Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP)
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What is a Carbon Footprint of Products (CFP)?
A Carbon Footprint (CFP) quantifies the total direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a product during its entire life cycle, from raw material extraction and transportation, manufacturing, distribution, to usage and disposal. The CFP is typically reported in kg CO2 equivalents, which allows that different GHGs (such e.g. as methane) are considered on a common basis. CFP is based on the methodology of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
The importance of CFPs
Companies can benefit from Carbon Footprint of Products in various ways. A CFP can be used for sustainability reports, e.g. within the Scope 3 emission calculations within the GHG protocol or is part of voluntary climate protection programmes, and is mandatory to participate in emissions trading.
Having a Carbon Footprint of your product enables the identification of cost-effective CO2 reduction opportunities, and the management of your GHG emissions. Next to that, based on the calculated values of a carbon footprint, compensation projects can be supported through the purchase of so-called CO2 certificates. In this way, a contribution can be made to both a company’s and international or regional climate goals.
How is a CFP created?
CFPs are created by our experts in accordance with international standard ISO 14067, which connected to the international standards on Life Cycle Assessments (ISO 14040/14044). Once you have chosen us as your partner in sustainability, we will plan a kick-off meeting where our experts define the technical and organizational framework together with you. Product selection, life cycle stages and system boundaries are determined during this meeting. Afterwards, the data collection phase begins. All relevant data (as indicated by our experts) should be collected by you and be send to our experts. With this data, they can conduct the LCA, and create the EPD. During the second stage, our experts will calculate your products’ emissions by doing the LCA. The results of the LCA are given as the Carbon Footprint, meaning in kg CO2 equivalent. With these results, your CFP will be created.
Corporate Carbon Footprint
Understanding your organization's carbon footprint is the first step towards meaningful change. At Kiwa, we show you how your company will reduce and avoid greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective way for the long term. We support you from the calculation to verification to reporting and enable transparent, accurate, scientifically sound communication of your environmental performance - without greenwashing!
Life cycle assessment (LCA)
A Life Cycle Assessment is used to quantify the environmental impacts of processes, products, services or organisations, usually as a basis for other sustainability applications such as Environmental Product Declarations, Product Environmental Footprints and CO2 footprints.
Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is a Type III Environmental Declaration and is regulated by ISO 14025 and EN 15804. It contains quantifiable environmental information on a European harmonized, scientific basis. An EPD is based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data.
Create your life cycle assessment and EPD with R<THINK
R<THINK is a software application that enables companies to create Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), and Carbon Footprints of Products (CFP), efficiently and according to international and European standards. With R<THINK you can carry out project-specific calculations as well as calculate the environmental impact of your entire product portfolio.
SEE-Standard – The Sustainability Standard for the mineral and metal sector
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