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Material 5 METI International Workshop on Future Utilization of

Corporate Value Chain Tokyo, 27 February 2013 French developments on

of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy 1 Ministère de

1 Material 5 METI International Workshop on Future Utilization of Visualized Information of Environmental Impacts in Product Life Cycle & Corporate Value Chain Tokyo, 27 February 2013 French developments on product environmental footprint display Sylvain Chevassus French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy 1 Ministère de l'écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement

2 The French system for product environmental information display : 5 pillars 1. Legislative basis: 2 laws Grenelle 2. Supporting the private initiatives since ADEME AFNOR technical and multi-stakeholders platform «expertise and standardisation» 4. National experiment footprinting and communication: Contributing to EU and international methodological harmonisation efforts 2

3 ADEME AFNOR multi-stakeholders technical platform General platform with industry and stakeholders Methodological working group Sector working groups (product categories) Communication format working group 670 organisations Database governance committee >1000 experts 3

4 Repository of «good practices» BP X 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 consistent Product and packaging Multicriteria approach: a mandatory carbon footprint indicator + other indicators A public and generic database All documents available in English: 4

5 Sector working groups 1. Food and pet food 2. Electric and electronic equipment 3. Cleaning products, products for garden 4. Body care 5. Clothes, textile, shoes, bags 6. Construction products 7. Furniture 8. Paper and stationery 9. Tableware, crockery, cooking products 10. Sport equipment, outdoor, toys 11. Non electric equipment, ironmongery 5

6 Work on Product Category Rules (PCR) 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 6

7 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

8 The footprinting system in development PF ADEME / AFNOR and WGs Methods BP X30-323, transversal methodology and PCRs Validated by WGs + stakeholder Platform Calculation tool compliance BPX ADEME + Database gov.comittee Public secondary database Data checked and validated by ADEME and governance committee

9 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)

10 Projects on food data On French agricultural productions: Agri-BALYSE ( ) 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 ( ) led by ADEME, Quantis, ART and French technical institutes (French scope) wine-making (and co-products), meat (beef, poultry, pork - and coproducts), 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)

11 National experiment on footprinting and communication ( ) Requirements : quantification + communication to the end consumer compliance with BPX 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 11

12 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. 12

13 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 13

14 Experiment: a wide range of operations 14

15 Experiment: examples 15

proxiproduit magazine («Croquons la vie»)

17 Nescafé et Nespresso 3 environnemental indicators : climate depletion of nonrenewable natural resources water 3. communication mobile phone : Application proxiproduit magazine («Croquons la vie») internet : aboration -

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20 Environmental Index developed by Casino, Bio Intelligence Service and partners (Alter Eco, Fruité SAS, Glon Sanders Holding, MerAlliance, Monoprix, Saint Amand, Saint Michel) On the back of the pack : definitions, weblink 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. 20

21 Picard fioul In shops On internet 21

Agri-BALYSE, a public LCA database of French agricultural products

Agri-BALYSE, a public LCA database of French agricultural products G. Gaillard, H. van der Werf, P. Koch, Y. Biard, C. Basset- Mens, A. Gac, A. Lellahi, J. Moussêt, M. Corson ART Zürich, INRA Rennes, CIRAD