DANTES

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DANTES
A demonstration project for sustainable
development

• Chalmers University of TechnologyIndustrial
  Environmental Informatics
• Markus Erlandsson

April 26, 2005CILCA, San José, Costa Rica
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Content of this presentation

• IMI at Chalmers University of Technology
• General information and goal on the DANTES
  project
• Strategies aimed at different company functions
• Tools and methods for environmental assessment
  and communication
• Publications
• Future

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Industrial Environmental Informatics - IMI

• IMI is a research department of Chalmers
  University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Academic research, Develops and maintains
  information management systems for industrial
  environmental applications
• Based on results from joint academic and
  industrial work since 1993.Resumé includes joint
  projects with ABB, Bombardier, Electrolux,
  Ericsson, IKEA, SAAB, SCA, Stora Enso, Volvo,
  Vattenfall etc.
• Currently 7 personnel

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Project information

• Supported by the European Union (EU) LIFE -
  Environment Programme
• Period 2002 2005 (August 31)
• Partners Akzo Nobel Chemistry ABB Heavy
  electrical equipment Stora Enso
  Forestry pulp and paper Chalmers University of
  Technology
• - Industrial Environmental Informatics

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DANTES goals

• Demonstrate and evaluate environmental assessment
  and communication tools
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Life Cycle Costing (LCC)
• Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA)
• Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)
• Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI)
• Focus on
• practical use of the tools within the
  participating companies
• apply these tools for decision-making within
  different parts of the company

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DANTES is a smorgasbord!
Environment
Economy
Life Cycle Cost
Environmental Management Systems
Eco-efficiency evaluation
Environmental Risk Assessment
CO2 emission trading
Exposure scenarios
LCA
Supplier evaluation
Key Performance Indicators
Environmental Product Declarations
Transportation and environment
Sustainability information on the WEB
Sustainability issues in RD
Energy efficiency
Environmental education
Communication
Engineering
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DANTES strategies

• DANTES strategies describe how and when to use
  different sustainability tools and methods in
  different functions within a company, focusing
  on
• Research Development (RD)
• Marketing
• Supply chain
• Production
• Environmental support

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Strategies definition in context of DANTES

• By strategy we mean
• A guideline on how the methods and tools
  described within DANTES, can be used to find
  requested information needed for environmentally
  related decisions, and how the resulting
  information is communicated to the
  decision-makers
• A strategy describes how to handle environmental
  issues in a company and to reach the overall
  environmental goals within the company

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Strategy the journey from a question to an
answer
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www.dantes.info the DANTES project website
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www.dantes.info the DANTES project website

• Each strategy is described in terms of
• Background
• Working procedure
• Experiences

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Example of a strategy on the DANTES website
Background
Title

• Purpose for using the strategy
• Target group
• Simplified description for the target group
• Context

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Example of a strategy on the DANTES website
Working procedure
Step-by-step description
Identification of used methods and tools
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Example of a strategy on the DANTES website
Experiences

• Success stories
• Resources needed
• Potential risks

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Strategies currently available on www.dantes.info

• Research Development
• Sustainability aspects in product development
• Environmental aspects in a gate model for the
  chemical industry
• Design for Environment
• Marketing
• Use of EPD in marketing
• Use of sustainability tools to answer questions
  from customers
• SPI in market communication
• Marketing tools for products

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Strategies currently available on www.dantes.info

• Supply chain
• Supply management
• Analysis of the environmental impact from
  transportation
• Use of EPIs in supply chain communication
• Production
• Implementing an Environmental Management System,
  EMS
• Analyzing and reducing energy use
• Greenhouse gas emission trading

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Strategies currently available on www.dantes.info

• Environmental support
• How to perform an LCA
• How to perform an EPD
• Material declaration and recycling description
• Handling and reporting environmental information
• Policy controlled environmental management
• Product stewardship implementation
• How to perform application specific Environmental
  Risk Assessment, ERA

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Strategy focus on the information need

• The DANTES strategies are focusing on the
  information need instead of on the tools
• The strategies have not been developed within
  DANTES. They have been selected and the selection
  have been strategically compiled and demonstrated
  on the DANTES web page

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Tools and Methods

• Strategies describe an integrated usage of many
  tools and methods to find the requested
  information needed for decision-making
• Require each tool and method to be described in
  terms of
• Scope
• Purpose for using the tool
• Leverage effect (efficiency of effort gt 1)
• Each tool and method has been analysed and
  structured based on practical experiences and
  knowledge about environmental informatics

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Tools and Methods described in DANTES

• Management tools
• Life Cycle Management
• Product Stewardship
• Environmental Management Systems
• Assessment tools
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Life Cycle Costing
• Environmental Risk Assessment
• Communication tools
• Environmental Product Declaration
• Environmental Performance Indicator
• Safety Data Sheets
• Other info
• ISO standards, EU legislation, Conventions
• Software
• Calculation and database tools

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Publications

• The DANTES website does also contain a lot of
  publication in terms of case studies, reports,
  description of methods, surveys
• Example of reports
• LCA studies performed by the ABB and Akzo Nobel
• EPDs performed by the ABB
• ERA studies performed by the Akzo Nobel
• Documentation of methods, tools, and guidelines
  provided by Chalmers, IMI

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Future

• After the end of the DANTES project the web site
  www.dantes.info will be maintained and updated of
  CPM

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More information

• www.dantes.info - the official DANTES website