Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Towards a global life-cycle economy?

EurActiv - 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.

By 2011: EU expected to finalise a European Reference Life-Cycle Database (ELCD), an International Reference Life-Cycle Data System (ILCD), a Handbook of technical guidance documents for LCA and an ILCD Data Network.

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