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Understand Your Impacts Improve Your Footprint
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service
Applicable Industries
- Cities & Municipalities
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Energy Management System
- Public Warning & Emergency Response
Services
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
ANTER, a non-profit organization, aimed to generate awareness of personal environmental responsibility through the 'Voluntary Chart of the Sustainable Citizen' initiative. They wanted to create a user-friendly platform that enables families to understand their Environmental Footprint and the consequences of daily habits and choices. The challenge was to differentiate from available Environmental Footprint Calculators, assuring a scientific basis. They also needed to present the initiative and the tool within a short timeframe.
About The Customer
ANTER (Associazione Nazionale Tutela Energie RinnovabiliNational Renewable Energy Protection Association), is a non-profit association with the mission of spreading the culture of sustainability and promoting knowledge and development of renewable energy. Today the association has over 290,000 members throughout Italy. ANTER carries out its mission by protecting and promoting the conditions of development of the green economy, involving citizens in this change through information and awareness campaigns. Another key area of ANTER’s activities is the eco-sustainable education of young generations through events and projects organized in schools throughout Italy.
The Solution
Sphera supported the development of the online questionnaire that serves as a data collection template. They developed the LCA calculation model, using GaBi Software and Databases. They also developed an Environmental Footprint Calculator with the help of GaBi Envision. The Calculator is a user-friendly and simple tool that ANTER can use autonomously.
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