Bombardier puts C Series up for environmental scrutiny

Bombardier has become the first company in the aerospace industry to disclose the life-cycle environmental impact of one of its products, putting its C Series airliner up for scrutiny in a move it believes will help it sell more planes. The aircraft maker said Monday that it published the sector’s first so-called environmental product declaration, an independently verified and registered document that outlines specific information about the environmental impact of a product over its life span. The declaration doesn’t mean a product is necessarily greener than others. It is simply a declaration of its environmental impact that can be compared to other products using standardised measurements. EPD rules are overseen and administered by a secretariat located in Sweden. <br/>