United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business Solutions in Support of Digital Product Passports

This paper describes why ECE-UN/CEFACT standards and tools are ideally suited to support DPP development, explains which current and forthcoming ECE-UN/CEFACT standards and tools can assist in the development of DPPs, notably the traceability and transparency standards; and provides specific recommendations on how ECE-UN/CEFACT standards and tools could be further developed to support the adoption of DPPs. This paper supports the outcomes of the seventieth Commission session on Digital and Green Transformations for Sustainable Development in the Region of the Economic Commission for Europe (E/ECE/1504) and is part of the ECE Sustainability Pledge initiative for sustainable value chains in critical sectors for the circular economy.