Decomposition analysis of annual toxicological footprint changes: Application on Japanese industrial sectors, 2001–2015

Nguyen, Hoa Thi; Aviso, Kathleen B.; Fujioka, Masayuki; Ito, Lisa; Tokai, Akihiro

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125681

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“…According to our results, the B Corp model is based on social and economic factors that reduce market centrality, especially when combined with market centrality, especially when combined with ecological and business as well as ecological and social dimensions. As a first approach to the phenomenon under study, we were able to understand that companies have become aware of the impacts associated with their products and services, which have been motivation to belong to this type of companies [103,104]. In this way, B Corps were channeled in the interviews with leaders with certified B companies dedicated to responsible tourism, verifying that B Corps generally change in their practice environments while undergoing evaluation processes and reevaluation processes to achieve certification.…”

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The Role of B Companies in Tourism towards Recovery from the Crisis COVID-19 Inculcating Social Values and Responsible Entrepreneurship in Latin America

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One of the particularities of companies with a social purpose is that, through their business model of B companies, they have incorporated into their processes the necessary mechanisms to obtain, simultaneously, the profits to ensure the existence of the organization in the market. At the same time, social value is generated, which is necessary to address the problems of the social crisis caused by COVID-19 and the environmental problems affecting the community. The current global health and economic crisis has opened up the possibility of adopting business model B and focusing more on the individual. Based on the grounded theory method, we have examined 3500 B Corporations in Latin America, of which 57 were examined in 10 countries listed in the Directory of B Corporations for Latin America. The main conclusions are that B Corporations dedicated to tourism through responsible entrepreneurship develop a more inclusive, sustainable and environmentally friendly economy for the benefit of society, go beyond the notion of CSR and move away from traditional business, as B Corporations combine social development and economic growth.

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The Role of B Companies in Tourism towards Recovery from the Crisis COVID-19 Inculcating Social Values and Responsible Entrepreneurship in Latin America

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“…The extended IO model that considers environmental burdens, has been applied for optimizing supply chains in consideration of water footprint constraints (Aviso et al 2011) in optimizing multi-regional bioethanol supply chains with fuzzy multi-objectives (Tan et al 2009); and in identifying the role of economic sectors as pollution producers (Nguyen, Aviso, Kojima, et al 2018). Besides these, the national IO analysis was also extended to link with structural decomposition analysis to uncover the main socio-economic driving factors on the increase of CO2 emission within the Vietnamese economy (Nguyen, Aviso, Le, and Tokai 2018) and on the decrease of toxic chemical releases in the Japanese economy (Nguyen et al 2021). The national IO analysis has also been extended to MRIO analysis to allow for the examination of global or international supply chains.…”

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Towards a Low Carbon ASEAN: An environmentally extended MRIO optimization model

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BackgroundEconomic growth is dependent on economic activity, which often translates to higher levels of carbon emissions. With the emergence of technologies that promote sustainable production, governments are working towards achieving their target economic growth while minimizing environmental emissions to meet their commitments to the international community. The IPCC reports that economic activities associated with electricity and heat production contributed most to GHG emissions and it led to the steady increase in global average temperatures. Currently, more than 90% of the total GHG emissions of the ASEAN region is attributable to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. These regions are also expected to be greatly affected with climate change. To analyze how ASEAN nations can achieve carbon reduction targets while aspiring for economic growth rates, and in consideration of interdependencies between nations, this study develops a multi-regional input-output model for minimizing collective and individual carbon emissions. A high-level eight-sector economy is used for analyzing different economic strategies.ResultsThis model shows that minimizing collective carbon emissions can still yield economic growth. Countries can focus on developing sectors that have growth potentials and lower carbon intensity-such as the services sector, agriculture, and food manufacturing sector. In addition, the simultaneous implementation of multiple carbon emission reduction strategies provides the largest reduction in regional carbon emissions. ConclusionsThis model provides a more holistic view of how the generation of carbon emissions are influenced by the interdependence of nations. The emissions reduction achieved by each country varied depending on the state of technology and the level of economic development in the different regions. This current model can be used to help nations identify more appropriate and achievable carbon reduction targets and to develop more customized policies to target priority sectors in a country. This model is currently limited by the assumption of fixed technical coefficients in the exchange and interdependence of different regions. Future work can investigate modelling flexible multi-regional trade where regions have the option of substituting goods and products in its import or export structure. Other strategies for reducing carbon emission intensity can also be explored, such as modelling transport mode choices, or establishing sectors for waste management. Hybrid models which integrate the multi-regional input-output linear program model with data envelopment analysis can also be developed.

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“…Earlier macroscopic studies on Europe also found zinc compounds and some other metals as the substances with largest contribution to toxicity in Europe in mid 2000s 1 , 3 . The Japanese PRTR was used for an integrated input-output analysis and structural decomposition analysis, to identify the socio-economic determinants of changes in toxicological footprint 11 . The results showed that the overall toxicity from the Japanese industrial sectors decreased by 49% from 2011 to 2015.…”

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Environmental ranking of European industrial facilities by toxicity and global warming potentials

Erhart

2023

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We present a methodology to develop the integrated toxicity and climate change risk assessment of Europe based facilities, industries and regions. There is an increasingly important need for large scale sustainability measurement solutions for company reporting with high granularity. In this paper we measure key aspects of Sustainable Development Goals in terms of human, cancer and non-cancer toxicity, ecotoxicity together with global warming impact potentials from point source pollutant releases of more than 10,000 companies and their 33,000 facilities in Europe from 2001 to 2017, by using the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. For our assessment, we deploy a scientific consensus model, USEtox for characterizing human and ecotoxicological impacts of chemicals and the global warming potential values from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We discuss water and air emissions of dozens of pollutants in urban, rural, coastal and inland areas. Companies in the electricity production sector are estimated to have the largest human toxicity impact potential (46% of total) and the largest global warming impact potential (50%), while companies in the sewerage sector have the largest ecotoxicity impact potential (50%). In the overall economy, the correlation between facilities’ global warming and toxicity impact potentials is positive, however, not very strong. Therefore, we argue that carbon footprint of industrial organizations can be only used as a climate change risk indicator, but not as an overall environmental performance indicator. We confirm impact potentials of major pollutants in previous research papers (Hg accounting for 76% of the total human toxicity and Zn accounting for 68% of total ecotoxicity), although we draw the attention to the limitations of USEtox in case of metals. From 2001 to 2017 total human toxicity dropped by 28%, although the downward trend reversed in 2016. Ecotoxicity and global warming impact potentials remained unchanged in the same period. Finally, we show that the European pollutant release monitoring data quality could be further improved, as only three quarters of the toxic releases are measured in the Member States of the European Union, and a high share of toxic pollutant releases are only estimated in some countries. Of the measured or calculated toxic releases, only one third is reported according to the most robust CEN/ISO standards and about one fifth according to the least preferred other methods, like engineering judgements.

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Decomposition analysis of annual toxicological footprint changes: Application on Japanese industrial sectors, 2001–2015

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

The Role of B Companies in Tourism towards Recovery from the Crisis COVID-19 Inculcating Social Values and Responsible Entrepreneurship in Latin America

The Role of B Companies in Tourism towards Recovery from the Crisis COVID-19 Inculcating Social Values and Responsible Entrepreneurship in Latin America

Towards a Low Carbon ASEAN: An environmentally extended MRIO optimization model

Environmental ranking of European industrial facilities by toxicity and global warming potentials

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