A new method for analyzing sustainability performance of global supply chains and its application to material resources

Cabernard, Livia; Pfister, Stephan; Hellweg, Stefanie

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.434

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“…Nevertheless, such assessment do not consider the whole supply chain of these specific sectors. Methods recently developed to consider the supply chains of economic activities (for example to consider the electrical production needed for the "Aluminum production" activity), as proposed for example by Cabernard, Pfister and Hellweg (2019) and (Dente et al, 2019) appear particularly promising in view of further refining the assessment made in this study.…”

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No mining activities, no environmental impacts? Assessing the carbon footprint of metal requirements induced by the consumption of a country with almost no mines

Lai

Beylot

Boitier

et al. 2020

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

No mining activities, no environmental impacts? Assessing the carbon footprint of metal requirements induced by the consumption of a country with almost no mines

Lai

Beylot

Boitier

et al. 2020

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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“…Apportioning the global (or country) budget using a consumption-perspective (Beylot et al 2019;Cabernard, Pfister, & Hellweg 2019) brings the issue of appropriate needs into focus (e.g. mobility, housing/shelter, nutrition; Creutzig et al 2018).…”

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Carbon budgets for buildings: harmonising temporal, spatial and sectoral dimensions

Habert¹,

Röck²,

Steininger³

et al. 2020

Buildings and Cities

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Target values for creating carbon budgets for buildings are important for developing climateneutral building stocks. A lack of clarity currently exists for defining carbon budgets for buildings and what constitutes a unit of assessment-particularly the distinction between production-and consumption-based accounting. These different perspectives on the system and the function that is assessed hinder a clear and commonly agreed definition of 'carbon budgets' for building construction and operation. This paper explores the processes for establishing a carbon budget for residential and non-residential buildings. A detailed review of current approaches to budget allocation is presented. The temporal and spatial scales of evaluation are considered as well as the distribution rules for sharing the budget between parties or activities. This analysis highlights the crucial need to define the temporal scale, the roles of buildings as physical artefacts and their economic activities. A framework is proposed to accommodate these different perspectives and spatio-temporal scales towards harmonised and comparable cross-sectoral budget definitions. Policy relevance The potential to develop, implement and monitor greenhouse gas-related policies and strategies for buildings will depend on the provision of clear targets. Based on global limits, a carbon budget can establish system boundaries and scalable targets. An operational framework is presented that clarifies greenhouse gas targets for buildings in the different parts of the world that is adaptable to the context and circumstances of a particular place. A carbon budget can enable national regulators to set feasible and legally binding requirements. This will assist the many different stakeholders responsible for decisions on buildings to coordinate and incorporate their specific responsibility at one specific level or scale of activity to ensure overall compliance. Therefore, determining a task specific carbon budget requires an appropriate management of the global carbon budget to ensure that specific budgets overlap, but that the sum of them is equal to the available global budget without double-counting.

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“…Impacts associated with consumption in households are contained in the final demand category. We use the approach from Cabernard et al (2019) to calculate the cumulative impacts for nine resource segments without double counting the impacts already included in the supply chain of another segment (e.g., metals necessary to produce plastics). A detailed description of the calculation, the impact characterization methods used and the uncertainty modelling can be found in the SM.…”

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“…We use production data from USGS (2016) and for cast iron from Ashby (2012), as this material is not reported in the first source. In order to calculate the SoP as the final output of resource segments to the rest of the economy without double counting the production that is necessary to produce other materials, the production data need to be corrected to production output with the oversize factor v =ṁ overall productioṅ m production output (Cabernard et al, 2019;Dente et al, 2018;see Table 2 and SM Section 3.4).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Ecological resource availability: a method to estimate resource budgets for a sustainable economy

2020

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Non-technical summary Resources are the basis of our economy and their provision causes major shares of the global environmental burdens, many of which are beyond safe limits today. In order to be sustainable, our economy needs to be able to operate within those boundaries. As resources are the physical ‘currency’ of our economy, we present a method that allows translating Earth system boundaries into resource budgets. This ecological resource availability determines the global annual production of a resource that can be considered absolutely sustainable. The budgets can be managed like financial budgets, bringing absolute environmental limits one step closer to decision-makers.

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A new method for analyzing sustainability performance of global supply chains and its application to material resources

Cited by 85 publications

References 32 publications

No mining activities, no environmental impacts? Assessing the carbon footprint of metal requirements induced by the consumption of a country with almost no mines

No mining activities, no environmental impacts? Assessing the carbon footprint of metal requirements induced by the consumption of a country with almost no mines

Carbon budgets for buildings: harmonising temporal, spatial and sectoral dimensions

Ecological resource availability: a method to estimate resource budgets for a sustainable economy

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