Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management
In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded...
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Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers
The key to net-zero is found in the supply chain
How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy
In addition to activities of legislative bodies, industry itself has set out on a path towards...
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Drive business value by data analysis – iPoint CARE
Data analysis for product compliance and sustainability, like Life Cycle Assessment or Product...
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Collect Data for Compliance and Sustainability – iPoint CARE
Data collection is the first step on the road to successful product compliance and sustainability...
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Compliance Reporting for Electronics – new challenges driven by the Automotive industry and the EU SCIP database
Chemical compliance reporting for electronics or products with electronics in them involves...
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How The Automotive Sector Can Do MedTech
Due to COVID-19, protective masks and respiratory equipment are in high demand. iPoint Compliance...
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How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research
How sustainable is a service or a product? This question is becoming more and more important in...
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Why we CARE – and YOU CARE ALREADY
Since 2001 customers, ranging from SMEs to Fortune 500 companies, have been using our software...
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How to answer the three fundamental questions and evolve your business
It’s obvious that companies need transparency for good decision-making and any management of...
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How digitalization and knowledge creates transparency for businesses
We believe in continuous progression with technology. This can be accomplished by making complexity...
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Why increasing market dynamics lead to complexity
Today’s companies face high pressure by investors to improve revenue, by regulations to abide by...
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LCA of lithium-ion batteries – there’s more to it than you think
With the use of electric vehicles on the rise, there’s a lot of buzz about how environmentally...
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The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019
The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to...
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Are you ready for Brexit? Check your Brexit-Readiness
On March 29th 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw...
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Together, we bring fw: transparency
At iPoint, we bring fw: transparency and places it at the forefront of everything that we do.
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Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery – how to mitigate financial and reputational risk
According the latest Global Slavery Index (GSI), released in July 2018, it can be estimated that...
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“Let’s stop re-inventing the wheel with everybody starting from the scratch when creating a material and energy flow model!”
Do you still rerecord, what you thought and expected when you started with your first flow model of...
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Ökobilanz von Lithium-Ionen-Batterien – komplexer als man denkt
Mit dem zunehmenden Einsatz von Elektrofahrzeugen gibt es viel Wirbel um ihre...
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Carbon Footprints in der Energiebranche: Experteninterview
Dr. Aleksandra Drewko ist Beraterin der EHA Energie-Handels-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. EHA ist ein...
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Für die CO2-Bilanz von der Kostenrechnung lernen
Eine Ökobilanz oder Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) ist vereinfacht ausgedrückt eine Aufgabe, die alle...
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Thailand‘s pioneer in reducing GHG emissions: Expert interview
I’d like to introduce you to Kularb Kimsri, Vice President at the Global Standard System Centre of...
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Twenty Years in the Making: a Review the 20th Umberto User Workshop
A 20th anniversary is often a marked event, so it was fitting that this year’s Umberto User...
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Social Life Cycle Analysis: Why Does It Lurk In the Shadow of Environmental LCA?
The term “Life Cycle Analysis” (LCA) is largely assumed to be the technique used for the assessment...
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Daten für die Ökobilanz: Kooperation entlang des Produktlebenszyklus
Wann sind Sie und Ihre Zulieferer besonders auf die Kooperation entlang des Lebenszyklus angewiesen?
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Data collection for LCAs: collaboration along the product life cycle
Gathering quality data is one of the biggest challenges in producing accurate LCAs. In an interview...
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Obtain LCA data from suppliers – Insights from a sustainability consultant
Rebecca LeBlanc is a sustainability consultant at “Strategic Sustainability Consulting” in Boston,...
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Product Carbon Footprints at FRoSTA: Expert interview
Urban Buschmann is Head of Sustainability and Process Development at FRoSTA, one of the biggest...
CO2-Fußabdruck für Produkte bei der FRoSTA AG: Experteninterview
Urban Buschmann ist Leiter Nachhaltigkeit und Verfahrensentwicklung bei der FRoSTA AG, einer der...
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How Traditional Cost Accounting Methods Resolve Carbon Footprint Issues
Life cycle assessment (LCA), in simplified definition, is a task that uncovers all environmental...
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3 Alternative Ideas for Waste Management in Developing Countries
Unlike the global north, most developing countries have difficulties affording sophisticated...
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Companies’ Anti-Slavery Performance Improves Globally, New Report Reveals
According to a new benchmarking report, companies’ anti-slavery compliance and actions have...
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The new CSR Reporting Directive of the EU
Starting with the fiscal year 2017, large listed entities with more than 500 employees will have to...
The Life Cycle Perspective in the New ISO 14001:2015 Standard
Following publication of the environmental management standard ISO 14001:2015 on September 15,...
France passes due diligence law
On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 people in Bangladesh lost their lives when the textiles factory...
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How Much is This Really Worth; How to Monetize Environmental Impacts
Managing to engage decision-makers at all levels of a company on sustainability matters is an all...
