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It is this time of the year! but make it LCA

📣 Exciting news for Ecochain Mobius subscribers!
📣 Introducing unlimited 20-Minute Talk to an Expert sessions!
🌏 As part of your Ecochain Mobius subscription, you now have access to unlimited 20-minute sessions to Talk to an Expert!
📞📲 Going forward, you can connect directly with our support specialist to book these valuable check in calls and receive instant help by dialling (020) 214 23 85.
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🌍♻️ Is a one-day sale worth the environmental toll of our overconsumption? Think twice before clicking 'buy' - online shopping and fast deliveries are contributing to a much larger carbon footprint than we realise. Let's consider the true cost of our purchases this Black Friday.

Our upcoming webinar explores the power of life cycle assessment (LCA) in designing sustainable products. Learn from Ecochain experts as they delve into transformative potential of LCA. Mark your calendars for December 13th at 12:00 PM CET!
🖇️ Register through link in bio 🖇️

🌿Does carbon offsetting even work? In a world striving for sustainability, the concept of carbon offsetting has gained prominence.

🤓 Let's have a look which factors companies should consider before jumping into carbon offsetting if they want to make an actual change. Let's make informed choices for effective change!

🍵 vs. ☕️ Hot dilemma

🌱 According to an LCA analysis by Hedgehog Company, the environmental impact of tea is lower than coffee’s, but there’s a twist! Tea requires extra water and land to produce, showing there’s more to your cup than meets the eye.

🌏 Want to learn more about LCA and why it’s essential to conduct one? Read our latest blog article, link in bio🖇️

👑 DATA IS KING 👑

📊When it comes to assessing environmental impact, there are two key data paths: primary and secondary. What is the difference?

🔍 Primary data: This is your unique, firsthand data, that has been collected directly from the source.

📦 Secondary data: Pre-existing data from sources like extensive Ecoinvent database, it’s efficient but requires careful selection.

We always advocate for primary data, but in times of complexity or challenge, secondary data from EcoInvent steps in, offering valuable insights.

🥧 Slicing into Sustainability: Case of making an apple pie

🌏 For every company that produces products, the biggest impact is usually in how the product is designed and produced. Let us take you on a journey of the environmental impact of apple pie. With Mobius, data becomes insight, empowering eco-conscious choices.

🍏Explore what has the highest impact in your favourite dessert. Want to try it with your own product? Watch our Demo video and learn how - link in bio!

🌱Measuring the carbon footprint of a product is undoubtedly a vital step toward assessing its environmental impact, but it's only a piece of the sustainability puzzle. To gain a comprehensive understanding of a product's true ecological footprint, a complete Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is essential. What is more sustainable, cotton or polyester? You might be surprised, swipe through to find out which material has lower environmental impact!

Different Tools, Shared Vision 🌱💡
While Canva empowers non-designers to create stunning visuals, Ecochain focuses on sustainability and product footprint data 📊

Life cycle assessment, once complex and costly, is now accessible to product designers and manufacturers, thanks to Ecochain Mobius.

Curious to learn how we can help you on your eco journey? Check Mud Jeans inspiring case study through the link in our bio 🔗

From all of us at Ecochain, we wish you a very happy and healthy New Years! ✨

Our New Year's resolution is to help even more companies understand and reduce their environmental footprint, in 2022 and further!

What is your sustainable resolution for the coming year?

How to turn the heads of consumers in a saturated market?

You know what to do…

The customer use phase can take up to 80% (!!) of your product’s total environmental footprint.

The majority of a product’s life span often takes place in the time it’s used by consumers.

Meaning: measuring the environmental footprint all the life phases of your product is crucial. ♻️

You might be thinking, isn’t this the responsibility of the consumer?

Well- the way your product is designed, heavily influences the way it’s used. And that’s why the sustainability in your product’s use phase is often considered your responsibility.

By analysing how customers use your products, you can identify certain pinpoints that might result in damage to the environment.

It’s 1969 - We put a man on the moon, and we conducted the first Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All in one year.

