Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Life-cycle assessment to guide solutions for the triple planetary crisis

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GX23-07984X" target="_blank" >GX23-07984X: Cesty k environmentální udržitelnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nature Reviews Earth &amp; Environment

ISSN

2662-138X

e-ISSN

2662-138X

Svazek periodika

4

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

7

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

471-486

Kód UT WoS článku

001025875400012

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85164338611