Consumer demands on Type III environmental declarations

Executive summary and recommendations

We have analysed the main consumer demands on environmental declarations as well as consumer concerns on EPDs, structured under four headings:

• Comprehensibility and comparability of the environmental information
• Reliability of data
• Completeness of the environmental information
• Adequate stakeholder involvement

The analysis results in a number of recommendations for consumer demands on standardisation for each of these items.

Ten example EPDs have been produced to demonstrate how the recommendations can work in practice.