CSRD & Omnibus Proposal 2025: Key Changes, New Timeline & Impact for Your Business
On February 26, 2025, the European Commission published the long-anticipated Simplification Omnibus...
Category - sustainability
Combining Product Compliance & Sustainability: A Must for Modern Businesses
Businesses today are no longer grappling with just product compliance or sustainability in...
Unlocking Environmental Excellence: Substances and Materials
Materials and substances are the foundational elements used to create larger components and...
E-Waste Dilemma: The Environmental Impact of Electronics
In today's world, electronic devices are indispensable. However, their production, use, and...
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Navigating New Regulatory Waters: The Imperative of Balancing Human Expertise and Technological Innovation
As sustainability transitions from being a goal to an essential requirement in the automotive...
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Shifting Gears for a Sustainable Future: A Financial Commitment to Compliance and Eco-Friendly Practices
Our annual Automotive Trend Survey captures the insights of compliance and sustainability experts...
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Prioritizing a Green Future: Sustainability Surpasses Compliance
In an era where sustainability is not just a goal but is becoming a mandate for the automotive...
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Over 50% See Growing Interest in Sustainability
The automotive sector is undergoing a significant transformation, with sustainability taking center...
Powering the Future: Sustainability in the Electronics Industry
In an era where electronic devices seamlessly integrate into every facet of our daily lives, the...
Deciphering the Carbon Footprint of Car Manufacturing
According to a report by the European Environment Agency, transport was responsible for around a...
From Tailpipe to AI: A Brief History of LCA in Automotive
To all the LCA enthusiasts and sustainability experts out there -– this one is for you. Let's take...
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Sustainability in the Automotive Industry: Navigating the Green Road
When it comes to sustainability, all eyes are on the transport sector and the automotive industry...
LCA Data for Life Cycle Assessment: Unlocking Environmental Insights
In the pursuit of sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has emerged as a powerful tool for...
Confidentiality-preserving data exchange to enable sustainable product management
In a recent study by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management, co-funded...
What challenges arise in the adoption of circular economy?
There is a wide range of potential benefits, clearer regulations, policies, as well as urgency (see...
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Integration of the Catena-X PCF Rulebook into IMDS
The Catena-X automotive network has achieved a significant milestone in standardizing the...
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Umberto 11 - Scenarios for better decisions
Sustainability Optimization Umberto supports companies in improving their environmental performance...
Are there barriers to CO2 reduction in the automotive industry?
In the iPoint Sustainability & Compliance Trend Study 2022, we have gained many valuable insights....
Green speed? This is how important sustainability and CO2 reduction targets are for the automotive industry
The world is changing faster than ever before and the automotive industry is at a turning point. At...
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CSRD – Well Prepared Thanks to Data-Driven Intelligence
Sustainability in Discrete Manufacturing: Capture, Analyse, Report and Optimise. Is sustainability...
Surprising survey results on compliance and sustainability in the automotive industry
The iPoint Compliance & Sustainability Trend Survey is one of the world's largest surveys offering...
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A "Paper Tiger" gets its Teeth
The EU is getting tough: CSRD. The EU is to become climate-neutral by 2050 - to achieve this goal,...
Amazon requires climate targets and emissions data from suppliers
The key to net-zero is found in the supply chain
Sustainable Manufacturing: How to Achieve a Green Production
Industrial engineering and manufacturing of products is always accompanied by the extraction and...
Circular Economy: a Key Factor to Sustainability
As we navigate today's global environmental challenges, the circular economy offers a refreshing...
Building a Digital Circular Economy
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the integration of digital technologies is...
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Sustainable products are the future: in sales, compliance, and production.
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in production in the manufacturing industry and...
The iPoint Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2022
Surprisingly, companies worldwide, especially in Asia, increasingly view sustainability and...
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Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the manufacturing sector
Implementation of digital technologies for a circular economy and sustainability management in the...
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Understanding the ISO 14000 Family of Standards
Back in the year 1987, the International Organization for Standardization introduced a number of...
What is an Environmental Management System? From EMAS to ISO 14001
The term environmental management system refers to a holistic and strategic framework with the...
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How companies benefit from circular economy
Converting a company to a circular economy is an important step but many business leaders aren't...
Implementation of circular economy strategies in product development
Considering aspects of the circular economy right from the product design stage is the most...
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How new policies worldwide advance the Circular Economy
The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in...
What is Resource & Material Efficiency for Businesses?
Resource efficiency stands for the relationship between natural raw materials or technical-economic...
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...
Digital Product Passports: Pioneers for Sustainable Economy
Whether climate protection, circular economy, or resource efficiency, without transparent value and...
