability Manager at Red Bull.

Jean-Michel Rossignol PEP ecopassport France

Involved in the association PEP since 2010, he has been elected as president in May 2013, the role of the association PEP is to promote PEP ecopassport® program which proposes a common framework (PCR) for environmental declarations of electric, electronic and HVAC products.

Julia Rowe Johnson Matthey UK

She advises on sustainability issues and promote initiatives across JM’s business units globally. She has a particular interest in Life Cycle Assessment of products.

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Kristof Rubens Flemish Government – Enviro-ment, Nature and Energy DeptBelgium

In his function he does preparatory work for environmental policy in the fields of green economy and sustainable consumption.

Christian Schader Socio-Economics Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland

Heinz Schmid Schäffer Schmid Partner Switzerland

He is managing director of Schäffer Schmid GmbH, a consulting company which he co-owns together with his wife Dr. R. Schäffer.

Jasper Scholten Blonk Consultants Netherlands

Blonk Consultants are experts in conduct-ing LCAs of agro-food products. They work according to the latest internationally recognized guidelines and methods (e.g. ILCD, PEF, ENVIFOOD). As a small team of 10 specialized consultants, they offer a personal service that is flexible and respon-sive to the needs of their customers.

Max Sonnen AkzoNobel Sustainability Sweden

He is working with sustainability strategy and implementation based on LCA. In his position as a Sustainability Specialist he

is the chairman of the CEPE Sustainability Working Party.

Michael Spielmann PE International Germany

As a senior manager, he is responsible for developing and selling GHG / CO2 and environmental businesssolutions & strate-gies (OEM and SME). He participated in the development of several carbon footprint standards, e.g. PAS 2050, GHG Proto-col and ISO 14067. He was a founding member of the LCA database ecoinvent and holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).

Sebastian Spierling IfBB – Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites Germany

As a Research Associate he is involved in Development and life cycle assessment of biocomposites and bioplastics.

Cornelia Stettler Carbotech Switzerland

She is responsible for Life Cycle Assess-ment and Mass Flow Analysis for decision support in industry and administration.

Norio Takeyama Toshiba Corporation Japan

He is in charge of promotion of Environ-mental Conscious Products in Toshiba group. He developed streamlined LCA software “Easy-LCA” sold in Japan, and

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has been introduced LCA to Toshiba in 1993. He is also an expert of ISO/TC207/SC5/WG9,WG10 and is participating in standardization of ISO/TS14072(LCA for organization).

Florian Teipel econsense – Forum for Sustain-able Development of German Business, Germany

As a Project Manager at econsense he is responsible for topics such as climate change, resource efficieny or biodiversity and ecosystem services. Their activities focus on the practical implementation of sustainable strategies in business.

Maija Tenhunen Tieto Corporation Finland

She works as a Corporate Responsibility Manager at Tieto, the largest Nordic IT ser-vices company. She has experience insustainability management and environ-mental footprinting of IT. IT can lower envi-ronmental impact of products and services. It can also be used to transmit footprint information across organizations transpar-ently and efficiently.

Serge Théoleyre Association P.E.P. France

P.E.P. association is a non profit associa-tion which develops an international EPD programme for electrical and electronic equipments. It is open to all actors mainly in the B2B sectors.

Tapani Turunen Tieto Corporation Finland

He works in Tieto Corporation Value Net-works. His current responsibility is the leadof global E-invoicing service offering. Due the E-invoicing and his role in international standardization he also tightly contributes in Finnish Real-Time-Economy program.

Kim Van Doorsselaere HuntsmanBelgium

As Product EHS Expert in Huntsman, she combines issue management activities with regulatory affairs compliance. She monitors trends and developments that are impor-tant to the Huntsman product portfolio and its supply chain, with Product Environmen-tal Footprint and other sustainability related topics being high on the agenda.

Víctor Vázquez Calvo Instituto Andaluz de TecnologíaSpain

BSc Biology and MSc Engineering and Environmental Management. Auditor for Certification of Environmental and Quality Management Systems at AENOR. Verifier for Environmental Product Decla-ration at AENOR. Member of the Sector Group Environment in the Enterprise Eu-rope Network. Co-ordinator of the Techno-logical Spanish Platform for Environmental Technologies (PLANETA).

