Environmental footprint: the key enabler of the next...
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Environmental footprint: the key enabler of the next
green revolution
An De Schryver, Michele Galatola, Benedetta Nucci and Imola Bedo
Environmental Footprint TeamSustainable Production, Products & Consumption Unit
European Commission - DG Environment
4 year pilot (2013 – 2017)
1. Test the process for the development of PEFCRs and OEFSRs
2. Test different approaches for verification systems
3. Communication vehicles
SMEs
Data
Inter-national
EF in a snapshot
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered
Impact category Contribution (%)
Climate change 21.5
Ozone depletion 3.0
Human toxicity - cancer effects 1.3
Human toxicity - non-cancer effects 4.9
Particulate matter 0.1
Ionizing radiation HH 0.5
Photochemical ozone formation 2.4
Acidification 18.5
Eutrophication - terrestrial 1.0
Eutrophication - freshwater 1.0
Eutrophication - marine 0.1
Ecotoxicity - freshwater 0.1
Land use 14.3
Water scarcity 18.6
Resource use, mineral 6,0
Resource use, energy carriers 6.7
EF compliant impact categories
Three sub-indicators:1.Climate change – fossil2.Climate change – biogenic3.Climate change – land use / transformation
Simplified modelling approach allowed: o Model only emission 'methane (biogenic)' o Storage < 100 years: no carbon creditso Storage > 100 years: a carbon credit
4 different land use indicators: Soil quality index based on LANCA
Regionalised AWARE method, as recommended by UNEP, 2016
Mineral depletion: ultimate reserves (CML 2002)
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered• The most relevant impact category / life cycle stages / processes / elementary flows
Based on normalised and weighted scoresContributing cumul. 80% to the total score
For each most relevant impact categoryContributing cumul. 80% to each of them
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered• The most relevant impact category / life cycle stages / processes / elementary flows• Default datasets to be used and rules on data needs
The list of mandatory company-specificDQR depending on the relevance of the processData needs matrix
Around 8000 freesecondary LCI datasets
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered• The most relevant impact category / life cycle stages / processes / elementary flows• Default datasets to be used and rules on data needs
The list of mandatory company-specificDQR depending on the relevance of the processData needs matrix
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered• The most relevant impact category / life cycle stages / processes / elementary flows• Default datasets to be used and rules on data needs• The environmental profile of average product sold in EU: the benchmark
The PEFCR/OEFSR
The PEFCR/OEFSR provides the following information:
• The list of EF compliant impact categories covered• The most relevant impact category / life cycle stages / processes / elementary flows• Default datasets to be used and rules on data needs• The environmental profile of average product sold in EU: the benchmark• End of life: One single circular footprint formula
Considering the quality of input and output materialsAllocates recycling burdens and credits between 2 LCReflects market situation of recycled productsCredits for energy recovery process of heat and electricity
State of play
• Spring 2017
Summer 2017
Remodelling exercise
• Ongoing
• December 2017
Conclusions
Methodological issues that need further work: agricultural modelling, allocation in certain specific supply chains, how to calculate the data quality requirements for datasets, how to define the classes of environmental performance, …
PEFCRs/OEFSRs: LC based information more reproducible, comparable, verifiable
Introduce the concept of EF benchmark
"Only” a tool to calculate the environmental performance
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Question: IF and HOW the PEF and OEF methods will be used at EU and at member states.
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EC Evaluation
Peer review
Policy discussion
2017 2018
Transition phase (2018-2020)
• Monitoring the voluntary implementation of the developed PEFCRs/OEFSRs
• Development of a (limited) number of new PEFCRs/OEFSRs• Methodological improvements
Next steps
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/smgp/
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/EUENVFP/
Twitter: @EU_EnvFootprint
Conclusions
• Enable innovative companies to design better productsimproving their environmental performance in the area whereit delivers the best environmental advantages;
• Address the whole consumption market;
• Allow citizens to make more informed choices without floodingthem with excessive information;
• Allow Member States who would like to introduceincentives/disincentives to link them to the environmentalperformance of a product along its supply chain;
• Allow policy makers to have a clearer picture of environmentalimpacts related to certain product groups/sectors, settingtargets and environmental objectives.