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International Background UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
10-Years Accomplishment and Next steps
Sonia Valdivia
Programme Officer, UNEP
UNEP
Communications and
Public Information DCPI
Global Environment Fa-
cility Coordination DGEF
Environmental
Conventions DELC
Regional
Cooperation DRC
Technology, Industry
and Economics DTIE
Environmental Policy
Implementation DEPI
Early Warning and
Assessment DEWA
Policy Development
and Law DPDL
Headquarters
Kenya, Nairobi
Vision: A world where life cycle approaches are mainstreamed
Mission: Enable the global use of credible life cycle knowledge for more sustainable societies.
It is a public-private partnership…
2002
Building the SCIENCE
Supporting the DEMAND
Building the CAPACITY
Objective 1: Enhance the global
consensus and relevance of existing
and emerging life cycle methodologies and data management
Objective 2: Expand capability
worldwide to apply and to improve life cycle approaches; making them operational for
organisations
Objective 3: Communicate current life cycle knowledge
and be the global voice of the Life Cycle community to influence
and partner with stakeholders
Business, Academic, and Governments working
together to
bring science-based life cycle approaches into
practice worldwide
Over 2000 individuals collaborating globally
SETAC brings the science
UNEP brings access to governments and outreach
One stop shop for life cycle approaches
ISO Conform
International Life Cycle Partnership To mainstream life cycle thinking worldwide
UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
Total 51 countries of which 16 in developing countries
LCA Networks www.lifecycleinitiative.org
PMO
ILCB Board
Sponsors
Flagship
Project Teams
Decision makers
Consumers
Increased
knowledge &
uptake
2,200
Source: UNEP 800
300
More than
10,000
Source: LCA
Providers
tools
2002 2005 2013
Email list (2000+)
Regional Networks
National Networks
International Networks and others
www.lifecycleinitiative.org
Gold Value Chain
Use
Production
Au
Extraction
Au
Extraction
17% from artisanal & small scale mining which uses mercury
83% from medium
& big size scale mining
Using cyanide and others
Hg
emission
(mercury/gold: ratio of use 2/1; ratio of emission 1/1)
World production in 2005: 2,470
tonnes
Mercury ingested and released to
the environment: 420 tonnes
India only produces 0.16% of total
gold, but consumes 60-70%
Sources: world production: http://www.usgs.gov/
As an average, each 6 gramms of gold
purchased, originates 1 gram of Hg in released in
the environment
Holistic
Approach
-
Life Cycle
Approach
LCA and the 3 pillars of the sustainability
$
…without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own
needs.”
Sustainable development “meets
the needs of the present …
UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
Sonia Valdivia, Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya
Environmental Life Cycle Assessment
Social Life Cycle Assessment
Workers
Consumers
Local community
Society
Value chain
It helps moving towards strategic thinking
Integrate with EMS?
Strategy
Management Systems
Programmes
Decision
Support tools
Data and
Information
Adapted from
Jim Fava et al.
Phase 1: Creating Community
• Launch of LCI
2002
• Kick-off of Working Groups
2003 • Why Take a
Life Cycle Approach
2004
• 1st LA and Africa LCA Conferences
2005 • 1st LCA
Award
2006
• LCM : A Business Guide
2007
Life Cycle Impact Assessment – A framework
USETox
• 2 LCA Award
• Building and Energy Sector
2008
• Guidelines for Social LCA
• LCM
2009 • 3 LCA Award
• USETox
2010-11
• Global Guidance for Databases
• Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
2012
Phase 2: Participating in the Community
http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&type=1006&menu=153&nr=491
Aim: Through an international consensus process to propose a framework with environmental mid-point and end-point impact category indicators for decision making
Flagship 1: ‘LCIA Indicators’
Task 1 - Scoping and Impact Category Selection
•create a consensus list of environmental impact category indicators
• embed in a consistent methodological framework
Task 2 -Working Groups
• Per environmental impact indicator
• Per oveprocess, e.g. normalizationrarching
Task 2 - Major (Pellston-type) Workshops •systematic analysis and comparison of available methods - selection of the most appropriate mid-point and end-point indicators - data sources used, model parameters, temporal and geographical scope in the models (both from inventory to midpoint and from midpoint to endpoint)
Task 3 - Publication
Development and
Dissemination
Start with work done by
the European Commission,
The Sustainability
Consortium, as well as the
Swiss and Japanese
governments
Olivier Jolliet
Rolf Frischknecht
Tentative list of selected impact categories and their relationship/relevance to endpoints
(high***,intermediate**,lower* relevance. In red:endpoints to be represented in priority)
Priority Impact category
Human health
Biodiversity Resources / ecosystem services
cross-cutting
1 Global warming *** *** *
1 Respiratory inorganics (incl. PM indoors)
***
*
1 Land use (Focus on land occupation impacts on biodiversity)
*
***
***
1 Water use (Starting with midpoint proxy)
***
***
***
2 Human toxicity (incl. indoor)
**
2 Acidification, eutrophication and ecotoxicity
** starting with
terrestrial acid. and freshwater eutr.