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Erwin Vink NatureWorks BV Netherlands

He studied chemistry at the Utrecht Univer-sity. In 2000 he joined NatureWorks LLC as the Environmental Affairs Manager working in the area of LCA, Environment, Sustain-ability and Standardization. His responsi-bilities include the cradle-to-grave life cycle aspects of IngeoTM biopolymers. He is active in European Bioplastics, EuropaBIO, NEN, CEN and ISO.

Hasso von Pogrell European Bioplastics Germany

European Bioplastics is an association representing the interests of the bioplas-tics industry in Europe along the complete value chain. Its members produce, refine and distribute bioplastics which are defined as plastics that are either biobased, biode-gradable or both.

Gabriele Wende UPMGermany

Since 1997 she is working with different focus areas in the global environmental de-partment of UPM. Today’s focus is on data management including group level annual reporting, eco-labels, footprint assess-ments, projects, etc. In addition, as regionalenvironmental key contact she is responsi-ble for the German speaking area.

Caroline Wildbolz Stiftung myclimate Switzerland

She holds a Master degree in Environmen-tal Engineering from the ETH Zurich. She has several years consulting experience in the area of life cycle assessment and eco design of products and services, as well as extended corporate greenhouse gas emis-sion accounting and reporting.

Kerstin Wösten Wildeboer Bauteile Germany

Wildeboer Bauteile GmbH develops, manufactures and markets products for fire protection, noise protection and air distribu-tion. Her position is the Sales Coordination. Her role is primarily the interface to the departments development, quality manage-ment and production as well as supporting the sales manager in all matters.

Jet Wu Taiwan Environmental Manage-ment Association Taiwan

He is responsible for promoting environment-related management and labeling systems, such as Carbon Footprint of Products, Carbon Labeling, Water Footprint, Ecological Footprint, Energy Labeling etc. He partici-pates and executes government projects.

Marjo Ylitolva Tieto CorporationFinland

End to End responsibility for SAP Sustain-ability: Offering development, Coordination of presales & sales activities, Coordination of delivery activities in alignment with team managers, Project planning and workload estimations, Business plan execution, Co-ordination of marketing activities, Sustain-ability consulting.

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Networking in a relaxed atmosphere

As a tradition at PEF World Forum Events, the Network Dinner takes place on the evening of the first conference day. It gives the participants a special opportunity to meet in a relaxed at-mosphere while experiencing exquisite cuisine.

Network Dinner

Impressions from past Network Dinners

The Venue

The “Landgut A. Borsig“, formerly home of Berlin`s famous industrial family Borsig, is situated right in the heart of the picturesque Havelland, well known for its lakes and eponymous river, the Havel.

It is a historic place of science and research, of industry and politics and renowned for its beauti-ful surroundings with a large lake and park, hosting rare botanic species and wildlife. The prop-erty was carefully renovated only using environmental friendly material and with special care to the efficiency of the buildings. Furthermore, all catering is arranged according to seasonal and regional offers. The “Bio Hotel” is ‘Bioland’ certified due to features such as: a in-house PV installation and rain water use in all restrooms and environmentally friendly produced furniture.

This setting creates the perfect atmosphere for the 1st PEF World Summit, leaving room for both in-depth thematic discussions and presentations as well as many opportunities for inten-sive dialogues and networking with other Summit participants in this inspiring environment. Additionally, the Landgut has the ideal natural surroundings for many recreational activities to unwind after an intense conference day.

www.landgut-aborsig.de

The International PCF Product Exhibition was launched at the 3rd PCF World Sum-mit in Berlin, March 2010 as a continuously growing collection of products from different regions of the world, allowing the visitors to follow up on international developments in PCF and environmental declarations. Included are more than 100 products from different initiatives like CFP Project Japan / Carbon Trust, United Kingdom / Casino, France / Climatop, Switzerland / KEITI, Korea / PCF Project, Germany and TGO, Thailand.

