Overview

We offer life cycle method related services at the interface between industry and policy and particularly in the context of the European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and it’s International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook and ILCD / LCDN Data Network, which we have both technically lead from 2005 to 2012, while working at the Commission and which we are continueing to support in various projects for industry, government bodies, and for other consulting companies ever since.

Our second main area of work is the Digital Product Passports (DPP) under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), including a service contract for European Commission developing and testing the method on scoping and the granlarity of DPPs under future Delegated Acts.

Drawing on our personal experience of jointly 50+ years working experience in Life Cycle Assessment and related areas in consulting (maki, PE Europe/PE International/thinkstep/Sphera), government (European Commission, Thai NSTDA/MTEC), and research (University of Stuttgart, Technical University of Berlin), our two core staff provide solution-oriented senior-level services of outstanding quality, offering added value and client-oriented flexibility in timing and scope of project implementation.

Areas of expertise:

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Product Environmental Footprinting (PEF), Digital Product Passport (DPP), Corporate and Product Carbon Footprinting (CF) and Carbon strategies, Resource-efficiency studies and indicators, Water Footprinting, Social LCA, Integrated Sustainability Assessment

Services offered:

  • Strategic advice
  • Methodology, policy, and standards analysis and development
  • Reviews of data and studies
  • Data set and database development, software development
  • Moderation of stakeholder processes
  • Capacity building and expert courses
  • Roadmap development, establishment of in-house LCA expert groups in private and public bodies

Working languages offered:
English, German, Thai. Requests in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian language are welcome.

European Commission ‘Methodology for defining data requirements for the Digital Product Passport under the ESPR framework’ published, co-authored by maki staff

The European Commission ‘Methodology for defining data requirements for the Digital Product Passport under the ESPR framework’ (link to landing page) has been published. This 2026 report presents a practical, step-by-step methodology to define a proposal of which data should be included in Digital Product Passports (DPPs) under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), and …

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Circular Economy Formula (CEF) – a new, inherently closed-loop, attributional substitution approach for LCA, 2023

A new way of modelling of secondary products (materials, energy, parts, …) as input to and output from product systems has been developed by us: the Circular Economy Formula (CEF). The basic idea of this approach is that everything that is kept in the loop, i.e. handed back to the economy during End of Life …

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Open Public Consultation “Green claims” PEF/OEF based policy development

The EC is proposing an LCA-based Regulation to substantiate environmental claims on products&organisations, based on the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and Organisation Environmental Footprint (OEF). maki is supporting the Policy Impact Assessment on this initiative as contractor, jointly with Bio Innovation and RPA. Stakeholder workshops on 16-17 and on 24 November 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/GreenClaimsWorkshop) are part …

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Eingeladener Vortrag in Ringvorlesung an FH Pforzheim, 17. Oktober 2019

Am 17. Oktober eröffnete Herr Dr. Wolf die Ringvorlesung Ressourceneffizienz und Nachhaltigkeit, organisiert vom Institut für Industrial Ecology (INEC) der FH Pforzheim, mit einem Vortrag zum Umweltlichen Fußabdruck (Environmental footprint) der Europäischen Kommission. Die Zusammenfassung gibt es hier in einem Nachbericht zum Nachlesen: https://www.hs-pforzheim.de/forschung/institute/inec/detailansicht/news/ringvorlesung_environmental_footprint

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Environmental benefits of recyclability – White paper with guidance, data sources, illustrative example

Recyclability and recoverability are the scope of EN 45555 (under development), following a mass-based approach. This White paper provides guidance on possible ways how to quantitatively consider in addition the net environmental benefits of recyclability and recoverability, complementing the mass-based approach. Possible data sources as well as a worked illustrative exmple complete this short white …

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