*
2 Energy resources **
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orm
alization
& w
eightin
g
LCA Data Status in 2012
Commercial databases with local datasets for relevant products and unit processes are available (6)
Commercial and public databases with local datasets for relevant products and unit processes are available (5)
Few datasets for products (e.g. on energy) or impact categories (e.g. climate change) from research organizations are available (13)
Only limited to very few unit processes (e.g. energy, transportation) or impact category (e.g. climate change) (2)
Neither public nor commercial data is available (13)
Public databases with local datasets for several products and unit processes are available (1)
Flagship 2: ‘Dissemination and networking
on Global Principles for LCA Databases’ Aims:
- Training in countries and regions
- Facilitation of consistent and accessible informational
resources on databases and contained datasets
- Establishing and supporting regional and global
networks of database developers and managers Guido Sonnemann
Bruce Vigon
Scope 3d of A =
Scope 1&2 tier 1 +
Scope 1&2 tier 2 +
Scope 1&2 tier 3 +
….
or
∑ Scope 3 all tier 1
Only in theory!
No organisation LCA without product LCAs
Aim: To support the ISO work on showing the practical way to do an LCA for organizations
Flagship 3: ‘LCA in Organizations’
Atsushi Inaba
Matthias Finkbeiner
LCM , India Aug, 2012
3rd LCM China Conf,
Nov, 2012
3rd LCM Brazil
Sept 2012
Global guidance
Bangkok, June 2012
LCM France, Lille, Nov 2012
LCA/LCM Seminar Peru,
Aug 2012
Turkey, June 2013
30 countries with Life Cycle networks
WF, LCA Databases, Mendoza,
Argentina, March, 2013
LCA Databases Seminar,
2013 Mexico
ISO-UNEP/SETAC WF
Training, Bostwana, June
2013
LCM , India Sept, 2013
WF, CF France, Paris, Nov 2012
2012
2013
LCA Training, Israel,
June, 2013
WFTraining, Bangkok,
July, 2013
Cassia Ugaya, Brazil
Sonia Valdivia, UNEP
Sanjeevan Bajaj,
India
Aim: To provide the foundation for mainstreaming life cycle thinking
worldwide
‘Flagship 4: Global
Capacity Building’
WF training , India Sept,
2013
WF / LCM training ,
Latino America
Lima, Oct, 2013
ISO-UNEP/SETAC
Training on WF
Panama, 2014
2014
Flagship 5: ‘Product sustainability information
meta guidance’ Objectives:
• Identify the need and demand for filling gaps with
regards to the understanding and interpretation of
e.g. ISO standards on product sustainability aspects
• Develop Global Guiding Principles for Developing
and Applying Product Sustainability Information which
could help to provide alignment and harmonization of
generic quantification standards and product-level
guidance
Jim Fava
Philip Strothmann
Thank you!
Members of the Life Cycle
Initiative
www.lifecycleinitiative.org
Increased
uptake
‘Communication’
PMO
ILCB Board
Sponsors
Flagship
Project Teams
Training (EF, WF, CF)
Capacity Building Events
Decision makers
Consumers
Increased
involvement
Objective: Communicate current life cycle knowledge and be the global voice of the Life Cycle community to influence and partner with stakeholders
As of today: Google’ entries SCP 9.8 Mio LCA 22 Mio Climate Change 745
Increased
knowledge &
uptake
2,200
Source: UNEP 800
300
More than
10,000
Source: LCA
Providers
tools
2002 2005 2013
Email list (2000+)
Ana Quiros