Description
Pitch for a research project that aims to answer questions from provincial and national government (the audience), as well as science. The angle is to use the LCA methodology to measure both environmental impacts ("sustainability") and circularity (to be split into critical depletion / resource management on one hand and impacts of a.o. production on the other) with one single integral tool/approach. If so desired, other impacts in the social and economical sphere can be added by extension. IF all of these apples and pears are to be "added up" to produce one single score, the weighing method needs to be addressed. Monetization is popular, but biased and impure, while political prioritization based on urgency ("distance to target") seems to be more effective. The real innovative question of this project though is how to calculate with time/timing of various impacts, given the insecurity of the future (who knows what will actually happen with a product or process and who knows what the world will look like and technology will be like), as well as the fact that events now start to have their accumulating impacts right away (e.g. carbon emissions now are certainly not the same as expected carbon emissions in 2050, and they cannot be added up as if they are). These questions together are the subject of this research, that was embraced by the audience (governments).| Period | 22 May 2023 |
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| Held at | Interprovinciaal Overleg + Ministeries, Netherlands |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- LCA
- Life Cycle Assessment
- circularity
- sustainability
- environmental impacts
- time factor
- weighting methodology