Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) provide information as a factual description of the environmental performance of products and services from a life cycle perspective. One of the most important areas of application EPD:s is green procurement.

The international EPD^®system is founded by Swedish Environmental Management Council based on a business initiative. Ever since the original EPD^®system was launched in Sweden in 1998, it has attracted interest from a number of different countries and has accordingly been gradually transformed into an international system. After a recent revision of the international EPD^®system, it complies with most market's requests for a globally-accepted communication system.It  also meets most customer needs for quality assurance and provides comparable information between products. The system complies with international standards for life cycle assessments and environmental declarations (ISO 14040, 14044 and 14025).

Further information about the international EPD^®system  will be found on the international EPD website www.environdec.com