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Global Impact Score Video Demonstration

Hello and welcome to the video presentation of the Global Impact Score

I'm Milla Castleman, an environmental engineering consultant with Glen Pack

The Global Impact Score application enables companies, particularly in the

fashion sectors, to measure the environmental footprint of their products in

16 different environmental indicators, including carbon emissions, but going

The application is based on the PEPF product environmental footprint method, a

Union initiative aimed at standardizing calculations for assessing the

PEPF is part of the European Green Claims Directive, which fights greenwashing,

Global Impact Score enables you to discover the hotspots of your products, and

This application is offered by Glen Pack as a free version of the broader Glen

In the full version, you can go much further in the analysis and choice of

well as modeling products outside of the fashion space.

Global Impact Score

The first step is to create your account.

This will enable you to find within your workspace all the products that have

Create the name of your workspace, which could be the name of your company, for

and enter your email address and a password that will allow you to log in again

The application is divided into four main sections.

The header section in which you'll find a link

enabling you to return to all the products

that have been modeled in your workspace.

A product header section in which you can change the name

You have the environmental score of your product,

And then on the left here, you can see the form

in which you'll input all of the required activity data

to evaluate the environmental impact of your product.

Let's take a look at the activity data collection form, which allows you to

information. First of all, production, logistics, and distribution data will be

already pre-configured in the platform if you don't have access to this type of

So this form is divided into sections that grew together in general information

various stages of the product's lifecycle. The data requested are those

PEFCR, the Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules, the Parolin Footwear

Glenn Beck has modeled some product scenarios to simplify product evaluation.

the form, first you'll need to fill in the general information, i.e. product

all PEFCR product categories, product weight, proportion of unsold goods. What

is that the impacts are modified in real time, according to the fields that we

see that change there. We can verify that durability also has a significant

Information on repairability can be included. Then we come to product

section where we have two options for entering manufacturing processes, either

materials or for the overall product. Then we can specify all materials, so you

in this drop-down list. You'll also have a lot of additional information in the

for your reference. You can specify the thread count of the yarn in the origin,

you to either regionalize the material or define the product's distribution

to add up to 10 different materials to have the most precise product possible.

on trims too, so all the components you add to your product can be modeled here

just by adding a point, for example, if you have buttons or zippers. Then for

you can specify the shaping, both through the different countries and the

transforming processes, product coloring. You can see these different dyeing

batch dyeing, continuous, dope dyeing, etc. In any finishing processes you may

for example, a product that is water repellent or stain repellent, you can

Then define for the assembly process, the country and the associated cutting

by modifying very simply. You can see that the impact of the product has

The packaging is not obligatory because it's not obligatory data in the PECR.

already defined through predefined schemes that are specified here. You have

course of redefining them yourself if you have the information to do so. If you

in the same way for air-free, you can define your air-free scenario. The

required because this one is in the same way to find the PECR. And end of life,

or not end of life is dependent on your sales schemes. So here we can put 50%

North America, 50% Europe, whatever is specific to your product. And you can

doing all of this, the results change in real time according to the data that

Now that we've defined the activity data, we can analyze the product's impact.

So we see this score displayed live here, and there are several ways of

So for example, we can look only at one environmental indicator instead of the

We can set this to show only climate change or carbon emissions.

We can look at the impact breakdown by a life cycle stage.

So here you can see raw materials, packaging, manufacturing, distribution, etc.

We can also toggle between looking at functional units, so that's impact per

And then by clicking on the Analyze Result button, you can also visualize the

with these different pie charts, which enable you to analyze the breakdown by

and the breakdown by life cycle stage, note that these graphics are dynamic, so

again click into carbon emissions and see the corresponding impact breakdown by

Now we'll look at how to create a new product.

Click on the "Glimpact" icon in the top left hand corner.

And you'll find yourself in your workspace with all the products you've

By clicking on "New Project," you can select the category, global impact score.

You can either start from an empty form in which you'll have to enter all

or you can start from a template product such as a Coke, sweater, jeans, t-

By clicking on it, you'll have a product that is pre-evaluated.

And you'll be able to compare your simulation as you modify the activity data,

with the associated representative product that you chose.