Did you know The Coca-Cola Company was the first company to conduct an LCA? 🧐

The goal? Comparing beverage containers to find lowest releases to the environment.

This included: quantifying raw materials, fuels, and environmental of manufacturing processes.

A good start.

In the 90's International Standards Organization (ISO) published a new and improved LCA standard.

Fast forward to 2021 - It’s still the standard for LCA used today.

Maybe Coca Cola didn’t invent the modern LCA. But they will forever be linked to the first attempts of environmental footprinting.

'The rest of my company won't understand sustainability- it's too difficult'

But you need them on your side, don’t you?

Working as a team on goals such as sustainability is essential!

So, follow these 5 simple tips to help you get there. 👇

Breaking News: there is more to the story than lowering your CO2 emissions.💥

Don’t get us wrong – CO2 emissions are a ‘hot’ topic for a reason.

BUT concentrating on them solely is like trying to solve a puzzle using the same piece over and over again.

As we know by now, tackling climate change takes a few more pieces.

What can you do? Measure the FULL environmental scope of your value chain. Think of biodiversity, water, waste etc.

This way we don’t forget about the ‘environment’ in environmental footprint.🌱

Vandaag en morgen vindt de Vakbeurs Openbare Ruimte plaats in Utrecht!

Een geweldig moment om inspirerende mensen en partijen te ontmoeten van alle sectoren in de . Licht, Bestrating, Bouw & Infra, Advies & Beheer- noem het maar op.

♻️ In 2050 moeten onze steden en dorpen , en zijn. Een flinke opgave waar veel bedrijven in de openbare ruimte all actief en innovatief mee bezig zijn.

We kijken er daarom naar uit om morgen iedereen te zien en over alle nieuwe ontwikkelingen te horen.

Ook komen? De toegangskaarten zijn gratis en kun je hier aanvragen: https://bit.ly/3zxjIIj

The new proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive aims to ensure that a larger scope of companies (about 50.000 companies more) across all sectors publicly disclose even more detailed and transparent information on:

(1) How affects their own business (risks and opportunities – outside-in perspective);
2) The impacts they have on both people and our environment (inside-out perspective).

This type of reporting is called: "double materiality perspective". Because it reflects both the inwards and outwards impacts of a company:

👉 Company/financial materiality = inwards impact.

👉 Societal & environmental impact/impact materiality = outwards impact.

What are your thoughts on double materiality? Read the full guide on the CSRD right here: https://bit.ly/3nDFqYH

👉 How consumers use your product can sometimes take up to 80% (!!) of your product’s total environmental footprint.

And if you think about it, this doesn’t really come as a surprise. The majority of a product’s life span often takes place in the time it’s used by consumers.

Consumers wash, maintain, and use your products. That takes up energy, water, and consumption of specific maintenance products (e.g. cleaning products/repairs).

Now- the way you design your product heavily influences the ways in which it’s used. And that’s why in your product’s use phase is considered your responsibility. ♻️

What should you consider when measuring the of your product's use phase?

Read the full article on how to measure your product's use phase right here: https://bit.ly/3k6XuYX

, , strategy, carbon/climate neutrality, or net-zero. When companies talk about their sustainability strategy, they mostly focus on ‘carbon’ or ‘climate’ terminology. For good reason of course:

👉 Carbon emissions often make up the largest impact hotspot in a company’s operations. And greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are THE term that is linked to the climate crisis.

👉 But, by constantly focusing on carbon- or greenhouse gas emissions- aren’t we forgetting the rest of the ‘environment’ in environmental footprint? What are the risks of a tunnel vision on carbon/GHG emissions in your sustainability strategy?

♻️ Simply put: solely focusing on climate impact, can result in too much focus on a single issue in your sustainability strategy. By doing so, you can potentially exclude other relevant impact outcomes that could heavily impact both the environment as well as your reduction efforts.

So, how can businesses make sure they incorporate all impact outcomes in their sustainability strategy? Find out: https://bit.ly/3j384zN

Great! You measured your environmental footprint and can now identify the emission hotspots in your business operations.

You know exactly where to focus your reduction efforts now. But..where do you start? 🤔

may seem a great option, however, it’s not a long-term solution.

