Category Archives: Sustainable Business
When carbon is not enough: Comprehensive Ecological Rucksack Indicators for Products.
Burger, E., Hinterberger, F., Giljum, S., Manstein, C. (2009)
Paper presented at R’09 Twin World Congress in Davos.
Consumers increasingly demand more transparent information about the sustainability performance of products and services. Thus companies aim at measuring and communicating the environmental performance of products. But which indicators enable a consistent measurement of the environmental sustainability [...]
(Deutsch) Vergleichbare Kriterien für die Messung der Umwelt und Klimafreundlichkeit von Produkten – State of the Art
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(Deutsch) Wie kann man den Ressourcenverbrauch von Produkten richtig bewerten?
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Article about WEINKLIM findings published in DER WINZER
DER WINZER, the largest journal regarding winegrowing in German speaking countries, published an article of Eva Burger, Ines Omann, Sigrid Grünberger and the WEINKLIM-project partners in its latest issue. The article (title: “Ansatzpunkte zur Verringerung von Treibhausgasen”) deals with the results of SERI’s project [...]
(Deutsch) Messung und Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeitsqualität von Produkten – Eine Initiative österreichischer Unternehmen für die Entwicklung eines praktikablen, einheitlichen Standards im Rahmen von ECR-Austria
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(Deutsch) CO2 Label für Lebensmittelprodukte -Projekt ‚Entwicklung einer Kennzeichnung der transportbezogenen CO2 Emissionen von Lebensmittelprodukten‘ im Auftrag der Agrarmarkt Austria
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(Deutsch) SERI berechnete „ökologische Rucksäcke“ für das neue REWE-Nachhaltigkeitslabel ProPlanet
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Eva Burger on the 41st LCA Discussion Forum on Environmental product information and LCA
At the 22nd of June the 41st LCA Discussion Forum on Environmental product information and LCA was held in Ittigen, Switzerland. Eva Burger was invited to present “Austrian Initiatives on Environmental Product Information”.
At the discussion forum successful examples of environmental product information covering more than carbon footprints were presented and discussed. Furthermore [...]
Eco-innovation – putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy efficient economy
Bleischwitz, R., Bahn-Walkowiak, B., Irrek, W., Schepelmann, P., Schmidt-Bleek, F., Giljum, S., Lutter, S., Bohunovski, L., Hinterberger, F., Hawkins, E., Kuhndt, M., Pratt N. (2009)
In: Policy, E.P.P.D.-E.a.S. (Ed.), European Parliament, Brussels.
The objective of this study is to support the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee in its work on the EU’s industrial and energy policy [...]
Measuring Performance towards Sustainable Consumption and Production. Types of Indicators and Indicator Sets.
Lutter, S., Prigmaier, E., Frühmann, J., Burger, E., Mayr, M., Polzin, C. (2009)
This booklet “Measuring Performance towards Sustainable Consumption and Production – Types of Indicators and Indicator Sets” has been published under the framework of the “Action Town – Research and Action for Sustainable Consumption and Production” project. The booklet is part of a [...]
