Find out about the follow-on project:
PERFORM - Sustainability Performance Benchmarking

About MEPI

This Web site presents the main results of the Measuring Environmental Performance of Industry (MEPI) project co-ordinated by SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Sussex, UK. It was funded under the Fourth Framework Programme (Environment and Climate) of DG Research of the European Commission and was completed in July 2000.

The key objectives of this research project were to:

• develop quantitative indicators for the environmental performance of manufacturing firms
• collect environmental and financial data for a large number of European firms in the electricity, pulp and paper, fertiliser, printing, textile finishing and computer manufacture sectors
• apply the indicators so as to deepen understanding of the causes of changes in industrial environmental performance

Presented here are:

• the approach used to develop environmental performance indicators for companies;
• the data on environmental and financial performance collected for 280 European companies and 430 production sites in six industrial sectors;
• a statistical analysis of the environmental performance of companies and production sites;
• a benchmarking tool allowing companies to compare their environmental performance to the performance of other European companies that operate in the same sector; and
• a ranking of European companies according to their performance on key environmental indicators.

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