“Assessing the environmental impact of products throughout their whole lifecycle – from raw material extraction to transport, consumption and final disposal – is being touted as the new mantra in environmental policymaking and sustainable business decision-making”.
L’analisis del ciclo di vita è stata descritta in vari modi, ma è la prima volta che ne sento parlare come “mantra della politica ambientale e dei processi decisionali del business sostenibile”.
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- 1996 : First UNEP publication on ‘LCA: What it is and how to do it’
- 1997 : First ISO standard on LCA
- 1997 : Sustainable development included in the Treaty of Amsterdam as a fundamental objective of the EU
- 1997 : European Environment Agency publishes guide to LCA
- 2001 : EU launches first sustainable development strategy
- 2001 : European Commission Green Paper on Integrated Product Policy ( IPP )
- 2002 : World summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg
- 2002 : Launch of the Life-Cycle Initiative by UNEP and Society of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicity
- 2003 : Commission study on the environmental impacts related to various product groups
- 2005 : Launch of the European Platform on Life-Cycle Assessment
- July 2008 : Commission adopts action plans on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and Sustainable Industrial Policy (SIP), a Communication on Green Public Procurement and other related legislative initiatives
- 2009 : UNEP guidelines for Social Life-Cycle Assessment of Products
- 29 Sept.- 2 Oct. 2009 : Joint North American life-cycle conference ‘Towards the global life-cycle economy’ [see programme and abstracts here ]
- 1-2 Feb. 2010 : SETAC Europe 16th LCA Case Studies Symposium ‘From simplified LCA to advanced LCA’
- 12 March 2010 : JRC launched an ILCD Handbook
- 12-13 July 2010 : EU environment ministers discuss Belgian EU Presidency initiative on Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) , which promotes a “cradle-to-cradle” approach to resource management in the manufacturing sector ( EurActiv 09/07/10 )
- By 2011 : Framework assessment methodology for food and drink products (SCP platform) should be finalised