Sustainable consumption and production as a system: experience in Lithuania

Staniškis, Jurgis Kazimieras; Arbačiauskas, Valdas; Varžinskas, Visvaldas

doi:10.1007/s10098-012-0509-y

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“…An increase in Europe's innovative potential and competitiveness (Thomé et al 2016) was a central objective of the European Union (EU) Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and Sustainable Industrial Policy (SIP) Action Plan (EC2008) for Europe (Buttol et al 2012). The enterprises systematically started to apply improvement tools aimed at: production processes, management practices (Valipour et al 2015), products and communication with internal and external stakeholders (Staniškis et al 2012). This has led to the common introduction of innovation in business operations (Bossink 2015).…”

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Circular economy indicators in relation to eco-innovation in European regions

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The concept of a circular economy (CE) has become popular and important issue in environmental management in recent years; however, there are not particular indicators dedicated to it in regional policy. CE approach is an industrial system that is restorative by design, and it emphasises that it is important that, rather than extracting natural resources, the materials that have already been taken can and should be recovered and reused in different ways, thereby securing natural resources from over-exploitation. In order to meet CE assumptions, modern and innovative technologies that allow for the recovery of valuable materials should be developed. This also applies to eco-innovation that connects technology development with environmental aspects. It is therefore obvious that issues of CE and eco-innovation are linked, and a uniform methodology aimed at compare the levels of moving to CE including eco-innovation solutions should be established. Because the focus in European Union (EU) has been paid on regions, measuring of CE-eco-innovations levels is especially important at the regional level. In this paper, the proposals of CE indicators, based on eco-innovation factors, which can be possible to create based on existing data set (Eurostat, Cohesion policy) are presented. It is recommend to use of five group indicators for measuring regional CE-eco-innovation. Based on EcoInnovation Scoreboard which describes innovation measurement, three of proposed indicator groups are associated directly with innovations, taking into account the principles of CE: CE-eco-innovation inputs, CE-eco-innovation activities and CE-eco-innovation outputs, and other two groups of indicators are effects of the CE-eco-innovation introduction: resource efficiency outcomes and socio-economic outcomes. This way of measuring CE-eco-innovation allows for create holistic, systematic and integrated approach for the CE concept at the regional level. Proposed indicators can be used in current transition stage for assessment of implementation regional policy and as a base for creation final CE indicators.

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“…Currently, a newest concept for the pursuit of global sustainability (Staniškis 2012) is a circular economy (CE) strategy (Lilja 2015). The most important benefit in moving to a more CE-based approach is the possibility of retaining the added value in products for as long as possible , extracting their maximum value and eliminating waste.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circular economy indicators in relation to eco-innovation in European regions

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Kulczycka

Avdiushchenko

2017

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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“…During the last decades, initiatives in sustainable production have successfully focused on improving the resource efficiency in manufacturing systems (Jackson, 2005;Sikdar, 2011). However, despite the improvement in results of environmental practices of many individual producers, an increase in the amount of general consumption often exceeds the achieved progress (the so-called rebound effect) (Staniškis & Stoškus, 2008;Staniškis et al, 2012;Stø et al, 2006). It is becoming obvious that technological approaches are not enough to realise the goal of SD without critical assessment of human choices (Hertwich, 2005;Jackson, 2005;Dahl, 2012).…”

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Assessment of Overall SCP State of the Company: New Integrated Sustainability Index ISCP

Jonkutė

2015

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The encouragement of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in order to continuously improve the well-being of present and future generations is the most important goal stated in the European Union (EU) Sustainable Development Strategy, which was renewed in 2006. The challenge for every company on the way to SCP is not only to use appropriate methods and measures to solve their specific sustainability problems, but, first of all, to select appropriate performance indicators and implement an effective sustainability performance evaluation system. It may be useful to apply an integrated indicator as a single comparable index, reducing the number of sustainability decision-making criteria that need to be considered. However, despite various approaches to create frameworks and methodologies for the development of integrated sustainability indicators that measure, monitor and assess the progress of an enterprise towards sustainability, there is still no comprehensive framework for integrated sustainability assessment of the overall company state on the basis of manufacturing processes, products/services as well as relationship with various stakeholders. An algorithm is here presented in respect of this demand. This algorithm offers methodical suggestions to assess the customers' opinion about the presence of company's environmental and social sustainability activities and initiatives, to identify and select most appropriate sustainability indicators, to determine their significance according to analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and to solve the most important sustainability problems in 3 aforementioned levels by adapting most suitable tools. The final suggestions are based on the values of 3 sub-indices of a new integrated index for the overall assessment of the SCP state in the company, ISCP.

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“…During the last decades, initiatives in sustainable production have successfully focused on improving resource efficiency in manufacturing systems (Jackson, 2005;Sikdar, 2011). However, despite the improvement in results of environmental practices of many individual producers, an increase in the amount of general consumption often exceeds the achieved progress (the so-called 'rebound' effect) (Staniškis and Stoškus, 2008;Staniškis et al, 2012;Sto et al, 2006). It is becoming obvious that technological approaches are not enough to realise the goal of sustainable development (SD) without the critical assessment of human choices (Hertwich, 2005;Jackson, 2005;Dahl, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessment of Overall SCP State of Company: Results of Application of New Integrated Sustainability Index ISCP in 2 Enterprises

Jonkutė

2015

EREM

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The challenge for every company on the way to sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is not only to use appropriate methods and measures to solve their specific sustainability problems, but first of all to select appropriate performance indicators and implement an effective sustainability performance evaluation system. It may be useful to use an integrated indicator as a single comparable index, reducing the number of sustainability decision-making criteria that need to be considered. Since there is still no comprehensive framework for integrated sustainability assessment of the overall company state on the basis of manufacturing processes, products/services as well as relationship with various stakeholders, the algorithm for integrated sustainability assessment of the overall company state that can help to solve the most significant problems in 3 levelsmanufacturing processes/company's activities, products/services and relationship with various stakeholders-was presented in an earlier author's publication. This framework proposes the assessment of current sustainability conditions of a company on the basis of sub-indices of the composite index ISCP for sustainability evaluation and, according to them, can help to select and introduce the most suitable sustainable development tools for a particular enterprise to achieve its environmental and social performance goals. As the subjected algorithm was still theoretical, there was an urgent necessity to verify its real potential in particular enterprises. Therefore, the results of its verification procedure performed in 2 large, well-known Lithuanian joint-stock companies (JSC) from different business sectors are presented. The preliminary results of algorithm verification, despite all the limitations, are enough to propose that it is universal enough to be adapted for companies from various sectors of activities. Calculated values of the ISCP indicated an average level of the sustainability state in both companies. As the results of the sub-indices showed similar moderate results, both enterprises are strongly recommended to reconsider all 3 levels of their performance by applying some of the recommended measures and tools or at least by correcting the management and operation of already implemented ones.

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Sustainable consumption and production as a system: experience in Lithuania

Cited by 28 publications

References 7 publications

Circular economy indicators in relation to eco-innovation in European regions

Circular economy indicators in relation to eco-innovation in European regions

Assessment of Overall SCP State of the Company: New Integrated Sustainability Index ISCP

Assessment of Overall SCP State of Company: Results of Application of New Integrated Sustainability Index ISCP in 2 Enterprises

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