DANTES

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DANTES
A demonstration project for sustainable
development

• Chalmers University of TechnologyIndustrial
  Environmental Informatics
• Markus ErlandssonRaul Carlson
• Karolina Flemström

October 25, 2004EcoBalance, Tsukuba, Japan
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Content of this presentation

• General information and goal on the DANTES
  project
• Strategies aimed at different company functions
• Tools and methods for environmental assessment
  and communication
• Publications

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Project information

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

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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 goals

• Display strategies of how 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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Strategy the journey from a question to an
answer

Operational strategy isinformation management
i.e. Industrial Environmental Informatics
expertise
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Strategy focus on the information neeed

• 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
• A first set of 12 strategies are going to be
  publicly available on DANTES website 1 of
  November 2004

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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

• This strategy will be presented in detail in
  session D tomorrow. The name of that presentation
  is Standards and tools for environmental design
  and supply chain in railway industry

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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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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 and Akzo Nobel
• ERA studies performed by the Akzo Nobel
• Documentation of methods, tools, and guidelines
  provided by Chalmers, IMI

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More information

• www.dantes.info - the official DANTES website