Handling and reporting environmental information

The working procedure was developed in a co-operation project between the Swedish Forest Industries and Chalmers University of Technology. It was successfully implemented and tested in five companies: Kappa, Korsnäs, M-real, SCA and Stora Enso.

The experiences from the implementations are that this strategy:

• Improves structure and organizes environmental data in an orderly manner.
• Enhances the possibility to reuse data for new applications, e.g. Emission Trading and Integrated Product Policy, IPP.
• Facilitates transparency and verification of data.
• Can be adapted to complex as well as simple production systems and products.
• Is cost efficient to implement.

Business value 
No analysis of the strategy's potential to save money or time has been conducted. However, it was the common understanding during the development of the strategy that it would save resources. Depending on the degree of integration with the organizations environmental management system and the complexity of the environmental information, the efforts to implement the strategy varies. For this reason some of the participating companies mentioned above have chosen not to make use of the strategy, while others find it useful and adding business value.