COWI has played a key role in providing national and international environmental authorities and stakeholders with quality analyses of substance flows and impacts in the biosphere and on economy - always based on a life-cycle approach:
- Substance flow assessment (SFA, substance flow analyses: Consumption, releases, exposure assessment)
- Substitution analyses (impact assessment: applications, technical issues, financial assessment, environmental risk assessment)
- Emission inventories
- Consumption assessments
- Hazardous waste production forecasts
- Development of abatement strategies
- Policy development (national and international)
- Plans, guidance and capacity building for implementation of conventions/international agreements
- Risk communication and negotiation facilitation on hazardous chemicals management
- Chemicals management for industries (REACH: pre-registration and other implementation at downstream users)
- Hazardous waste management
Our experience and services
We have specific experience with: heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium, nickel etc.), persistent organic pollutants (POPs: PCB, dioxins and furans, chlorinated pesticides), brominated flame retardants, phthalates, chlorinated solvents, siloxanes (silicones), PFOS, TCB, organic tin compounds, ODS (ozone depleting substances), industrial greenhouse gases, other PBTs (persistent and bioaccumulative toxics) and vPvBs (very persistent very bioaccumulative substances).
Read selected references and service descriptions in the information boxes to the right.
These services can be integrated with a wide array of other COWI services, including water resources management, municipal waste management, legal framework design, environmental impact assessment, urban development services and environmental due diligence.
