TY - JOUR
T1 - Using life cycle assessment to achieve a circular economy
AU - Peña, Claudia
AU - Civit, Bárbara
AU - Gallego-Schmid, Alejandro
AU - Druckman, Angela
AU - Caldeira-Pires, Armando
AU - Weidema, Bo
AU - Mieras, Eric
AU - Wang, Feng
AU - Fava, Jim
AU - Canals, Llorenç Milà i.
AU - Cordella, Mauro
AU - Arbuckle, Peter
AU - Valdivia, Sonia
AU - Fallaha, Sophie
AU - Motta, Wladmir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - The current global interest in circular economy (CE) opens an opportunity to make society’s consumption and production patterns more resource efficient and sustainable. However, such growing interest calls for precaution as well, as there is yet no harmonised method to assess whether a specific CE strategy contributes towards sustainable consumption and production. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is very well suited to assess the sustainability impacts of CE strategies. This position paper of the Life Cycle Initiative (hosted by UNEP) provides an LCA perspective on the development, adoption, and implementation of CE, while pointing out strengths and challenges in LCA as an assessment methodology for CE strategies.
AB - The current global interest in circular economy (CE) opens an opportunity to make society’s consumption and production patterns more resource efficient and sustainable. However, such growing interest calls for precaution as well, as there is yet no harmonised method to assess whether a specific CE strategy contributes towards sustainable consumption and production. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is very well suited to assess the sustainability impacts of CE strategies. This position paper of the Life Cycle Initiative (hosted by UNEP) provides an LCA perspective on the development, adoption, and implementation of CE, while pointing out strengths and challenges in LCA as an assessment methodology for CE strategies.
KW - Circular economy
KW - Circularity
KW - Complementary methodologies
KW - Life cycle assessment
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85099826089
U2 - 10.1007/s11367-020-01856-z
DO - 10.1007/s11367-020-01856-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099826089
SN - 0948-3349
VL - 26
SP - 215
EP - 220
JO - International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
JF - International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
IS - 2
ER -
