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A joint organisationof UNEP & SETAC
Launch and Road-testing of theGuidance on Organizational LCA by the
UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative
Julia Martínez-Blanco, Matthias Finkbeiner, Llorenç Milà-i-Canals, Ana Quiros, Atsushi Inaba
Bordeux, France
1 September 2015
Content
• “Guidance on Organizational LCA”
• Technical framework
• Next steps: road testing
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
“Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment”
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
Acknowledgements
Producers:
Supervision, technical editing and support: Llorenç Milà i Canals (UNEP DTIE, France) • Sonia Valdivia (UNEP DTIE, France)
Lead authors: Julia Martínez Blanco (TU Berlin, Germany) • Matthias Finkbeiner (TU Berlin, Germany) • Atsushi Inaba (Kogakuin University, Japan)
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
17 co-drafters in the working group
47 feedback stakeholders who participated in the co nsultation process
11 first movers (case studies)
Consultan
cy; 25%
University
; 37%
NGO; 8%Research
center;
8%
Big
company;
7%
Industrial
sector; 3%
Internatio
nal Org.;
5%
Politic; 3% SME; 2%
Type of organisation
Women;
39%
Men; 61%
Gender
Africa;
9% Asia
Pacific;
11%
Europe;
46%
Latin
America;
19%
North
America;
14%
Global;
2%
Region
Composition co-drafters and feedback stakeholders
Content and recommended reading itineraries
Features of the Guidance document
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
Reports
Summaries about specific features of the ‘First Mover’ stories
Features of the Guidance document
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
Content
• “Guidance on Organizational LCA”
• Technical framework• Next steps: road testing
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
• A compilation and evaluation of the inputs, outputs and potential environmental impacts of the activities associated with the organization adopting a life cycle perspective (ISO/TS 14072).
• O-LCA mainly differs…
– from previous LCA techniques by its
What is O-LCA?
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object of study: the organization ;
– from other organization-oriented methodologies by its approach: the life cycle ;
– from recent value chain tools by the categories considered: multi-criteria assessment .
Goals definition
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Main elements of O-LCA scope
Scope definition
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Other common issues to be defined: allocation procedures, LCIA methods, data quality requirements, assumptions, etc.
Reporting organization
• Subject of study
• Consolidation method
• Reference period
Scope definition
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Reporting flow
• per units (e.g. number of jeans, skirts and shirts produced by a clothing manufacturer)
• per weight (e.g. kilograms of steel, iron and aluminum provided by a metal retailer)
• non-physical terms (e.g. economic revenue and number of employees)
System boundary - Which operations/activities are part of the system?
The resources use and emissions are divided into: direct and indirect.
Scope definition
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Cradle-to-gate
Cradle-to-grave
Data collection
Inventory
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There is not a “one-size-fits-all” approach to O-LCA.
Three experience-based pathways are defined with specific
Inventory
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with specific recommendations
Content
• “Guidance on Organizational LCA”
• Technical framework
• Next steps: road testing
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
Road Testing
Test the guidance document in about 10 real organizations.
Goals: proof the potentialities of the methodology + add more experiences and promote its further use + test the clarity of the document
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
Representative set of organizations: region, sector, size, and experience with environmental tools.
Terms: The organizations is the main actor in the application (providing its own resources). The secretariat provides support.
Calendar: September 2015 – Summer 2016
Provisional list of road testers
The provisional list of road testers includes:
• Sectors : Cosmetics, Agricultural machinery, Vegetable oil, Ceramic tiles, Steel, Education, Plywoods, Consultancy, Waste management...
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
• Countries : Italy, Thailand, Turkey, Russia, India, Canada, Bolivia, Peru...
• Sizes : 5 – 7,000 employees; local and international
... still being defined.
How to collaborate?
Download and use the Guidance document.
Be our voice and disseminate O-LCA.
Apply O-LCA and encourage others to do it.
Launch and road-testing of the Guidance on O-LCA
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