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  • Ecospeed develops software for CO2 balancing of hospitals

    Ecospeed develops software for CO2 balancing of hospitals

    Ecospeed AG will soon begin the so-called roll-out of its software for CO2 balancing of hospitals. According to a media release, the development work is almost complete. “Our goal is to provide hospitals and their operating companies with a very easy-to-use software for the overall balancing of greenhouse gas emissions,” Ecospeed CEO Christoph Hartmann is quoted as saying. “We are building an industry-specific platform for this task.”

    As Hartmann further explains, each hospital will be able to use the software “to determine its individual ‘Corporate Carbon Footprint’. This will enable hospitals to identify fields of action and plan paths for gradual decarbonisation.” It can also be used to document successes. In addition, the hospitals would comply with the future CSR reporting obligation, with which companies in the EU must disclose from 1 January 2024 how and to what extent they fulfil their responsibility with regard to their impact on society and the environment.

    The first pilot customer is a hospital association with 17 clinics in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Initial results are already available. “In terms of direct emissions, there are big differences that can be attributed to the condition of the building envelope and the age and condition of the heating systems,” says Hartmann. “Scope 3 emissions, however, are significantly higher, caused in particular by purchased materials and transport. The collected and processed data give the clinics clear indications of where there is potential for improvement.”

  • Ecospeed Scout enables comprehensive environmental assessment

    Ecospeed Scout enables comprehensive environmental assessment

    The company Ecospeed , founded in 2002, develops web-based software for the accounting of environmental indicators for authorities, companies and people, informs the Zurich company in its online portrait . Ecospeed has launched software that can be used to measure the environmental impact of products, processes and locations. The Ecospeed Scout is based on the standard for comprehensive environmental assessment published in May 2021, eco-scout .

    The history of the life cycle assessment begins as early as 1978, according to a corresponding time table . At that time, the owner of Frisco-Findus AG, which is now part of Nestlé, submitted an environmental assessment for his company entitled "The ecological accounting". In the following years, Migros, the Federal Office for the Environment and the German Volkswagen group took up the method and refined it. The now valid eco-scout standard was then created from 2020 by a German-Swiss working group with the support of large companies, the Federal Office for the Environment, the German Federal Environment Ministry and the German Federal Environment Agency. In 2021, "the first software for environmental assessments based on the eco-scout standard from Ecospeed AG / Zurich" will be launched, according to the online journey through time.

    Over 18,000 entries on materials, processes, modes of transport, energy sources, infrastructure systems and types of waste from the life cycle assessment database of the Swiss ecoinvent center can be used to create the environmental assessment. The software creates an inventory analysis in which the national and EU-wide environmental goals and specifications are also taken into account. Based on the inventory balance, the environmental impact is then calculated in so-called environmental impact points (UBP).