Digital Product Passport: the ticket to achieving a climate neutral and circular European economy?
Updated on 17.06.2024
This report is a deep dive into Digital Product Passports (DPPs). It addresses what DPPs are, why they are needed, its benefits and challenges, policy evolution leading to DPPs, business perspectives on DPPs, and recommendations on implementation.
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It concludes that DPPs are a great opportunity to modernise and digitalise product information to support industry transformation towards carbon neutrality and increased circularity. The report defines the preconditions for the materialisation of this opportunity as transparency, standardisation, and data reliability.
Relevance for Circular Systemic Solutions
This report can offer cities and regions a comprehensive overview of Digital Product Passports. The extensive coverage of the report offers actors from many sectors potential solutions, while focusing specifically on case studies from construction, manufacturing and industrial sectors. This resource can especially help cities and regions in the mapping and designing phases of CSS deployment, specifically when 'analysing the metabolism of the territory and potential stakeholders', 'Building a CSS case', and Defining targets'.
CEAP2 key product value chain
built environment, CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
CEAP2 key product value chain
e.g. B2B services
digital tools facilitating CE transition
e.g. chemicals, cosmetics, bio-based industries
e.g. electrical engineering, furniture and interior, textile and fashion
e.g. healthcare
<5 000
large 500 000-200 000, medium 200 000-50 000, and small cities 50 000-5 000
large metropolitan area >1.5 million, metropolitan area 1.5 million-500 000
predominantly urban regions, intermediate and predominantly rural regions, refer to TERCET typology NUTS 3 region
e.g. commercial, residential, service, industrial
