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12-05-2016 | Schwerpunktthema

Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Fortschritt oder Rückschritt für die Ökobilanzforschung?

Authors: Annekatrin Lehmann, Vanessa Bach, Matthias Finkbeiner

Published in: Sustainability Nexus Forum | Issue 1/2016

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Abstract

The ongoing EU PEF pilot phase develops specific rules for selected product categories based on the PEF-method aiming at analyzing life-cycle environmental impacts of products. Key challenges of the method and the pilot phase are presented in this article.

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Footnotes
1
PEFCRs sind lebenswegbasierte Regeln, die die PEF-Methode ergänzen, indem sie spezifische Regeln für die untersuchte Produktgruppe bereit stellen (European Commission 2015a).
 
2
Die Pilotprojekte (bzw. die sogenannten Technical Secretariats (TS) mit Vertretern aus Industrie, Wissenschaft, NGOs etc.) entwickeln die Entwürfe und finalen Versionen der PEFCRs. Zeitgleich mit der Entwicklung der PEFCR-Entwürfe werden PEF-Screening-Studien (mit den repräsentativen Produkten einer Produktgruppe) durchgeführt, um die entwickelten PEFCRs weiter zu entwickeln und zu verfeinern. Basierend auf den PEFCR-Entwürfen werden die Supporting Studien (mit realen Produkten) durchgeführt, die überprüfen, ob der PEFCR in der Realität anwendbar ist.
 
3
Es wurden beispielsweise Workshops organisiert und Arbeitsgruppen gebildet, um Herausforderungen in Zusammenhang mit der Wirkungsabschätzung, Gewichtung und Recycling-Allokation zu diskutieren und mögliche Lösungen bzw. einen Konsens zu finden.
 
4
Mögliche Anwendungen des PEF umfassen z. B. die interne Anwendung in Unternehmen zur Analyse von Umweltwirkungen oder die externe Anwendung zur umweltbezogenen Produktinformation für Konsumenten.
 
5
Produktkategorieregeln (product category rules – PCR) basieren auf der ISO 14025. Sie sind damit die „ISO-Variante“ der auf der PEF-Methode basierenden PEFCR.
 
6
Die potentiell aus einer PEF-Studie resultierenden Handlungsempfehlungen können so der Europäischen Abfallrahmenrichtlinie 2008/98/EG (European Union 2008) widersprechen, die das stoffliche Recycling dem thermischen vorzieht.
 
7
Ein mögliches zukünftiges PEF-Label könnte dadurch Aussagen treffen, die bereits existierenden europäischen Labels wie der „Eco Flower“ (European Commission 2010) entgegenstehen.
 
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Metadata
Title
Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Fortschritt oder Rückschritt für die Ökobilanzforschung?
Authors
Annekatrin Lehmann
Vanessa Bach
Matthias Finkbeiner
Publication date
12-05-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Sustainability Nexus Forum / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 2948-1619
Electronic ISSN: 2948-1627
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-016-0388-5

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