Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES Chalmers University of Technology Industrial Environmental Informatics Markus Erlandsson Raul Carlson Karolina Flemström A demonstration project for sustainable development October 25, 2004 EcoBalance, Tsukuba, Japan

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES –General information and goal on the DANTES project –Strategies aimed at different company functions –Tools and methods for environmental assessment and communication –Publications Content of this presentation

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES Project information Supported by the European Union (EU) LIFE - Environment Programme Period:2002 – 2005 Partners:Akzo Nobel – Chemistry ABB – Heavy electrical equipment Stora Enso – Forestry pulp and paper Chalmers University of Technology

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES DANTES goals Demonstrate and evaluate environmental assessment and communication tools: −Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) −Life Cycle Costing (LCC) −Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) −Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) −Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI) Focus on –practical use of the tools within the participating companies –apply these tools for decision-making within different parts of the company

DANTES Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES goals Display strategies of how to use different sustainability tools and methods in different functions within a company, focusing on: −Research & Development (R&D) −Marketing −Supply chain −Production −Environmental support

DANTES Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability Strategies – definition in context of DANTES By strategy we mean –A guideline on how the methods and tools described within DANTES, can be used to find requested information needed for environmentally related decisions, and how the resulting information is communicated to the decision-makers A strategy describes how to handle environmental issues in a company and to reach the overall environmental goals within the company

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability STRATEGIES Strategy – the journey from a question to an answer

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability STRATEGIES Strategy – the journey from a question to an answer Operational strategy is information management i.e. Industrial Environmental Informatic’s expertise

DANTES Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability Strategy – focus on the information neeed The DANTES strategies are focusing on the information need instead of on the tools The strategies have not been developed within DANTES. They have been selected and the selection have been strategically compiled and demonstrated on the DANTES web page A first set of 12 strategies are going to be publicly available on DANTES website 1 of November 2004

– the DANTES project website

– the DANTES project website Each strategy is described in terms of –Background –Working procedure –Experiences

Example of a strategy on the DANTES website Background Title Purpose for using the strategy Target group Simplified description for the target group Context This strategy will be presented in detail in session D tomorrow. The name of that presentation is “Standards and tools for environmental design and supply chain in railway industry “

Example of a strategy on the DANTES website Working procedure Step-by-step description Identification of used methods and tools

Example of a strategy on the DANTES website Experiences Success stories Resources needed Potential risks

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES Tools and Methods Strategies describe an integrated usage of many tools and methods to find the requested information needed for decision-making Require each tool and method to be described in terms of –Scope –Purpose for using the tool –Leverage effect (efficiency of effort > 1) Each tool and method has been analysed and structured based on practical experiences and knowledge about environmental informatics

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES Tools and Methods described in DANTES Management tools –Life Cycle Management –Product Stewardship –Environmental Management Systems Assessment tools –Life Cycle Assessment –Life Cycle Costing –Environmental Risk Assessment Communication tools –Environmental Product Declaration –Environmental Performance Indicator –Safety Data Sheets Other info –ISO standards, EU legislation, Conventions Software –Calculation and database tools

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES Publications The DANTES website does also contain a lot of publication in terms of case studies, reports, description of methods, surveys Example of reports: –LCA studies performed by the ABB and Akzo Nobel –EPDs performed by the ABB and Akzo Nobel –ERA studies performed by the Akzo Nobel –Documentation of methods, tools, and guidelines provided by Chalmers, IMI

Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability DANTES the official DANTES website More information