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What is Product Environmental Footprinting - PEF?

The European Commission’s launched Environmental Footprinting initiative, also known as the Single Market for Green Products, is designed to harmonize the many different methodologies available to calculate and communicate environmental information.
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The initiative released two guidelines, one of which – the Product Environmental Footprint – outlines how to calculate and communicate the environmental footprint of products.

Pilot projects are currently underway to test every aspect the guideline. What is already clear is that GaBi practitioners are well-positioned; the main requirements specified for the PEF pilot phase are implemented and available in current GaBi Software and Databases – they can be used by companies to officially pilot the PEF methodology.

The PEF initiative uses life cycle based methodology built on the International Life Cycle Reference Database (ILCD) Handbook and the ILCD format. ILCD format is a set way of providing LCI data such that it can be easily transferred between LCA practitioners and, more importantly, software systems. All GaBi datasets are already in ILCD format. Our expectation is that PEF projects will formally rely on ILCD format data in the future.

GaBi Software comes with ILCD data exchange functionality built in. Compliance with ILCD format is essential for the creation of Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) results so that these can be shared with reviewers, the European Commission, and other stakeholders.

thinkstep’s GaBi creates PEF results in ILCD format. With this interface, any GaBi dataset can be easily exported and exchanged with other practitioners and other software systems. ILCD format data from other systems can also be imported into GaBi.

thinkstep has been working with the European Commission Joint Research Centre since the inception of the ILCD program. The main requirements specified for the PEF pilot phase are already available in the GaBi Software and Databases making them ready to officially pilot the PEF methodology.

As the European Commission makes progress in finalizing the details, thinkstep will ensure that the GaBi Software and Databases remain the best tools and databases for completing PEF projects.

GaBi Software and Databases aim to be fully compliant with PEF after the pilot phase. The remaining open items will be solved along the way in the regular annual GaBi upgrade cycle. We will keep you informed about the latest developments.

PEF test kit

For those of our GaBi users working on PEF projects we have developed the “PEF test kit”, a format that allows you to test your products against the PEF guidelines.

It consists of methodological features that were discussed and evaluated in the pilot phases of PEF. With the kit, GaBi users could use and test the different methodological aspects to understand impacts on their LCA work, and to contribute to the methodological discussion led by the European Commission. Now that the pilot phases are about to end and the supporting studies are finished, the methodological PEF guidelines will be finalized and with it the topics in question. Therefore, the PEF test kit is not needed anymore.

The features of the PEF test kit that proved useful are of course integrated into the regular GaBi databases. The next release planned for end of January 2017 will for example include the regionalization of water resource depletion and the assessment of land use with the SOM method.

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