Government

We work with goverments to support product oriented environmental policies.

Projects

• State of the Art of EEIO Analysis Applied to Circular Economy
  The aim of this project is to carry out a state of the art of the EEIO analyses applied to circular economy (CE) for ADEME (French Environmental Agency). A critical review is performed on the studies published in this area. The potential to reuse the advances from the research community is assessed.
• Total Resource Flows and Environmental Impacts December 2020
  An inventory including both a mass and energy flow analysis and a life cycle screening is performed for the region Northern Jutland. The inventory provides both a production perspective and a consumer perspective.
• Social Footprint of Packaging Waste Prevention October 2019
  The aim of this project was to conduct a social footprint assessment of a packaging waste prevention campaign carried out in Zamudio.
• Total Material and Energy Flows Marts 2019
  An inventory including both a mass and energy flow analysis and a life cycle screening is performed for Kolding Municipality. The inventory provides both a production perspective and a consumer perspective.
• Environmental account for Danish Ministry of Defense December 2018
  The Danish Ministry of Defense wanted a life cycle-based environmental account covering all their activities in 2017. The results are two proprietary reports - a performance report and a method report.
• Linking Data for Swedish public Purchases with Exiobase September 2018
  This project has the purpose to investigate the environmental impacts of Swedish public sector spending. The project is performed in collaboration with Miljogiraff.
• Critical Review – ICV-Tex: French Textile Database for Environmental labelling March 2018
  We performed a critical review of 73 textile Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) from the French environmental labelling database: Base IMPACTS®.
• Critical Review – Reuse of Household Waste December 2017
  Peer review of the Danish EPA project: “Miljø- og samfundsøkonomisk vurdering af øget genanvendelse af husholdningsaffald".
• EU PEF – Granularity of scope April 2017
  This project contributes to the European Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) category rules, by providing a procedural guideline, with examples, on how to correctly define the scope for the product categories, beyond the mere statistical product classification
• E P&L for Arla Foods May 2016
  An Environmental Profit & Loss account (E P&L) was conducted by Arla Foods, the third largest dairy cooperative in the world, with the aim of documenting the total environmental impact of Arla Foods.
• E P&L for Sollentuna Municipality December 2014
  The Municipality of Sollentuna (Sweden) has previously used LCA to estimate the environmental footprint of their activities. In this study we used the same data to estimate the Environmental Profit & Loss. The overall project results are published in a report.
• E P&L on the Danish Apparel Consumption October 2014
  This project consisted of an industrial E P&L for the Danish apparel consumption conducted across three levels: industry, company/brand and product.  
• Scientific Advice for the ecoinvent Database v3 September 2014
  Database software design, documentation and testing. Design and test of new LCIA data format. Advice on design of system models and specific datasets. Support for data providers and editors.
• Denmark’s Carbon Footprint March 2014
  A new estimate of a Danish Carbon Footprint and a review of previous studies.
• Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) for Novo Nordisk February 2014
  This project was a collaborative effort, looking into Novo Nordisk's value chain, leading to the first Novo Nordisk Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L).
• The Socio-Economic Consequences of Environmental Advices December 2013
  The project looked at the socio-economic consequences of 7 environmental advices given by the government. The purpose of the project was to investigate the value if such advices are followed by the general public and to visualize the benefits of a personal effort to the society.
• Baisikeli’s Recycling Project in Mozambique September 2013
  The purpose of this small project was to assess the climate effect of re-using old Danish bicycles in Mozambique relative to the current disposal as scrap.
• Ecodesign Requirements for Televisions January 2013
  The focus of this project was the implementation of the EU Directive 2005/32/EC on ecodesign requirements for energy using products (the EuP Directive) with special attention to the ecodesign requirements for televisions (TV).
• Data for a Hybridisation Experiment for ecoinvent Database Februar 2011
  Pilot project to enable a test on how the ecoinvent database could be integrated with IO data in order to produce a more complete (hybridised) version of the ecoinvent database.
• Assessment of the Effect of Agricultural Research December 2010
  The project aimed at assessing the effect of agricultural research. We improved the modelling of agricultural production in the Danish input-output model and applied the STEPWISE impact assessment method to monetarise the externalities.
• Critical Review – GHG Emission and Danish Broiler Production June 2010
  The aim of the review was to ascertain that the study was conducted in accordance with the ISO 14040 and 14044 standards and assesses the overall quality of the report.
• LCA Screening of Mobile Phone Service May 2010
  The purpose of this project was to identify the environmental impacts of the Greentel telephone service delivered by MobileValue in order for MobileValue to offset these impacts by investment in renewable energy.
• The ALCOA Smelter in Greenland July 2009
  The project aimed to provide a detailed overview of the environmental impacts, seen in a life cycle perspective, of an aluminium smelter with an annual capacity of 360,000 tonnes planned for instalment in West Greenland.
• A Web-Database on EMAS for Danish Companies September 2005
  EMAS is the EU's environmental management instrument, which is voluntary and is aimed at all types of businesses. EMAS stands for "Eco-Management and Audit Scheme". This project provided a database for Danish businesses with examples of management schemes.
• Support for Environmental R&D Programme Cooperation April 2005
  The ERA-NET Sustainable Enterprise (SUSPRISE) project aimed to expand cooperation and coordination among national sustainability research activities across Europe by promoting networking between government programmes in this sphere.
• Background Report for a UNEP Guide to Life Cycle Management December 2004
  The Background Report for a UNEP Guide to Life Cycle Management - A bridge to sustainable products was as a support to the UNEP Life Cycle Initiative and the UNEP Guide to Life Cycle Management.      
• Prioritisation within the Integrated Product Policy December 2004
  The project “Prioritisation within the integrated product policy” established a detailed and well-documented method for prioritising product areas and groups.
• Environmental Assessment of Agricultural Products August 2004
  The primary objective of the project was to promote a product-oriented environmental assessment of products from agricultural holdings. The project provided the basic prerequisite, namely environmental effects recorded per unit of product.
• LCA-Food: A Database for Basic Foods March 2004
  A database on the environmental impacts from basic food products was produced in 2000-2003 for the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, as part of the project "Lifecycle Assessment of Basic Food". The database is available free of charge.
• Product Oriented Measures in the Agricultural Sector June 2003
  This study outlined the state of the art and provided a foresight study with three scenarios that differed with respect to the role assigned to the product-oriented approach – the life-cycle thinking. For each scenario, a number of development projects were proposed.
• US Life Cycle Inventory Database September 2001
  The U.S. Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Database provides individual gate-to-gate, cradle-to-gate and cradle-to-grave accounting of the energy and material flows into and out of the environment that are associated with producing a material, component, or assembly in the U.S.
• Indirect Land Use Change Model (iLUC)
  How to model of indirect land use change (iLUC) in LCA? The iLUC Club develops and further refines a generic, simple and science-based model for including iLUC in LCA.