1. EFORWOOD – in context Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain Kaj Rosén

2. Industrial activities are evaluated against their impact on Sustainable Development

3. The Forest-based Sector has the potential to play a key-role in the development of a sustainable society!

4. Examples:   Environmental Impact Assessment   LCA (Life Cycle Analysis)   Ecological footprint   Carbon footprint A number of different methods are used today None of them allows for a complete analysis of all aspects of sustainability, which is the objective of EFORWOOD!

5. OVERALL OBJECTIVE To develop a tool for the Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of Forestry-wood Chains (FWC) at various scales of geographic area and time perspective. EFORWOOD shall produce, as an output, a tool, wich will allow for analysis of sustainability impacts of existing and future Forestry-wood Chains

6. EFORWOOD developes for the forest-based sector but based on the idea of developing a general method to assess the sustainability impact of complete industrial sectors (or parts thereof).

7. Economy SocietyEnvironment Three pillars of sustainability:

8. The principles of ToSIA : 1) 1)allows for identifcation of hot-spots in production value chains that can contribute to improved sustainability

9. The principles of ToSIA: 1) 1)allows for identifcation of hot-spots in production value chains that can contribute to improved sustainability 2) 2)could be developed for assessement of sustainability impacts of value chains of competing materials/industrial sectors. Approaches will not be developed within the scope of the current project, 2005- 2009

10. ToSIA is primarely designed to give answers to WHAT IF? - questions. What if:   EU introduces new policies on e.g. energy / transport / recycling / habitat protection?   wooden frames in houses are doubled?   global market changes?   oil prices doubles? ? ?

11.   applying Sustainability Indicators to production processes.   relating Sustainability Indicator values to flow of material. This is done by:

12. What can you do with ToSIA? sustainability impacts of changes in a FWC as influenced by external and internal drivers. material flows along a Forestry-wood Chain (FWC). indicator values (economic, social and environmental) for processes defined for a FWC. ToSIA will be able to assess: 1 ?

13. ToSIA operates on three levels (1) Single FWCs Examples studied in EFORWOOD: 1. 1.Scots pine Furniture/Bio-energy 2. 2.Norway spruce Timberframe 3. 3.Eucalypt/Recycling Paper/Newsprint

14. (2) Case study FWCs Examples studied in EFORWOOD: “Production driven” (North Scandinavia) “Consumption driven” (Iberia) “Regional” (Baden Württemberg)

15. (3) European FWC The ambition is to cover 60-80 % of the material flows in the whole European FWCs including all major forest types, production lines and wood based products.

16. What is ToSIA intended for? 1 2 3 ??? ToSIA is primarily intended for comparisons within FWC:s. Not between FWCs! Comparisons between FWCs are seldom relevant, since indicator values may be derived from completely differing contexts, which are not necessarily comparable.

17. The main EFORWOOD ”products” ToSIA will be available in three different versions: ToSIA-FWC The basic version of ToSIA used for assessing indicator values for processes along single/ multiple FWCs.ToSIA-E A tool for integrated sustainability impact assessment of the FWC in terms of Cost- Benefit, Cost-Efficiency and Multi-criteria analysis.ToSIA-U A simplified version of ToSIA including a user- friendly interface and context-help.

18. Foreseen applications  ToSIA-FWC  ToSIA-FWC will be used to assess the impact on the sustainability indicators of a limited number of scenarios.   Scenarios will be chosen based on external and internal drivers such as policies, climate change, market changes and innovations.  ToSIA-E  ToSIA-E is used to analyse and evaluate the impacts.

19. Results will be directly derived from the software Results will be divided into sections e.g: General (FWC) results Sustainability indexes (environmental, economical and social) Cost / economical results Production numbers Scenario differences Module by module results Sustainability indexes (environmental, economical and social) Cost / economical results Production numbers Scenario differences Policy impacts e.g. change in protected areas, % of CO 2 target reached… Output from ToSIA?

20.   Indicators   Scenarios   Data bases   Tool Development   Stakeholder Dialogue   Dissemination Linkages with other FP6 SIA Projects: EFORWOOD

21. EFORWOOD in short (1)   The overall purpose of EFORWOOD is to develop a general tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment (ToSIA) of complete production chains.   ToSIA is designed to:   identify hot-spots in production value chains that can contribute to improved sustainability   compare production chains for competing materials/industrial sectors. (NOT DONE IN THIS PROJECT!)

22. EFORWOOD in short (2)   The FBS is used as the study object because it:   is a major industrial sector in EU.   includes basic prerequisites for Sustainable Development.   has worked with Sustainability Impact Assessment for a long time   ToSIA will give answers to WHAT IF? – questions, using scenarios based on external and internal drivers.

23. EFORWOOD in short (3)   ToSIA is aimed for use by policy makers and industry.   ToSIA is a model of which the outcome can be used as a structured background material for analysis of proposed changes (discussions/negotiations).   You can always ”back-check” the assumptions and data on which a ToSIA-output is based.

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