PROREGIS

Productivity Registry – Center for Resource Productivity Factors for Wealth Creation

- Feasibility study for the implementation of a database for material input and flow data.

Together with the Factor 10 Innovation Network SERI elaborated a feasibility study for a database on material input ad flow data on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the National Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation, and Technology (BMVIT).

Main purpose of the PROREGIS would be to provide decision makers and research with solid, consistent and updated data. The registry should provide information on material inputs per service units (MIPS), material input factors for materials and data for material annual per capita consumption for countries as well as results on material-efficiency and productivity.

Main tasks of PROREGIS would be:

• Development of methods

• International harmonisation of methods

• Development and publication of methodological handbooks

• Continuous actualisation of the data

• Regular publications on trends in material input and consumption

• Production of new data

• Development of land use related data

• Organisation of training courses for science and companies

• Cooperation with companies, policy, consumer organisations, NGOs and other stakeholders

• Elaboration of studies on policy measures to reduce material consumption and increase material-efficiency and productivity

Potential user of the registry would be:

• Companies across all sectors and consulters

• Administration and statistical offices

• National and regional governments

• International organisations

• Cities

• Consumer organisations

• Organisations that estimate price-quality relations and environmental impacts of products

• Educational organisations

• Media

Such a registry could help to promote the ideas of dematerialisation and eco-efficiency on a product level, in companies, sectors and national economies as well as on the local, regional and international scale.

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