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Digital technologies for sustainable product management in a circular economy
The increased use of digital technologies is considered as a key enabler for a more sustainable and...
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Digital battery passports to enable circular battery ecosystems in Europe
The industry driven debate on digital battery passports as enablers of a circular economy has...
The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy
The concept of the circular economy is gaining more and more prominence on the agendas of...
Eco Efficiency Analysis: Balancing Profit and Planet
In today's business landscape, companies face the dual challenge of achieving profitability while...
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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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iPoint and BASF collaborate on Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation
iPoint and BASF are collaborating on the topic of carbon footprint to drive the standardized...
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Sustainability and Compliance Trends Study
The world’s largest sustainability and compliance trends survey entered its fourth round, with over...
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Sustainable Product Development in a Circular Economy
The concept of circular economy is of great interest to companies since it provides a framework to...
To Recycle or Not to Recycle – PVC Cable Waste is the Question
Recycling – it’s the magic word when the ill-informed think “environmental friendliness”....
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Using blockchain to achieve the SDGs and solve social challenges
Insights into the INATBA Blockchain for Social Impact Report
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The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: A Spotlight on Finance
A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...
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Circular Economy Implementation in Businesses – Cross-sectoral findings
by Lukas Stumpf, Josef-Peter Schöggl, Rupert J. Baumgartner
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Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2020 With a Focus on the Automotive Industry
The pandemic crisis heavily influenced the year 2020, which likely also impacted iPoint’s Trends...
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Sustainability Reporting Directive
A conversation between Joerg Walden of iPoint and Juan Ibañez and Dr. Chris Bayer of Development...
Discover the iPoint Suite
The iPoint Suite offers solutions for the entire product life cycle – from design to production and...
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How sustainable is the Circular Economy?
Josef-Peter Schöggl, Lukas Stumpf, Rupert J. Baumgartner
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CO2-pricing in Germany – Significance and consequences for companies
Since January 1rst, 2021, in Germany a new CO2 pricing on fuels has been in force. It demands that...
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Carbon Transparency – an Opportunity for Companies and the Environment
Reducing carbon emissions is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for companies to combat...
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Update on Research Activities
Anything but a standstill is currently happening in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for...
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The Green Deal and the Circular Economy
Zero greenhouse gas emissions until 2050 The European Green Deal Communication (COM(2019) 640...
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Digitalization and collaboration – A look into the Future
More than 65% of consumers are worried about climate change, and take social and environmental...
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I care, you care, we care: The iPoint CARE principle
Many of our customers say that we’ve simplified the complex processes of digitalizing the...
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From Compliance to Sustainability – The iPoint Suite
iPoint’s software covers a lot of ground. In combination, our software products provide a broad...
Data – the raw material required for good decision making in the transition to a Circular Economy
Properly utilized data is a valuable resource. In our increasingly digital world, most efficiency...
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Expanding compliance processes and tools to better manage sustainability
Many companies voluntarily go beyond regulatory requirements, setting higher expectations and...
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Blockchain for Sustainability & Social Impact: Help Us Map the Ecosystem!
In the past few years, we’ve seen a plethora of projects and initiatives emerge, focusing on...
End-to-end material lifecycle management is key
When it comes to materials in products, what we call “end of life” is also the “beginning-of-life”....
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A Natural Path to Managing Material Lifecycles
Meeting all local and global regulatory requirements is a must for all companies doing business in...
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We are living in a material world
Materials and substances are the fundamental building blocks required to produce bigger components,...
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SCIP database to be launched in late October – no indication that deadline in January 2021 will be postponed
The European Chemical Agency ECHA informed that during the last week of October, the SCIP database...
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Cobalt unmasked – Is cobalt really a sustainable option?
In recent years, the demand for cobalt has steadily increased with the development of the electric...
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Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence in Europe: Coming to a Country Near You
The European Union plans to introduce legislation requiring companies to undertake human rights and...
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 3/3
Continuous meetings with the (industry) partners of the CD-Lab are key to fostering knowledge and...
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3
The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management is a 7-year project with a...
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 1/3
To support the ambitious Circular Economy Action Plan adopted by the European Union, the...
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Are menstrual cups a “green lie”?
An LCA comparing menstrual cups and tampons shows that products advertised as particularly...
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Can Digitalization help to save costs related to Sustainability & Compliance?
The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...
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The Cost of Compliance & Sustainability – How companies’ spending evolved in 2019
The Sustainability and Compliance Trends Survey 2019 is one of the largest global surveys on...
