For the organizations who need to calculate and update environmental footprints and improve their performance

EcoModules - connecting partners and improving environmental performance

What is EcoModules?

• Novel IT concept which facilitates the production of scientifically relevant life cycle assessments (LCAs) for food products.

• Provides cost-effective, easy and reliable platform for both service suppliers and chain actors

• Boosts environmental improvements on every phase of the production chain due to real primary data based calculation

• Enables positive co-development between chain actors

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Why EcoModules is important ?

Growing interest towards sustainable food products

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• Food production and consumption contributes greatly to environment • For example 25-30% of climate impact of consumption are due

to consumption of food • Consumers are willing to make sustainable food choices • Retailers and manufactures are willing to offer consumers

sustainable food products • Also the environmental management system standards of

production are being developed and tightened

Consumers need increasingly more information on environmental impacts of food products

There is a need for innovation to improve environmental performance of production

Ecomodules will tackle the following challenges

• Production chain specific life cycle assessment (LCA) offers a reliable basis to inform consumers about environmental impacts of the products • It also boosts best environmental improvements along the

production chain • This kind of effective and reliable LCA has been difficult,

time-consuming and costly • Need for regular updating of assessment emphasizes this

challenge • One of the major challenges relates to confidential data that

should be gathered from other players of the production chain

• Data quality requirements are also not always met in this task

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MTT Agrifood Research Finland has a long experience on production chain specific LCA. Now we have created a novel solution to gather, analyse and deliver the information along the food

chain.

EcoModules is a diverse platform that creates co-operation

• EcoModules is an effective management system for those who prefer to produce reliable LCA easily for food products relying on real primary data

• It is based on customer-tailored applications, cloud technology, shared scientific calculation rules and verified data

• It connects partners along the food chain by supporting sharing of LCA results between partners

• In addition customer-tailored applications can satisfy other management needs, such as cost accounting. In this way they support customers’ business and environmental performance

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EcoModules helps to improve environmental performance

• Brand related real primary data –based information gives motivation to improve production manners

• Supports focusing on crucial environmental hotspots in the entire food chain

• Increases possibilities for consumers to influence on state of environment by choices between products

• Enables actors financially benefit from the positive development of their processes

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Benefits of EcoModules solution

• Makes the production of effective and reliable LCAs easy • Scientifically relevant calculation rules • Cooperation between science and business • Validation of data and data production processes • Transparency

• Cuts the calculation costs significantly • enables wide-ranking production of verified LCAs and their

updating

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EcoModules offers business possibilities for customer-tailored applications

• MTT is now piloting the solution with companies and is searching for partners to offer customer applications

• EcoModules includes • access to data bank services; calculation, data delivering and supportive

data reserve • methodological guidelines • process to establish and maintain guidelines • process to validate the data • additional services

• More information: www.mtt.fi/ecomodules

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