Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F23%3A10474239" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/23:10474239 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7-9q3do5HO" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7-9q3do5HO</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00449-2" target="_blank" >10.1038/s43017-023-00449-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis
Original language description
Decarbonization, circular economy, sustainable finance and sustainable consumption are four main environmental mitigation strategies to solve the triple planetary crisis. This Review explores the role of life-cycle assessment in evaluating and shaping environmental mitigation strategies. Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution - the triple planetary crisis - increasingly threaten the Earth system, necessitating tools such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) that can evaluate the effectiveness of different prevention and mitigation strategies. LCA systematically quantifies the environmental impacts over the whole life cycle of products, processes or policy scenarios. LCA is frequently applied to uncover environmental hotspots and prioritize actions and is increasingly used to assess the environmental impacts of strategy implementation scenarios. In this Review, we discuss the role of LCA in evaluating and shaping strategies on the decarbonization of energy systems, circular economy, sustainable consumption and sustainable finance. We explore how emerging LCA-based approaches make use of the planetary boundaries framework and other environmental assessment tools to support decisions. Cross-comparisons between LCA applications for various mitigation strategies reveal differences in maturity level, methodological choices and the way that environmental assessment tools have been combined with LCA. Economy-wide LCAs on the decarbonization of energy systems and sustainable consumption are already common, whereas economy-wide applications to circular economy and prospective LCAs for sustainable finance are still in their infancy. Future research should develop systematic classification of decision-support problems, harmonized data and comprehensive guidance to improve robustness and credibility of prospective economy-wide LCA.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX23-07984X" target="_blank" >GX23-07984X: PATHWAYS TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
ISSN
2662-138X
e-ISSN
2662-138X
Volume of the periodical
4
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
471-486
UT code for WoS article
001025875400012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85164338611