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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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Medical Device Industry – Trends in 2020
Several global companies from the Medical Device industry like Becton Dickinson, Roche, Emerson or...
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How to provide Life Cycle Information for non-LCA experts
Thanks to automatization and data interfacing, LCA is becoming accessible to any role in an...
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Why we built the iPoint Suite
In iPoint’s software solutions, the CARE principle forms the foundation. All our software solutions...
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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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Carbon Footprint of Electric Cars: Is E-Mobility Truly Sustainable?
Electric cars and e-mobility are hotly debated issue right now, both in scientific circles and in...
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Do LCAs reveal green lies?
As life cycle experts know, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool to either confirm or...
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How to use Life Cycle Information to set AND reach your Sustainability Goals
Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life...
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How to build a sustainable car?
What are the challenges for the implementation of Sustainable Product Development in the automotive...
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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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Achieving transparency starts with digitalization – How blockchain can deliver social, economic and environmental benefits
It is hard to argue that industrialism didn’t improve the world.
German Battery Forum 2019: a round-up of congress highlights
Andreas Genest from ifu Hamburg, Member of iPoint Group, attended the BatterieForum Deutschland...
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How to bring transparency into the supply chain
More and more people are consuming more consciously and want to know where a product they buy comes...
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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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Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?
At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance...
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Chocolate efficiently produced: Energy management at Ritter Sport
Ritter Sport, the well-known German producer of chocolate bars in the distinctive, square package,...
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SustainHub Roadmap 2019
Free Webinar: Innovative insights and an exclusive outlook on the SustainHub Join Sebastian...
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Blockchain for Circular Supply Chain
Blockchain technology enables us to digitize and streamline the supply chain workflows to improve...
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New standard ISO 50001 for energy management places increased demands on companies
Recertification of an energy management system according to ISO 50001 has become more demanding –...
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fw: transparency 2019 – Save the date!
Under the slogan: “Latest Trends in Product Compliance and Sustainability – Integration as a Key to...
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Life Cycle Impact Assessment – the Most Widely Used LCIA Methods
Whenever someone starts his or her first LCA study, one of the questions to be answered is, which...
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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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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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Interview with Victor Vladimirov: Hobas Engineering
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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How material flow cost accounting reduces food wastage
Everyone agrees that food should not be wasted. Given its huge environmental footprints and the...
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Interview with Matthias Voigtmann, CEO of Energy Consulting Allgäu
Who is Energy Consulting Allgäu?
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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...
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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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iPoint Joins UN Global Compact
On August 7, 2017, iPoint was officially welcomed as a participant of the United Nations Global...
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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...
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Digital Circular Economy – The Digital Revolution of the Circular Economy
In contrast to the linear economy (take, make, use, dispose), the circular economy approach does...
The Life Cycle Perspective in the New ISO 14001:2015 Standard
Following publication of the environmental management standard ISO 14001:2015 on September 15,...
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LCAs in the telecommunication sector
Andreas Kröhling, Senior Expert for Corporate Responsibility at “Deutsche Telekom AG” recommends...
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Interview with “Germany’s most sustainable large-scale enterprise 2014”
Marko Schnarr works for the environmental office at Miele, the well-known manufacturer of household...
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Monetary Valuation of Environmental Impacts: The Path to True Cost Accounting
Managing to engage decision-makers at all levels of a company on sustainability matters is an all...
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Material Flow Cost Accounting: Resource Efficiency Made Simple
Many organisations are coming under increasing pressure to minimise the environmental impact of...
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A taste of Velo-efficiency
I once read that a human being on a bicycle is the most efficient means by which any animal has...
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The TTIP: Partnership or legal straitjacket?
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP) currently under negotiation between the US...
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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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Chance or Catastrophe? Towards a Constructive Media Coverage of Climate Change
Instead of using the opportunity to promote a low-carbon society, media reports of global warming...
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From Data to Knowledge: The Power of Elegant Sankey Diagrams
Industry defines the structure of our economy, of our work environment, of our personal mobility,...
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Long-Distance, Low-Impact? Inside Cargo Ship Travelling
As I sail through the English Channel and complete my last miles around the world on a reefer...
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From Green to Blue to Gray to Black: The Chromatics of Water Footprints
Because water is the most vital element for life, many contemporary intellectuals expect it to be...
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Eco-economic Decoupling: How to Measure a Sustainable Growth
What is decoupling? Green Growth, Sustainable Growth, Green Economy – All of these concepts require...
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Getting it Straight: the Carbon Footprint of Wine
I bet you know how much carbon dioxide your car emits per kilometer. Maybe you are also well...
