A common framework, enabling companies to undertake carbon footprints for paper and board products
In 2007, CEPI, the Confederation of European Paper Industries was one of the first to propose
a common framework, enabling companies to undertake carbon footprints for paper and board
products, as there was no standardised approach for their development at that time. Since then,
three major internationally-recognised product-related carbon footprint protocols and frameworks
have been published, namely:
− The “Greenhouse gases – Carbon footprint of products – Requirements and guidelines
for quantification and communication†technical specification from the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO/TS 14067:2013);
− The Product Life Cycle Accounting and Reporting Standard (Product Standard) from the
World Resource Institute (WRI) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development
(WBCSD) GHG Protocol published in 2011;
− The European Commission Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Category Rules (PEFCR)
for Intermediate Paper Products (Final Draft PEFCR for stakeholder consultation, May
2016);1
− A revision of this common framework has now been undertaken to update the methods in
order to be more aligned with the methods proposed in these guidance documents.
This common framework aims to bring forward the attributes of our products and show the way to
obtain the most useful information possible