So, it’s time to start building your emissions reduction strategy from the bottom up. Your reduction strategy should provide a short- to medium-term roadmap. Say, 1 to 5 years- to implement measures to reduce emissions.

How to turn this into a success? By following these 5 steps provided by our fantastic sustainability partner Nexio Projects👇

Read the full guest blog by Nexio on how to develop an effective reduction strategy right here: https://bit.ly/3z4MG2N

👉 Meld je nu aan voor de 20ste jubileum editie van het Nationaal Sustainability Congres op 11 november!

Met een topprogramma- waarin onder andere onze eigen specialist Roel Drost samen met onze geweldige klant Vermaat zullen spreken- kan het niet anders dan dat dit jaar weer een inspirerend evenement wordt.

Tot 1 september kun je nog inschrijven met een vroegboekkorting van €100 via de onderstaande link. Ook studenten zijn uiteraard van harte welkom. Bij het tonen van je studentenkaart kosten tickets slechts € 75,- (excl. BTW.)

Er zijn al meer dan 300 kaarten geboekt- dus wees er snel bij!

Wij kijken er naar uit om iedereen te ontmoeten en van elkaar te leren. ♻️

Nationaal Sustainability Congres 2021 - Nationaal Sustainability Congres 2021 20e editie Nationaal Sustainability Congres - 11 november 2021- Gooiland Hilversum

's message was clear: Immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a necessity to limit the changes connected to exceeding 1.5°C of global warming.

👉 So- what can business leaders do?

Our collective strategy has to come down to ceasing our use of fossil fuels, using clean energy sources, and going all the way to net-zero. Most importantly- we have to act now.

By adhering to the Paris Goals, cutting greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero, and using Science-based Targets, businesses make both themselves- as well as our planet: future-proof.

♻️ Below you will find our 5 steps towards net-zero that will help business leaders ensure their climate strategy adheres to the 1.5°C-2°C goal.

Read the full article on the 5 steps towards net-zero, right here: https://bit.ly/3iWeS2e

Almost 70% of the tenants of logistics real estate in the Netherlands take sustainability into account when making location decisions.

This makes the Netherlands a global leader- France coming in second place with 55%.

This international research 'The future of global logistics real estate' executed by JLL, asked for the opinions of 720 logistics experts in 42 countries. It reveals that 75% of the respondents expect logistic real estate to grow with 5%- up to 20% in the coming three years.

Combined with this growth, comes the pressing urgency of efforts. Especially the urgency for CO2 reduction measures in energy efficiency processes.

Explore the survey results right here: https://bit.ly/3m8qlxA

Did you know that the use phase of apparel is the second biggest driver? 👕

Common sense makes it sound simple. The more wear we get out of a piece of clothing, the lower the overall impact. We distribute the impact of the production across a longer time – the “environmental footprint per wear” becomes lower.

But there is a catch to that logic.

A big chunk of the carbon footprint of a piece of clothing actually occurs in the use phase – often more than 23%. Washing, drying, ironing – a lot of energy and water go into keeping our clothing fresh, clean, and beautiful.

So, paradoxically, we could save a quarter of our clothing’s carbon footprint by never washing it. 🤯

In the past, there was always a fear that becoming more meant- making less money.

However, nothing could be more untrue- as BlackRock's research show.

♻️ BlackRock manages more than 9 trillion US dollars in assets, which makes them the world’s biggest asset manager.

♻️ And their latest research on the UN Sustainable Development Goals ( ) shows: Making SDG impact is closely tied to financial impact.

So, how exactly do the SDG indicators overlap with financial impact? What opportunities await? 👇

BlackRock research reveals: Sustainability results in long-term financial performance - Ecochain Make money and save the planet? Definitely possible. BlackRock research found that the cost of not achieving the UN SDGs is greater than the cost of action.

The Environmental Profit & Loss account is a method for placing a monetary valuation on a company’s footprint. Including the environmental and social impact derived from all its business operations and entire supply chain.

So, why is an EP&L so useful?

