Digital Product Passport: The ticket to achieving a climate neutral and circular economy?

Speakers will include:

• Tahmid Chowdhury, Industry Programme Manager, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
• Jakop Dalunde MEP, Greens, European Parliament
• Thomas Goetz, Co-Head of Research Unit Energy Policy, Wuppertal Institut
• William Neale, Adviser on Circular Economy and Green Growth, European Commission
• Valeria Botta, Programme Manager, ECOS
• Céline Carré, Head of Public Affairs, Saint-Gobain
• Baijia Huang, Group Sustainability Manager, Rockwool [online]
• Jørgen Hanson, Sustainability Manager, Group Sustainability at Norsk Hydro [online]

Learn more about the potentially powerful role of Digital Product Passports in increasing circularity and creating markets for low-carbon materials and products.

Context and background

This high-level event will be centred around the launch of a new report on the Digital Products Passport (DPP). The event will provide a space for key stakeholders to discuss the role that DPPs could play in enabling a successful industrial transition towards sustainable development, and their importance in wider climate debates. The event will explore what DPPs could look like, how they could be implemented, and what benefits and potential barriers businesses consider to their implementation. The report seeks to encourage progressive advocacy in this EU policy debate. The event will feature representatives from the Materials & Products Taskforce member’s businesses, European policymakers and third-party representatives.

The event is co-organised by the authors of the paper, CLG Europe’s Taskforce for Climate Neutral and Circular Materials and Products, in association with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.

CLG Europe’s Taskforce on Climate Neutral and Sustainable Materials and Products is a group of progressive businesses across sectors and value chains. Our objective is to drive the development, implementation and support of more ambitious, future-proof policies, programmes, and initiatives in Europe to create an ecosystem that more rapidly shifts away from the energy and resource intensive production of materials to materials that are produced without using fossil fuels or emitting greenhouse gases (GHG) as by-products.

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is a German research institution for sustainability research concentrating on impacts and practical application. It explores and develops models, strategies, and instruments to support sustainable development at local, national, and international levels.