{"id":13195,"date":"2016-10-21T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.safetyangel.com\/recdev\/?page_id=13195"},"modified":"2016-11-30T03:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T03:49:11","slug":"product-environmental-footprint-consulting-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.safetyangel.com\/recdev\/product-environmental-footprint-consulting-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Environmental Footprint Consulting Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dt_row_1177728376652\" class=\"clearfix dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_2\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_row_3177728376664\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_4\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><div id=\"dt_row_5177728376618\" class=\"row dt_row title-blck\"><div id=\"dt_column_6\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt-section-head-7\" class=\"dt-section-head center  size-custom\">\r\n              <div><h2 style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:35px\" class=\"section-main-title\">Product Environmental Footprint Consulting Service<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_column_8\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_row_9177728376615\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_10\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-5\"><\/div><div id=\"dt_column_11\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-7\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_row_12177728376639\" class=\"clearfix dt_row\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div id=\"dt_column_13\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_row_14177728376621\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_15\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_text16177728376652\" class=\"dt_text\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 40px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: #0093d5; font-weight: normal;\">European Commission\u2018s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 5px; font-weight: normal;\"><strong>The Environmental Footprint (EF) is part of the \u201cSingle Market for Green Products\u201d initiative of the European Commission which aims at facilitating better information on the environmental performance of products and organizations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_row_17177728376628\" class=\"clearfix dt_row\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div id=\"dt_column_18\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><div id=\"dt_row_19177728376624\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_20\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_text21177728376642\" class=\"dt_text\">\n<ul>\n<li>Be prepared for upcoming data requirements: GaBi ts and GaBi databases are ready to meet your PEF needs.<\/li>\n<li>Understand implications for your business: thinkstep offers a variety of consulting services for PEF, depending on your business and the current sustainability strategy and maturity.<\/li>\n<li>Understand your role in the PEF development: thinkstep supports you in taking the strategic decisions required.<\/li>\n<li>Know impacts of your products and potential communication: do a so called \u201ePEF shadow study\u201c.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 2; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px -13px 0px -13px; padding: 0px; float: right;\">\n<li style=\"border-left: 1px solid #999; display: inline; margin: 0 2px 0 0; padding: 1px; float: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.1em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.safetyangel.com\/recdev\/contact-page-three\/\"><span style=\"color: #0093d5;\">Contact Us<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"border-left: 1px solid #999; display: inline; margin: 0 0px 0 0; padding: 1px; float: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0093d5;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_column_22\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><div id=\"dt_row_23177728376651\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_24\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_image25\" class=\"dt_image\"><div class=\"image-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.safetyangel.com\/recdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/weibull_mdi.png\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"img-responsive style-default\" src=\"http:\/\/www.safetyangel.com\/recdev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/pef-gabi-547x251-1.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_text26177728376644\" class=\"dt_text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"block-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkstep.com\/content\/whitepaper-environmental-footprinting-initiative-european-commission\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Environmental Footprinting Initiative of the European Commission<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Be ready with GaBi ts Software &amp; Databases<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_row_27177728376649\" class=\"clearfix dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_28\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt_row_29177728376667\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_30\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><div id=\"dt_row_31177728376686\" class=\"row dt_row title-blck\"><div id=\"dt_column_32\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-12\"><div id=\"dt-section-head-33\" class=\"dt-section-head center  size-custom\">\r\n              <div><h2 style=\"color:#ffffff;font-size:21px\" class=\"section-main-title\">Our service will enable you to:<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_column_34\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-6\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dt_row_35177728376629\" class=\"row dt_row\"><div id=\"dt_column_36\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-2\"><\/div><div id=\"dt_column_37\" class=\"dt_column col-sm-8\"><div class=\"dt_responsive_tab\"><ul id=\"tabid_38\" class=\"nav nav-tabs responsive\"><li class=\"active\">\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_0\"><\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_1\">Be prepared for any upcoming data requirements<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_2\">Understand implications for your business<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_3\">Understand your role in the PEF development<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_4\">Know impacts of your products and potential communication<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_5\">What is a Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)?<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\n<li>\r\n                        <a href=\"#tabid_38_6\">What is a Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)?<\/a>\r\n                  <\/li>\r\n          <\/ul>\n<div class=\"tab-content responsive\">\r\n                    <div id=\"tabid_38_0\" class=\"tab-pane in active\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_1\" class=\"tab-pane\">GaBi ts and GaBi databases are ready to meet your PEF needs. GaBi ts and GaBi data help you to participate in PEF. Moreover, GaBi data, LCIA methods, etc. are upgraded on a yearly basis \u2013 you always have the latest information. Free PEF Test kits are published when required, several times per year.<\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_2\" class=\"tab-pane\">thinkstep offers a variety of services, depending on your business and the current sustainability strategy and maturity. thinkstep is a key consultant for PEF pilot studies and PEFCR supporting studies. We are best positioned to advise you about opportunities and threats for your products.<\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_3\" class=\"tab-pane\">Whether you are an industry association, a participant in the PEF studies, a manufacturer of affected products, a tier-one supplier or a non-EU country\u2018s governmental body, thinkstep supports you in taking the strategic decisions required.<\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_4\" class=\"tab-pane\">thinkstep offers customers to do a so called \u201ePEF shadow study\u201c. to understand results and methodological challenges. Do a smart risk management and have your PEF study in advance of your competitors and prepare for any potential communication.<\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_5\" class=\"tab-pane\"><\/p>\n<p>Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) represents a breakthrough development of environmental product policies, with the potential of harmonizing and possibly replacing all kinds of product-related environmental metrics and labels: PEF has the long-term potential to integrate the Eco-design Directive, the EU Energy-label Directive, and EU Ecolabel Regulation, and a few other more specific product policies and serve as an umbrella policy.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the renowned ISO 14040 and ISO14044 standards on Life Cycle Assessment, and mandated by the European Council under the Single European Market Act, the European Commission has developed since 2011 a harmonized methodology for calculating the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF).<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div id=\"tabid_38_6\" class=\"tab-pane\"><\/p>\n<p>The Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) quantitatively captures relevant environmental impacts of any product (both goods and services) and over its entire life cycle \/ supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>In order to ease application and further increase reproducibility and comparability of Product Environmental Footprints (PEF) results, Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCRs) are being developed. Each one per product group, based on the common PEF guide rules, and in a stakeholder-driven process. 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