Webinar: Digital Product Information Systems for Sustainability and Circularity

The D4CE initiative, led by UNEP, is encouraging the exploration of DPIS as a promising approach for sustainable consumption and production through increased transparency along the value chain. This webinar will offer insights into the various  DPIS efforts underway across countries and regions. It will also introduce the newly published Blueprint for a Digital Product Information System Global Framework, which marks an initial step towards a shared understanding of potential content and data categories for a universally accepted DPIS framework focused on achieving sustainability and circularity goals. 

Agenda:

- Opening remarks (Jorge Laguna-Celis, Head, One Planet Network)

- Introduction of D4CE initiative, the Blueprint for a Digital Product Information System Global Framework (Archana Datta, Lifecycle Expert, UNEP)

- Battery Digital Passport in India (Chaitanya Kanuri, Associate Director, Electric Mobility, WRI)

- DPIS for Argentina's textile sector, a pilot project (Alberto Capra, Director, CRBAS - INTI)

- DPIS, a perspective from the private sector in China (Maohua Yin, Director of Product Innovation Center, Xiamen Straits Federation for Sustainable Business) 

- EU Digital Product Passport and circular economy (Thomas Ebert, Policy Analyst, European Commission) 

- Q&A 

- Blueprint presentation (Nathalie Paust and Holger Berg, Wuppertal Institute)

- ITU Standard development presentation (Reyna Úbeda, Engineer of ITU-T Study Group 5 on Environment, EMF, climate action and circular economy, ITU) 

- Q&A and closing

Date: Wednesday, 15 October 

Time: 13:00 – 14:30 (Paris time)

Language: English

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WXj988jTS0GneG-P8kFD4Q#/registration

The recording for the webinar is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3g0PqT8J58

Read the Blueprint: Blueprint for a Global Digital Product Information System (DPIS) Framework