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- 1. Environmental Product Declarations in Ireland Date: December 9, 2016 Authors: Pieter Stadhouders Peter Seymour Measuring Sustainability
- 2. Contents • Introduction • Life Cycle Assessment • What is an EPD? • What data they communicate • How are they are created • How to get an EPD – EcoChain • The role of EPDs in Ireland now • The way forward
- 3. EcoReview Sustainable supply chain Building materials Bio-‐chemicals Life Cycle Assessment EcoChain Environmental Management Tool Green as distinguishing capacity EcoReview 2016
- 4. EcoReview 2016 Drivers • Direct demand from customers • Reliable upstream reporting • Marketing purposes • Internal knowledge • Benchmarking • Non-‐Financial Reporting (Directive 2013/34/EU) Life Cycle Assesment
- 5. ©EcoReview 2016 Environmental Product Declarations
- 6. EcoReview 2016 What is an EPD? ISO standardised and LCA based tool to communicate the environmental impacts of a product (or system) Self-‐declaration, quality-‐assured and comparable data Standardised assessment methodology EN15804 Third-‐party verified Benchmarking Reporting Communication ESSENTIAL CURRENCY
- 8. Energy and direct emissions Processes Allocate energy and emissions to processes Energy/emissions footprint per process Materials and transport Products and amounts produced Allocate materials to products Allocate process usages across products Materials/transport footprint per product Environmental impacts: • Product • Product range • Process • Company • Sub-‐category Environmental impacts CO2, smog, eutrophication, ozone depletion, water, resource depletion, heavy metals, etc., Generating an EPD
- 9. Generating an EPD -‐ EcoChain • EcoChain Tool is a disruptive technology • Operates in real time; cloud-‐based • Collects all data on energy, emissions, materials and transport • Reports all environmental impacts on: – Company level (including overheads and indirect activities) – Manufacturing site level – Process level – Product level • Per product unit • Per annual product output • Outputs EPDs and LCA reports, automatically • Scope 1, 2 and 3 impacts Materials per product Energy use per product Transport per product Reported for
- 19. EcoChain Tool Sankey Chart – Impact Flows
- 20. EcoChain Tool LCA Report and EPD generator
- 21. EcoChain Tool LCA Report and EPD generator
- 22. EcoChain Tool LCA Report and EPD generator
- 23. EcoChain Tool Features of EcoChain Tool • Licencee is owner and user of the tool • Easily updated -‐ in real time – Accommodates real-‐time changes – evolving picture – Removes need to update LCAs or EPDs from ground up – Easy tracking of year-‐on-‐year progress, for benchmarking • Incorporate upstream suppliers’ unique data • Consolidates impacts across group activities • Deep understanding of impacts: insights into improvements • Facilitates communication of sustainability credentials
- 24. How EPDs are used Manufacturer EPD is created Calculation tools Practice-‐specific catalogues TII carbon calculator Directive 2014/52/EU S.I. 284 of 2016 National Environmental Database Strong EPA support EPDs integral to ISO 14001 -‐ Manufacturer -‐ Contractor -‐ Specifier Manufacturer gets a competitive advantage
- 25. EcoReview 2016 Summary EPDs are: • Accurate and verified environmental data • Essential currency for compliance and communication • Building blocks for building/project calculation tools • Easily obtainable • Vital to establish National Environmental Database