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The Environmental Footprint is a set of methodologies to assess the environmental performance of products and organisations. The Joint Research Centre helps to:
- support the development of the EF, building methods and data based on the International Life Cycle Data format
- define the requirements to perform EF studies
- provide valuable and up-to-date data
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Monetary valuation
Monetary valuation in life cycle assessment translates environmental impacts into economic terms, helping reveal externalities and support fair comparisons between alternatives. By expressing impacts…
Environmental Footprint - JRC's contribution
The Environmental Footprint is a methodology to assess the environmental performance of products and organisations. Here, you can explore the pivotal contribution of the Joint Research Centre to the methodology.
Environmental Footprint - Transition Phase
In this page, we recapitulate the key documents provided by the JRC in support of the Environmental Footprint's transition phase.
Environmental Footprint Impact Assessment
The table below presents the evolution of the life cycle impact assessment methods in the different stages of the Environmental Footprint. The changes of impact assessment models with respect to the previous EF…
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Environmental Footprint Initiative - Agricultural Working Group Milestone 4
The Environmental Footprint (EF) methods endorsed by the European Commission offer standardized metrics for assessing the environmental impacts of products and organizations within the EU. This report details the findings...
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