Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable,des Transports et du Logement

www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr

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METI International Workshop on Future Utilization of Visualized Information of Environmental Impacts in Product Life Cycle & Corporate Value ChainTokyo, 27 February 2013

Sylvain Chevassus

French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy

French developments on product environmental footprint display

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The French system for product environmental information display : 5 pillars

1. Legislative basis: 2 laws “Grenelle”

2. Supporting the private initiatives since 2008

3. ADEME AFNOR technical and multi-stakeholders platform « expertise and standardisation »

4. National experiment footprinting and communication: 2011-12

5. Contributing to EU and international methodological harmonisation efforts

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General platformwith industry and stakeholders

Methodologicalworking group

Sector working groups(product categories)

Communication format working

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Database governancecommittee

General platformwith industry and stakeholders

Methodologicalworking group

Sector working groups(product categories)

Communication format working

group

Database governancecommittee

ADEME AFNOR multi-stakeholders technical platform

670 organisations

>1000 experts

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General guidelines to develop methodological documents (product or sector category rules)

General methodology for the quantification of environmental impacts of consumer products (to be revised in 2013: end of life, life span, retail phase, water footprint, consistency with EU “PEF”)

Life Cycle approach : ISO 14040-44 consistent

Product and packaging

Multicriteria approach: a mandatory carbon footprint indicator + other indicators

A public and generic database

All documents available in English:

http://affichage-environnemental.afnor.org/

http://www.boutique.afnor.org

Repository of « good practices » BP X 30-323

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Sector working groups

1. Food and pet food2. Electric and electronic equipment3. Cleaning products, products for garden4. Body care5. Clothes, textile, shoes, bags6. Construction products7. Furniture8. Paper and stationery 9. Tableware, crockery, cooking products10. Sport equipment, outdoor, toys 11. Non electric equipment, ironmongery

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Finalised & validated PCR Food, beverage, pet food Shoes Backpacks Shampoos Toilet paper TV Detergents Bedding Disposable nappies Wooden furnitures Sofa Sofa bed Bike Disposable nappies Printer paper Sport balls

In progress

Clothes Stationery Toys Dairy Food oils Shower gel

Work on Product Category Rules (PCR)

Each PCR document addresses key methodological issues

functional unit

environmental issues to address

Indicators

life cycle phases to include

end of life

carbon storage

allocations between product and co-products

primary / secondary data articulation

The footprinting system in development

Public secondary database

Data checked and validated by ADEME and governance committee

MethodsBP X30-323, transversal methodology and

PCRs Validated by WGs + stakeholder

Platform

Calculation toolcompliance BPX

ADEME + Database

gov.comittee

PF ADEME / AFNOR and

WGs

The public secundary database Governance committee established 2011

IT structure established mid-2012 (ILCD format)

Three data feeding modes:

1. Agreements with existing DBs (Ecoinvent, PE, Quantis, Cycleco): adaptation and integration

2. Own (co)production : some sectors (food, paper, chemicals..)

3. Integration on request by industry (after validation)

Calendar:

Data being integrated from PE on energy, transport, steel, aluminium, plastics, leather, incineration, landfill (« mode 1 » data)

First on-line version in mid-2013

End 2013: Data from Cycleco on textile (« mode 1 » data)

2014: integration of Agri-BALYSE and paper data (« mode 2 » data)

Projects on food data On French agricultural productions: Agri-BALYSE (2010-13) led by

ADEME, INRA, ART and French agricultural technical institutes

Vegetable (field gate) : 31 product categories / 71 variants (conventional, organic etc.)

Animal (farm gate): 18 product categories (inc. dairy and egg) / 48 variants (open field, intensive, etc.)

→119 LCI in 2013

On food processing : New project ACYVIA (2013-15) led by ADEME, Quantis, ART and French technical institutes (French scope)

wine-making (and co-products), meat (beef, poultry, pork - and co-products), cheese, fruit and veg, oils, cereals, brewery, ready to eat meals

Participation of ADEME to WFLDB (World Food Life Cycle DB) with Quantis, ART and big industries Technical scope: agriculture & food processing Geographical scope: international (complement to Agri-Balyse and

ACYVIA)

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National experiment on footprinting and communication (2011-12)

Requirements :• quantification + communication to the end consumer• compliance with BPX 30-323 and LCA approach, and with

PCR (if already adopted)• carbon footprint with absolute figures• multicriteria (at least one more envir. criterion)• To be tested: technical feasibility, communication, costs,

methods, data access, etc.Flexibility was given to the companies:• Communication formats and media• Choice of additional environmental indicators

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Experiment: a wide range of sector and products

• Food……………………………………..

• Beverage………………………………..

• Body care……………………………….

• Clothing, shoes, home textiles………..

• Stationery, publication, edition………..

• Electric & electronic equipt, furniture…

• Building materials……………………….

• Supermarkets distribution………………

• Others…………………………………….

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Experiment: a wide range of company types

230 applicants from all sectors 168 selected; projects started 1 July 2011

size: 30% have less than 50 employees 25% have more than 500 employees

70 from the food sector Foreign companies:

Agricom (Chile), Bogota Chamber of Commerce (Colombia), H&M (Sweden)

French branches of multinationals: Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Colgate-Palmolive, Heineken,

Levi Strauss, Procter and Gamble, Unilever, J&J, Henkel etc…

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Experiment: a wide range of operations

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Experiment: examples

Nescafé et Nespresso

3 environnemental indicators :� climate� depletion of non-renewable natural resources � water

3. communication� mobile phone : Application proxiproduit� magazine (« Croquons la vie »)� internet : www.nestle.fr – www.nescafe.fr –www.nespresso.com/ecolaboration- www.croquonslavie.fr

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On the back of the pack :• definitions,• weblink www.indice-environnemental.fr) for more informations• code 2D : access to the information details

Environmental Indice is located front of the pack: a simple and immediate information for the consumer.

Environmental Index developed by Casino, Bio Intelligence Service and partners

(Alter Eco, Fruité SAS, Glon Sanders Holding, MerAlliance, Monoprix, Saint Amand, Saint Michel)

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