Open Space workshop on sustainability indicators for bio-based products

This report presents an Open Space workshop aiming to identify and discuss indicators and aspects that are important in a sustainability assessment of bio-based products. After an initial individual brainstorming, the 19 workshop participants formed five small groups, each of which selected 3-5 sustainability indicators that they considered important for assessments of bio-based products. The ideas were presented for the rest of the workshop participants and posted on a wall. Once all sustainability indicators were identified, overlaps were eliminated, and we were left with ideas for 15 potentially important indicators to include in a sustainability assessment (see table below). Most of these are related to environmental impacts and resources.