Upcoming GreenBlue Forest Products Meetings
The next Forest Products Working Group Meeting for founding members has been scheduled for December 6 and will be taking place in Boston. Members that are attending the meeting should expect to receive additional meeting materials closer to the meeting date.
In addition, this year’s second Corporate Forum on Paper and the Environment will be taking place on December 6 in New York City. An agenda and detailed meeting information will be sent to participants in two weeks, which will include information on the guest speakers and topics that will be covered at the meeting.
Please contact us with any inquiries related to these meetings or if you’d like more information about either the Forest Products Working Group or the Corporate Forum on Paper and the Environment.
EPAT: Normalization Analysis
GreenBlue recently completed a quality assurance test for the Environmental Paper Assessment Tool (EPAT). The goal of the quality assurance exercise was to analyze the consistency of EPAT’s normalization of industry data to similar data sources in the pulp and paper industry. Today, access to complete data in the pulp and paper sector is not publicly available at the same level of detail that is available in EPAT to its users. As such, GreenBlue and EPAT users felt it was important to compare EPAT industry average data with other sources as a quality assurance measure. The two industry associations that assisted GreenBlue in providing feedback were the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement and the Forest Products Association of Canada.
The quality assurance results varied depending on the mill type performance indicator, but overall, EPAT data is aligned with other industry data sources. GreenBlue also considered the sample size of data collection and found that EPAT data was equivalent to other industry sources in most cases.
The availability of complete and perfect industry information is fragmented, but despite the data challenges this exercise confirmed GreenBlue’s confidence that the industry average data in EPAT is a qualified representation of the North American industry. Please contact Theron Jourdan with any specific questions about EPAT or our recent quality assurance testing.