This year the exhibition is extended to showcase further ways of communicating environmental performance to the consumer. New features are web-based applications for smart phones and an example of a com-munication campaign in Japan. Furthermore results of the French environmental labelling experimentation phase are displayed.We kindly invite initiatives, producers and retailers to keep us updated on their devel-opments and to contribute new products and further examples of environmental commu-nication.

Environmental Communication Exhibition

PEF World Forum on YouTube

www.youtube.com/user/PCFworldforum

PEF World Forum on facebook

www.facebook.com/PEFworldforum

PEF World Forum and Social Media

To facilitate communication within the carbon and environmental footprinting community, the PEF World Forum is present on different social media channels.

Hereby, the PEF World Forum aims for an even wider distribution of the various view-points demonstrated by speakers, participants and stakeholders, allowing for more in-depth discussions on issues that are relevant to the objectives of the PEF World Forum.

PEF World Forum on Twitter

www.twitter.com/pcfworldforum

PEF World Forum on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/groups/Product-Environ-mental-Footprint-World-Forum-3790506

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About THEMA1

THEMA1 is an independent Berlin based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society.

Founded in 2006 by Guido Axmann and Ja-cob Bilabel, THEMA1 initiates and operates projects in the fields of sustainable consump-tion, renewable energy grids, a green music and entertainment industry, and mass mo-bilisation of the public towards a low carbon future. Each of THEMA1’s activities is defined by the strong belief of its founders that ‘Talk without action means nothing‘.

THEMA1’s innovative blend of activities reflects the growing importance of cross- sector partnerships and synergetic approaches. THEMA1 strives for win-win cooperation with business, NGOs and public stakeholders by fostering supply and demand for innovations that are sustainable – both from the business and climate points of view. With its purpose of pioneering new forms of cooperation and promoting better communication among busi-ness, civil society and public policy leaders in Europe, THEMA1 operates in three comple-mentary spheres of activity:

•Development and initiation of sustainable business models with the aim of accelera ting the transition to a low carbon society

•Management of cross-sector partnerships with business, government and civil society organisations

•Design, organisation and facilitation of in-ternational multi-stakeholder dialogues and complex change processes

www.thema1.de

Projects:

PEF World Forumwww.pef-world-forum.org

PCF Project Germany / Platform for Climate Compatible Consumption Germanywww.pcf-projekt.de

Carbon Film Quotewww.carbonfilmquote.com

Green Club Indexwww.greenclubindex.de

Green Music Initiativewww.greenmusicinitiative.de

Grid-Master-Classwww.gridmasterclass.eu

Renewables-Grid-Initiativewww.renewables-grid.eu

Berlin Debateswww.berlindebates.org

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Renewables-Grid-Initiative

The Renewables-Grid-Initiative (RGI) promotes 100% integration of electricity produced from renewable energy sources. TSOs and NGOs join forces in RGI to sup-port the build-up of a sufficient grid infra-structure in Europe for both decentralised and large-scale renewable energy sources. This grid development should be efficient, sustainable, timely, environmentally friendly, and socially acceptable to all stakeholders.

www.renewables-grid.eu

Green Music Initiative

The Green Music Initiative acts as a pan Eu-ropean platform coordinating the music and entertainment industry’s efforts to minimise their climate impact. CO2-reduction strate-gies are implemented in close cooperation with scientific institutes, stakeholders and artists, paving the way for others to follow.

www.greenmusicinitiative.de

Selected Projects of THEMA1

GRID EXPO

The touring exhibition GRID EXPO showcas-es pioneering pylon design. It aims at bring-ing fresh impetus to the Energiewende by acting as radical mind-opener and triggering visionary, ground-breaking discussions. The GRID EXPO combines striking exhibitions with innovative GRIDSPECTIVES dialogue forums.

www.gridexpo.eu

Berlin Debates

Berlin Debates offers a new way of thinking about political issues. Adversarial debate breaks a topic down into two opposing positions. Speakers on each side have to convince the audience and as you listen to the arguments you can also get involved with a point or a question.

www.berlindebates.org

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