Consumption and Consumer Footprints for assessing and monitoring EU policies with Life Cycle Assessment
This report provides an overview of the LCA applied to assessing environmental impacts of consumption in EU as a basis to support several policies and the assessment of their impacts and benefits.
The content builds from the results of the Life Cycle Indicators (LC-Ind2) project , aimed at developing two sets of Life Cycle Assessment-based indicators for assessing the environmental impact of EU consumption: the Consumer Footprint and the Consumption Footprint. The indicators have been designed aiming at:
• monitoring the evolution of impacts over time in the EU and the Member States as well as the progress towards decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts.
• building an LCA-based framework for assessing relevant consumption and eco-innovation policies. Environmental impacts are assessed from three different perspectives: product group level, consumption areas (food, housing, mobility, consumer goods, and appliances) and average EU consumer.
• developing a single headline indicator to monitor the evolution of the overall environmental impacts of EU consumption and production at macro level. This includes the elaboration of a specific framework on which to build such indicator and complete time-series for each Member State and European Union as a whole.
• testing ecoinnovation scenarios along the supply chains, from extraction of raw materials, to consumer behaviour, up to end of life options.
SALA Serenella;
BEYLOT Antoine;
CORRADO Sara;
CRENNA Eleonora;
SANYE MENGUAL Esther;
SECCHI Michela;
2019-05-21
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC114814
978-92-79-99672-6 (online),
978-92-79-99671-9 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 29648 EN,
OP KJ-NA-29648-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-29648-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC114814,
10.2760/403263 (online),
10.2760/25774 (print),
