About this Session
Over the last 30 years, there has been efforts to culturally embed use of life cycle information to enable companies to realize benefits such as to grow revenue, reduce costs, enhance brand and mitigate risks (which is referred to as business values); and at the same time, improve a company‘s positive impacts to the environment and to civil society – doing more good – not just less bad.
Business as usual, is no longer an option in the era of climate change, resource scarcity and population growth. We understand that today’s complex, global value chains carry substantial risks and opportunities for almost all our products and materials that are integral to our livelihoods.
While there has been progress – there is still much to be done and additional challenges to solve – for example, marine litter is just one of those global impacts that were caused by how products are managed over their entire life cycle.
Actions are needed in a collaborative way by civil society, governments, and businesses to address plastics and other materials and products to develop solutions that reduce impacts to the environment without shifting burdens to another media such as land or air, and/or life cycle stage, beyond end of life. So we are understanding what and why, but how do you communicate messages related to various applications of LCA results to drive action and impact.
The purpose of the session is to identify and highlight golden rules for communicating LCT/LCA results to have an impact. Hopefully the interaction will stimulate the LCA Institute participants into identifying actions that they can take to maximize the value of your LCA studies.