👉 An EP&L account is expressed in economical valuations (£, $ and €) instead of different environmental impact outcomes such as kg CO₂-eq or kg CFC-11-eq.

👉 This enables organizations to compare and consolidate different types of environmental impact (such as climate change, particulate matter, or toxicities). Environmental impact can now be expressed in a single indicator.

EP&L expresses in terms that all businesses understand. It talks money.

So, which companies work with EP&L accounts? And most importantly- how do they use their results?

What’s an Environmental Profit & Loss account? And how do companies use it? - Ecochain Environmental Profit & Loss Accounting (EP&L), is a great method for measuring and quantifying the environmental impact of an organization’s activities. How does it work?

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De Milieuprestatie Gebouwen ( ) geeft de milieuprestatie van een gebouw weer in één enkele score, uitgedrukt in Euro’s. Wat is het precies? Waarom is het zo'n belangrijk onderdeel in de Nederlandse ?

♻️ De Nederlandse bouwsector is aanzienlijk aan het verduurzamen. Naast bouwbedrijven en leveranciers worden nu ook voor gebouwen steeds strengere milieu eisen gevraagd. Een van deze bepalende eisen is de MPG.

👉 De MPG geeft bij alle materialen die in een gebouw worden toegepast aan wat hun milieubelasting (milieu-impact) is.

♻️ Het gaat hierbij om nieuwe gebouwen in de Burgerlijke en Utiliteitsbouw (B&U): nieuwe kantoorgebouwen die groter zijn dan 100m² en nieuwbouwwoningen. Maar ook in de GWW (Grond/Weg/Waterbouw) wordt de MPG een opkomend criterium voor leveranciers in aanbestedingen.

♻️ Kort gezegd is de MPG, de Milieu Kosten Indicator (MKI) per m2/per jaar voor een gebouw. Beiden scores worden op dezelfde wijze berekend: door middel van een Levenscyclusanalyse (LCA), weegfactoren, en een gerelateerde geldwaarde (€). Alleen wordt bij de MPG, de gedeeld door het oppervlakte/jaar van het desbetreffende gebouw.

Lees alles over het toenemende belang van de MPG door op de onderstaande link te klikken.

Milieuprestatie Gebouwen (MPG) - Hoe maak je een Milieuprestatieberekening? Voor gebouwen worden steeds strengere milieu eisen gevraagd. Een van deze bepalende eisen is de Milieuprestatie Gebouwen (MPG). Hoe wordt de MPG berekend?

Biobased Bouwen wordt gezien als een van de wegen naar een compleet circulaire bouwsector. Wat is het precies? Wat zijn de voor- en nadelen?

♻️Biobased bouwen is het gebruik van bouwmaterialen die compleet of gedeeltelijk uit biologische en hernieuwbare grondstoffen bestaan. Denk hierbij aan hout of verschillende grassoorten. Ook ‘biomimicry‘- het nadoen van natuurlijke structuren, processen en technieken- kan hierin worden meegenomen.

👉 Biobased bouwmaterialen hebben vele voordelen; ze slaan (bijna allemaal) CO2 op, zijn snel hernieuwbaar door korte levenscycli, en gebruiken vaak reststromen van land-, tuin- en bosbouw.

👉 Het gebruik van materialen wordt dan ook steeds belangrijker. Nederland wil d.m.v. het Rijksbrede programma 'Nederland Circulair' in 2030, 50% minder primaire grondstoffen gebruiken (mineralen, metalen en fossiel).

👉 Maar 'biobased' staat niet altijd gelijk voor 'duurzaam'. Voor het verbouwen van biobased grondstoffen is namelijk vaak veel landgebruik nodig. Dit kan veel schadelijke gevolgen hebben voor het milieu.

Lees alles over de duurzame voor- en nadelen van biobased bouwmaterialen in het onderstaande artikel.

Biobased Bouwen - Wat is het & wat zijn de voordelen? - Ecochain Biobased bouwen wordt gezien als een van de wegen die ons lijdt naar een compleet circulaire bouwsector. Maar, wat houdt het precies in? Wat zijn de voordelen?