Product Carbon Footprint Guide

With complex supply chains, extensive outsourcing, and frequent product revisions, the electronics industry has long believed that collecting supply chain emission information is prohibitively expensive. But as industry leaders are proving, creating a carbon footprint for any electronic device can be not just fast and cost-effective, but essential to a competing in tomorrow’s market.

Instead of near-sighted focus on regulation, product carbon footprinting helps create a sustainability strategy which can anticipate, rather than respond to, regulatory pressure. Leading companies like Siemens, AMD and Apple have adopted Life Cycle Assessment as the way to fully calculate and disclose the environmental impacts of their products.

PE INTERNATIONAL has 20 years of experience deploying software and services packages to support companies assess and manage product carbon footprints. With our SoFi Software for Scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint assessments, GaBi  Software and the electronics database for Scope 3 assessment, and an international team of experts on the environmental impacts of electronics, PE INTERNATIONAL provides a one-stop shop for managing sustainability programs in the electronic sector.

Learn how industry leaders are working with PE INTERNATIONAL to understand their supply chain carbon impacts!

Download Product Carbon Footprint Guide for electronic products

Learn from the best – Best practice in applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Carbon Footprinting (CF) have moved from the shadows into the limelight; a strategic tool for sustainability leaders like Apple, Alcan Packaging, Carbon Trust, Volkswagen, and more. Experts from these extremely successful companies will share their success factors and expertise with you at the

“Best practice in applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting” Symposium, taking place on October 28th in Stuttgart, Germany


WHAT YOU GET

• Success factors – the real facts that count behind their success stories. How Life Cycle Assessment and carbon footprinting can be utilized to gain competitive advantage.

• Steps to success – identify the value drivers. How to get top level support and how to implement LCA and CF in the management system.

• Maintaining success – lessons learnt and best practice in day to day operation such as integrating LCA and CF into IT systems, product development and environmental communication to clients and other stakeholders.

• Exclusive networking opportunities – face-to-face round table and plenary discussions, direct exchange with users and experts. Answers for all your questions.

PROGRAMME

• Oct. 27, Pre-Symposium Workshop on sustainable supply chain management (limited places available)
• Oct. 28, Symposium “Best practice in applied LCA and Carbon Footprinting”
plus a very special and unique evening event
• Oct. 29, Product sustainability solutions - GaBi user conference

The pressures of climate change and growing demands for transparency will continue to drive LCA and Carbon Footprinting to the forefront of your corporate environmental initiatives.

Publication on “LCA and carbon footprints in agro-food” now available

PE INTERNATIONAL´s Agrarian model integrated in the Software GaBi 4 supports carbon footprints and Life Cycle Assessment of food and agricultural products! The model allows robust assessment of agricultural plant production including carbon and nitrogen cycles, crop rotation, different geographical locations and agricultural practices. Customers can expect a highly reliable and quickly delivered result that is easily understandable and marketable at reasonable cost.

A detailed description of PE´s presentation at the 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector 2008 can be downloaded here.

For all proceedings of the conference please click here.

Please direct any feedback or questions to Dr. Sabine Deimling,

Email: s.deimling[at]pe-international.com

SoFi confirmed to be leading enterprise carbon accounting software

On 11 May 2009, a group of North American consultancies published the most extensive and up-to-date study on corporate carbon footprint software solutions. A total of 51 software products have been assessed, based on software presentations and client interviews. This led to a shortlist of 7 emerging ECA (Enterprise Carbon Accounting) leaders, with SoFi Software of PE INTERNATIONAL in a leading position: Next to being in this shortlist, SoFi Software has the highest number of confirmed implementations of all products in this market analysis, including clients such as Kraft Foods, Carnival Corporation or ThyssenKrupp Elevator

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