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Unburnable Carbon: Bill McKibben’s frightening math
An article by veteran American environmental campaigner Bill McKibben appearing in Rolling Stone a...
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A New Development Paradigm?
‘Development’ might be a fuzzy concept, but it is essentially concerned with fostering conditions...
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26 Life-Cycle-Based Business Strategies that Matter
We’ve all heard of the sharing economy. We’re all aware of the need for double decoupling. We all...
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The Cow, Black Sheep of Our Climate
Right after driving, flying, heating, and cooling, consuming meat and dairy products weighs the...
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Sustainability Triangle? One Pillar Missing!
There is a significant growing concern in several arenas that the three-pillar model of...
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Turning World War II History into a Renewable Present – 3 Striking Sustainable Adaptations from IBA Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city, saw more than half its building stock destroyed during...
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How to Get Maximum Greenhouse Gas Reductions in Emerging Economies, Part I: Brazil and China
Over the course of the last two decades, most people have realized that in a rapidly changing...
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5 Steps towards Maximum Resource Efficiency: Material Flow Modeling Made Easy
When calculating and reducing business-related environmental effects, two different approaches are...
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5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting
Business is not responsible for society. Business is society. Entrepreneur, manager, employee,...
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How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
Picking up on “sustainable agriculture”, most people think of free range chicken. They imagine...
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Kyoto’s CO2-Baseline Wrong by 7% – But Today’s GHG Inventories Aren’t All That Bad
Regardless of how China is perceived in the west, in the medium term, the world’s most ambitious...
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When Oil Majors Embrace Material Flow Analysis, New Hope for a Sustainable 21st Century Arises
There are manifold approaches to close the apparent gap between a shrinking resource base on the...
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67 Quick-Payoff Measures to Reduce Urban Carbon Emissions
Transforming the energy supply from fossil to renewable sources is a goal that makes sense, but...
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Do Universities Practice What They Preach? On Academic Sustainability
As I wrote in my articles on the future-proof Bachelor and verbiage-free Masters in sustainability,...
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4 Pressing Questions on the Ozone Hole Recovery
Two months ago, newspapers around the world happily reproduced a news headline from Reuters – the...
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“A Balanced Mix of Technologies and Strategies” – The Sustainable Path is a Multi-Lane Highway
When it comes to discussing ways to limit human influence on global warming, the most popular...
Why and How the Manufacturing Industry Should Go 100% Renewable Now
Renewable energy has a positive connotation in society and business, that’s for sure. The Fukushima...
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Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Behind the Scenes of a $400 Billion Waste
Ever since the 1980s, during the early years of the environmental movement, there has been a call...
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Avoiding the Relocation of Emissions – How to Face Carbon Leakage
In the course of the last 20 years, some of the more developed countries achieved a remarkable...
Why SMEs Should Foster, Not Fear the Corporate Carbon Footprint
Most firms are occupied with selling products and meeting payroll and feel they don’t have time or...
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Why the Carbon Tax Makes Sense and How to Gain a Competitive Edge From it
Instead of hoping that your lobbyist negotiates another carbon tax exemption for your industry, you...
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Brief theoretical guide to Sustainable Production
The Brundtland Report systematically defined the various factors related to society’s new paradigm...
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Getting it Straight: Exact Carbon Emissions From One Bottle of Wine
I bet you know how much carbon dioxide your car emits per kilometer. Maybe you are also well...
ecoinvent – The Swiss Army Knife of LCA Background Databases
Background databases can be very convenient when you assess all of the impacts a product or a...
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Terminating the End-of-Pipe Era by Simple Means of Process Optimization
In the course of the last three decades, more and more voices have called for cleaner industry....
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Exploring the Environmental Effects of Electric Cars
Can you imagine the weight of 1.8 billion tonnes? I can’t. I can only try to put this number in...
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3 Precise Perspectives on Corporate Carbon Footprints
As business consultant in the field of sustainability, I would like to share with you three...
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Ecology’s Step Child – We Need Water Footprints!
Assessing environmental effects of human activity is something we become more and more familiar...
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4 Alternatives to Waste Disposal – Increasing Your SMB’s Resource Efficiency
It is no secret, that the Earth’s resource base is on a declining track. In the 1970s, the Club of...
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Effectively Managing Greenhouse Gases – Worldwide
Do companies have a conscience to fight global warming and manage their greenhouse gas emissions?...
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Transparency and Saving Potentials
When I read about “transparency” in the context of sustainability or sustainability management the...
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Life Cycle Management 2011 – Personal Field Report
Last week I was at the LCM 2011 in Berlin – the biggest conference of its kind, with nearly 600...
Energy Efficiency, Policy Problem Child No.1
20% reduction of greenhouse gases until 2020 – We’re on the right track. 20% renewable energy –...
