Shaping and channeling the transformation of the global energy system require an understanding of the life cycle environmental impacts of available technology options. With photovoltaic electricity generation expected to be the largest, least cost, and most relevant source of energy globally by mid‐century, the environmental and resource implications of this technology should be made accessible to a variety of societal, political, and scientific stakeholders. The Product Environmental Footprint Guide provides a methodology for assessing the environmental impacts of PV technologies based on life cycle assessment. The establishment of an inclusive multi‐stakeholder process with multiple checkpoints, ensuring scientific soundness, societal and political acceptance and methodological quality, is portrayed in this paper and can serve as a model for driving a single market for green products in the EU.

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光伏模块的产品环境足迹（PEF）-从环境足迹试点阶段学到的经验教训，该过程已进入欧盟绿色产品单一市场的道路

塑造和引导全球能源系统的转型需要了解可用技术选择对生命周期的环境影响。到本世纪中叶，光伏发电有望成为全球最大，成本最低，最相关的能源，因此，各种社会，政治和科学利益相关者都应可以使用该技术对环境和资源的影响。《产品环境足迹指南》提供了一种基于生命周期评估来评估光伏技术对环境的影响的方法。建立具有多个检查点的包容性多利益相关方流程，以确保科学上的健全性，社会和政治上的接受以及方法论的质量，