Environmental management. Life cycle assessment. Requirements and guidelines for organizational life cycle assessment

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle ◽  
Assessment Requirements ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

scholarly journals Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: The Introduction of the Production Allocation Burden

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 429-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Manzardo ◽  
Andrea Loss ◽  
Monia Niero ◽  
Chiara Vianello ◽  
Antonio Scipioni
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle ◽  
Production Allocation ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

scholarly journals Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of a Service Providing SME for Renewable Energy Projects (PV and Wind) in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Marx ◽  
Silvia Forin ◽  
Matthias Finkbeiner
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle ◽  
System Boundaries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

Companies are increasingly interested in reducing their environmental footprint. Thereby, they face the challenge of identifying and mitigating their specific impacts and hotspots and simultaneously avoid burden shifting. The organizational life cycle assessment (OLCA) method was conceived and successfully tested for the assessment if companies’ potential environmental impacts. Still, the method poses methodological challenges for the application to service providing organizations. In this paper, OLCA was applied to a service providing SME in the photovoltaic and wind energy business in the United Kingdom. The environmental impact profile of the reporting organization is dominated by transport activities, including the technicians’ trips to the solar farms, employee commuting, and business travels. According to the main goals of the study (gaining insights in internal operations and improving organizational procedures), recommendations to reduce travel-related impacts are provided. For existing methodological challenges like selecting the reporting flow and setting the system boundaries, innovative solutions like defining multiple reporting flows for different activities and to partly include service receiving objects in system boundaries are discussed with the aim to facilitate future applications.

scholarly journals The Environmental Impact of Organizations: A Pilot Test from the Packaging Industry Based on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11402
Author(s):  
Michela Rimano ◽  
Alberto Simboli ◽  
Raffaella Taddeo ◽  
Michele Del Grosso ◽  
Andrea Raggi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Global Reporting Initiative ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle ◽  
Production Site ◽  
Packaging Industry ◽  
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment

This article presents and discusses a pilot test concerning the environmental impacts assessment of organizations. The study was conducted in a production site of a world leading group in the plastic packaging industry. The purpose was to deepen the knowledge of the methodologies currently available and also of the benefits and the difficulties related to their practical implementation. The analysis was conducted in the period 2018–2019, in line with ISO 14044 and ISO/TS 14072 standards and therefore inspired by the organizational life cycle assessment (O-LCA) procedures and standards. The O-LCA test application has proved useful in detecting a number of environmental hotspots usually not detected by other life cycle based approaches, on which the organization should focus to undertake improvement actions, both internal and external (e.g., the category “employees commuting”). The experience gained in the production site under study also led to the replication of the assessment approach to other facilities around the world and for informing corporate sustainability reporting activities (e.g., Global Reporting Initiative and Carbon Disclosure Project reporting standards). Such results can provide methodological and practical insights to both scholars and practitioners in that field of activities.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document