A guide to support the selection of product-related environmental performance indicators

The establishment of measurable goals and performance indicators are a fundamental element of any successful ecodesign program, as they can provide an early warning to prevent environmental damage. In this Guide, you are invited to know how to use environmental performance indicators (EPIs) to change the way your products are developed by considering their environmental performance.

This Guide is intended primarily to environmental managers responsible to define the set of indicators to measure the environmental performance of products, but it can also be useful for product developers and all staff of a company looking to measure the environmental performance of their products. The Guide is composed by the full text here presented, a support material illustrating the five step approach in selecting EPIs, and a digital database containing more than 250 EPIs.

This guide was developed by Isabela Issa at the Nucleus of Advanced Manufacturing (NUMA), in collaboration with the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The financial support was provided by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

确立可量化目标与绩效指标，是任何成功的生态设计（ecodesign）项目的核心要素，其可提供早期预警以防范环境损害。本指南将指导您如何运用环境绩效指标（environmental performance indicators, EPIs），通过考量产品的环境表现，革新产品开发模式。
本指南主要面向负责制定指标体系以衡量产品环境绩效的环境管理人员，同时也可为产品开发人员及所有希望评估产品环境表现的企业员工提供参考价值。
本指南由本次呈现的完整文本、一套阐释EPIs遴选五步流程的辅助材料，以及一个收录超过250项EPIs的数字数据库组成。
本指南由先进制造核心实验室（Nucleus of Advanced Manufacturing, NUMA）的伊莎贝拉·伊萨（Isabela Issa）联合圣保罗大学（University of São Paulo, USP）与丹麦技术大学（Technical University of Denmark, DTU）共同开发，研究经费由圣保罗研究基金会（São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP）资助。