Board/Sponsors/Statutes
Organization
board of directors:
- chair Joost Vogtländer, originator of the dataset
- secretary Arno Scheepens, who has written a doctorate thesis on the Ecocosts Value Ratio
- treasurer Jan-Henk Welink, coordinator
advisory board:
- delegates of sponsors
sponsors:
- Lefebvre Sarrut (SDU), a publishing leader in legal and tax knowledge
- Impact Forecast, a world wide organization in a training and coaching of SMEs, sponsored by the UNESCO
- Delft University of Technology
close cooperation with:
- Pickler, instant footprint calculations for packaging
- VDI Zentrum Ressourceneffizienz
- EY Climate change and sustainability services
- Sirris, a non-profit scientific organization for innovation in Belgium
- University of Utrecht, Copernicus institute
Statutes
The Foundation statutes are in the Dutch language, and can be found here.
The Aim of the foundation, as described in Article 2 of the Statutes is:
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- The purpose of the foundation is to scientifically stimulate Sustainable Production and Consumption, by:
(a) establishing, maintaining, expanding, and promoting quantitative data through calculation systems (“metrics”) to determine the social costs (“external costs”) of products and services;
(b) making this information publicly available.The foundation also aims to perform all further actions, which related to the aforementioned purpose in the broadest sense or could be conducive to this.
- The foundation tries to achieve its goal, among other things, by updating of the Idemat files and the eco-costs system by:
(1) keeping track of scientific literature and processing it;
(2) processing data from Sponsors’ research;
(3) publishing the data on a website;
The policy is that current expenses are supported by sponsor money.
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