Life-Cycle Assessment as a Sustainability Management Tool: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Other Considerations

摘要

LCA is a tool with an array of applications that can aid in the understanding and management of environmental impacts. Accurate LCAs can target efforts to use resources more efficiently and decrease harmful emissions, including GHGs. Companies must adopt responsible disclosure policies about their supply chains and manufacturing to ensure that data are available. It will not be an insignificant task to improve quantification of GHG emissions, which continuously vary over the course of production. To facilitate quantifying emissions, technology may be used to enable the compilation of real-time data. This in turn will make LCA a powerful tool for controlling actual emissions.