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Best Practices on Life Cycle Assessment

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singhthinkstep Sustainability Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

GreenCo Hyderabad 2016

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Key Trends in LCALCA Best PracticesIndian LCA Software and Database

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Vision: Help organizations worldwide to succeed sustainably

Mission: Long-term sustainability success with unrivalled data, software technology, and consulting services.

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Questions That CEO Are Keeping Up At Night

What is the impact of sustainability to our product (impact on growth and profitability)?

How does our portfolio contribute to the purpose of sustained value creation?

Which of our products are likely to be affected by regulations and/or a negative market perception in the future?

How does my company need to shape its portfolio in order to meet future demands and to keep/expand its leading market positions?

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…Functions Lens for Life Cycle Assessment

R&DHow can our solution meet thesustainability requirements?

SalesHow can my customer benefit fromour solution?

Product SafetyWhat are the product safety requirements along thevalue chain from raw materials to end consumer?

ProductionAre our processes more efficient than ourmarket standards?

MarketingIs our solution meeting the customer´sExpectations and does it differentiate in the market?

SustainabilityWhat are the sustainability expectations in our markets?

RegulatoryWhich are the actual and foreseeableregulations in the respective markets?

Succeed Sustainably

Trends we see in 2016

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Trends we see in 2016

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Raw Materials

Final Disposal

Life Cycle Thinking…

Recycling

MaterialsManufacture

ProductsManufacture

Transportation & Manufacture

Use

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Trends- 2016Life Cycle Assessment

Customer Demand

Product Carbon Footprint

Hot spot Identification and Weak point Analysis

Principle 2 of BRR

DJSI Emerging Markets

GRI G4 Materiality Assessment

CDP Scope 3 Reporting

Green Buildings and LEED.v4

Labels: EPD and HPD

ISO 14001- 2015

Natural Capital Accounting

Policy Decisions

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Resource and Energy Efficiency

Product Stewardship

Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Design for Environment and Material Choice

Green Procurement

Product Compliance and Toxicity Risks

Packaging Innovation

Chemical Footprint

Circular Economy and Service Life Extension

Social Life Cycle Assessment

LCA Practitioners in India

Succeed Sustainably

New ways to manage

Data driven decision making using LCA

Actuals and targets

Less Certain/Long TermCertain/Short Term

Innovate

Mitigate

Business case for LCALCA execution

Screen Scope Scale

Design for Environment

End-to-end view of corporate and product sustainability

Cross department collaboration

Supply chain

Internal Customers Stakeholders

Succeed Sustainably

12Source: https://www.basf.com/en/company/sustainability/management-and-instruments/sustainable-solution-steering.html

Sustainability#Master- Henkel

13Source: http://www.lca-sustainable-product-design-europe.com/media/downloads/inline/roland-schroeder-henkel.1292499960.pdf

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Automotive Sector: Material Replacement

Steel replacement by Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS)

Source: World Steel: A case for Life Cycle AssessmentLight Duty Truck Vehicle, May 2014

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Base Case Aluminium AHSS

Global Warming Potential (t CO2 eq)

4.25% GHG reduction

Ford Taurus Bolster GMC Envoy Running Board

FRV (Without Adaptation): 0.16 l/100km/100kg

FRV (With Adaptation): 0.38 l/100km/100kg

Is Automotive Light Weighting with Plastics A No-Brainer?Zahller et. al., LCA XII Conference, Tacoma, WA September 25, 2012

Automotive Sector: Light Weighting

Daimler: Life Cycle Comparisons

Interface: Full Product Transparency

Everybody is talking about embedding sustainability; but truly

embedding is in your product

Source: Ramon Arratia, Interface - The case for full product transparency, 2013

Barilla Foods- LCA Initiatives

Source: barilla Sustainability Report

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LCA Database- What the Experts say?

“In the past, we could not benchmark our products’ performance with international products, due to the lack of regional Indian data. The GaBiDatabase for India delivers reliable data that cements the credibility of our LCA results. We can remove the scepticism about LCA results and take quicker action on the hot spots shown by the LCA.”Ashwini Deodeshmukh, AGM, Green Initiative Cell at Godrej Interio

Over the years, ITC has carried out several LCA studies of its products whichhave helped identify opportunities for resource conservation and alsointroduce environmental considerations into the product / service designstage. The major challenge in carrying out LCA studies is the absence of Indiaspecific databases. Such databases will result in more meaningfulassessments which in turn, will better inform, decisions at the organizationallevel and policies at the regulatory level”

Sanjib Bezbaroa, EVP & Head, Corporate EHS, ITC Limited

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Indian GaBi LCA Database

• First Indian specific LCI data available in the market.

• Over 150 India specific datasets. • Full system level data for:

• Energy grid mix• Transportation• Metal and Mining• Plastics• Construction • Chemicals• End of Life

• Base approach on “industry practices” rather than on “academic method”

• Preserve the database quality by maintenance, documentation and reviews

• Grow the content according to emerging standards and user demand

Indian Recipe for national acceptance, industry support and international fit

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Indian GaBi LCA Database

Thank you For Your Kind Attention

Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh,Managing Director,

thinkstep Sustainability Solutions Pvt Limited, a subsidiary of thinkstep AG GermanyAndheri Kurla Road, Andheri East, Mumbai, India 400059Phone +91 22 42667693Website: www.thinkstep.com