Sustainability
 Sustainability
is now a key issue in the strategic development of many corporations and
governments. A life cycle perspective is needed to understand the
full picture.
Assessing social and economic
impacts
Compared to environmental aspects, social impacts are not always easy to quantify and to express in a set of indicators. Another problem is
interpretation.
For an environmental indicator, such as climate change,
it is clear that we can assume the less is better approach. Two kg of CO2
is twice as bad as one kg. But can we apply this for issues as child
labour? Are two sweatshops twice as bad as one, or would you rather think
any sweatshop is unacceptable?
PRé has wide experience in developing approaches that can handle
such methodological issues. We believe the combination of
Life Cycle Assessment
and intelligent handling of social and economic aspects is an
efficient way forward to support the development of your sustainable
products.
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Reporting
sustainability
Over half the Fortune
500 companies publish sustainability reports, mostly using
GRI
guidelines. The boundary of most reports is now expanding from the
corporate borders to include the entire life cycle, and the new G3
reporting standards emphasise this.
Data collection within
your corporation is not easy, but getting data from suppliers is
really difficult. LCA databases can be an excellent data source to
understand the issues within your entire supply chain.
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