1. For the organizations who need to calculate and update environmental
footprints and improve their performance
EcoModules - connecting partners and
improving environmental performance

2. What is EcoModules?
• Novel IT concept which facilitates the production of
scientifically relevant life cycle assessments (LCAs) for food
products.
• Provides cost-effective, easy and reliable platform for both
service suppliers and chain actors
• Boosts environmental improvements on every phase of the
production chain due to real primary data based calculation
• Enables positive co-development between chain actors
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3. Why EcoModules is important ?

4. Growing interest towards
sustainable food products
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• Food production and consumption contributes greatly to
environment
• For example 25-30% of climate impact of consumption are due
to consumption of food
• Consumers are willing to make sustainable food choices
• Retailers and manufactures are willing to offer consumers
sustainable food products
• Also the environmental management system standards of
production are being developed and tightened

5. Consumers need increasingly more information on
environmental impacts of food products
There is a need for innovation to improve
environmental performance of production

6. Ecomodules will tackle the following challenges
• Production chain specific life cycle assessment (LCA) offers
a reliable basis to inform consumers about environmental
impacts of the products
• It also boosts best environmental improvements along the
production chain
• This kind of effective and reliable LCA has been difficult,
time-consuming and costly
• Need for regular updating of assessment emphasizes this
challenge
• One of the major challenges relates to confidential data that
should be gathered from other players of the production
chain
• Data quality requirements are also not always met in this task
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7. MTT Agrifood Research Finland has a
long experience on production chain
specific LCA. Now we have created a
novel solution to gather, analyse and
deliver the information along the food
chain.

8. EcoModules is a diverse platform that
creates co-operation
• EcoModules is an effective management system for those
who prefer to produce reliable LCA easily for food products
relying on real primary data
• It is based on customer-tailored applications, cloud
technology, shared scientific calculation rules and verified
data
• It connects partners along the food chain by supporting
sharing of LCA results between partners
• In addition customer-tailored applications can satisfy other
management needs, such as cost accounting. In this way they
support customers’ business and environmental performance
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10. EcoModules helps to improve environmental
performance
• Brand related real primary data –based information gives
motivation to improve production manners
• Supports focusing on crucial environmental hotspots in
the entire food chain
• Increases possibilities for consumers to influence on state
of environment by choices between products
• Enables actors financially benefit from the positive
development of their processes
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11. Benefits of EcoModules solution
• Makes the production of effective and reliable LCAs easy
• Scientifically relevant calculation rules
• Cooperation between science and business
• Validation of data and data production processes
• Transparency
• Cuts the calculation costs significantly
• enables wide-ranking production of verified LCAs and their
updating
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12. EcoModules offers business possibilities for
customer-tailored applications
• MTT is now piloting the solution with companies and is
searching for partners to offer customer applications
• EcoModules includes
• access to data bank services; calculation, data delivering and supportive
data reserve
• methodological guidelines
• process to establish and maintain guidelines
• process to validate the data
• additional services
• More information: www.mtt.fi/ecomodules
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13. Thank You!