The new method will provide a powerful empirical basis to address key sustainability questions related to our material consumption. This will allow analysing the distant links between production and consumption, in order to better understand the global drivers of local impacts. Work stream 3, building on the results from stream 1 and 2, performs assessments applying a consumption, or footprint, perspective.įINEPRINT will deliver a highly detailed global assessment method to compare various impacts related to raw material extraction across different supply chains. Stream 2 turns to the issue of international trade of raw materials and manufactured products. Stream 1 focuses on the extraction of raw materials and related impacts from a territorial perspective. The project will be implemented through three work streams, which follow the logic of footprint calculations. The assessment will be carried out for at least 60 raw materials on a global scale, covering biomass from agriculture, fossil fuels, metal ores and industrial minerals.

FINEPRINT will develop a spatially explicit footprint model, which will allow tracing products consumed in European countries back to the precise geographical location where specific environmental and social impacts related to raw material extraction take place. The FINEPRINT project aims at overcoming this limitations of current footprint models by moving the analysis from the national to a detailed spatial level.

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