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Sustainability Toolkit for easY Life-cycle Evaluation

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About STYLE

• A SPIRE project

(international non-profit association formed to represent the private sector as a partner in the Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency (SPIRE) Public-Private Partnership (PPP) launched as part of the Horizon2020 framework programme)

• 24 months: Jan 2015 – Dec 2016
• Close cooperation with 2 other SPIRE projects:

SAMT Full title: Sustainability assessment methods and tools to support decision- making in the process industries MEASURE Full title: Metrics for Sustainability Assessment in European Process Industries

Partners

Project Objectives

To identify best practice in sustainability evaluation, across multiple sectors in the process industries and through value chains, via inventory and classification of established approaches To test and deliver a practical ‘toolkit’ for sustainability evaluation of processes and products, spanning multiple sectors that is easily usable by non-practitioners of sustainability assessments. To determine gaps, through critical assessment and validation, and identify future research needs to improve the ‘toolkit’ and ensure broad applicability across sectors.

WP1 - Project Coordination [Britest Lead] WP2 - Inventory, Classification and Assessment of tools [IVL Lead] WP3 - Industry Testing [ArcelorMittal Lead] Testing and critiquing selected tools and toolkits in real industrial processes WP4 - Validation [Utrecht Lead] Ensuring that the approaches selected are soundly based WP5 - Gap Analysis and Research Needs [RDC Lead] Identifying gaps in provision and how they might be addressed WP6 - Stakeholder Engagement and Communication [Britest Lead] Stimulating broad engagement throughout the project, to accelerate implementation

Work packages

WP2 – (External) tools recommended to WP3 in M12

Based on an inventory, making use of SAMT/Measure input, own research /contacts etc, a gross list of about 60 tools resulted! These 7 tools were selected for the final shortlisting:

• CCaLC2
• EcoDesign Checklist
• Ecolizer
• EPS2015
• IPIECA Community Grievance Mechanism (CGM) Toolbox
• Product Social Impact Assessment
• Social Hotspot Database

Final report: October 2016

WP2 – Selection criteria (summary)

• Three pillars of sustainability – Environment, Social, Economic aspects
• For the kit of tools
• No available tools identified covering all three pillars
• Life Cycle thinking and the full value chain
• Or easily applicable
• Technology readiness level TRL5-7 (i.e. validated in a lab but needs

scaling up)

• Detailed LCA tools therefore not so relevant
• Scope and Boundary – consideration of geographical location,

consequential

• Contradictory to previous point (?)
• Impacts, end-of-life (and ability of markets to absorb wastes/by-products.)
• Beyond Climate change only
• Transparency and use of recognised methods
• Adaptability to different sectors and TRLs (5-7)
• Some “good” candidates deselected due to sector specificity
• Practical tools that are not overly simplistic
• Important aspect in the shortlisting!
• i.e excludes detailed LCA tools

WP3 – Cross-sectoral Industrial Testing

Processes/products used for testing – phase I and II

• Tata Steel - HP355 – high performance rail, which has increased durability
• MAGSEP – Removal of suspended solids from steel industry water networks
• Solvay
• Production of a polyamide resin from recycled material vs. virgin

petrochemicals

• Veolia
• Upgrading waste water treatment to remove micro-pollutants

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Features of the tools based on testing

Which tool does what best based on observations from testing In phases 1 and 2?

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Increasing Data Requirements Technology Readiness Level

Tata Steel Product Sustainability Tool Veolia Water Impact Tool Solvay Tool LafargeHolcim Tool

Ecodesign checklist EPS PSILCA/SHDB CCalc Grievance Register Ecolizer

Ideal – Toolkit?

Possible Elements and building blocks for an ideal toolkit based on experiences from industrial testing

TRL 4-5 TRL 7-8 Integrated Qualitative Screening tool Social Impact tool Environmental Impact Tool Economic Impact tool Lab Pilot scale Quantified Sustainability Assessment Stakeholder priorities

Thank you!

Tomas Ekvall IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

The DYNAMIX project Nine lessons learnt

DYNAMIX TARGET 1: ABSOLUTE DECOUPLING

• Well-being increases
• Economy might increase
• Resource use declines

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DYNAMIX TARGET 2: SUSTAINABILITY

• Planetary boundaries
• Global fairness

Limited resource use in 2050:

• Virgin metals use -80%
• Greenhouse gas emissions

2 tonnes/cap

• Minimum excess

nitrogen & phosphorus

• No net use of

non-EU arable land

• No water scarcity

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DYNAMIC POLICY PATH - EXAMPLE

(Source: IEEP)

GDP Renewable Resource Non-Renewable Resource

Sustainable extraction for the renewable resource

Relative decoupling Absolute decoupling Absolute decoupling Within/towards resource limits Wellbeing

Tax & charges GPP, certification & awareness raising Recycling + eco-design Bans and quotas Wider ETR / EHS reform package + voluntary agreements Standards & Regulation R&D Targets + R&D

THREE POLICY MIX AREAS

• Policy mixes targeted at metals and other materials
• Policy mixes targeted at land-use
• Overarching policy mixes for decoupling growth

from resource use and impacts

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MULTIDISCIPLINARY POLICY ASSESSMENTS

• Macro-economic models

– Intertemporal Computable Equilibrium System (ICES) – MacroEconomic Mitigations Options (MEMO II) – MEMO Material Energy Waste and Agriculture (MEWA)

• IVL toolbox

– LCA – carbon footprint – material pinch analysis

• Qualitative assessments

– Environmental impacts – Economic impacts – Social impacts – Public acceptability – Legal barriers

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• 1. REDUCE MEAT CONSUMPTION

GHG EMISSIONS FROM FOOD PRODUCTION Scenario 0: no change Scenario 1: less meat Scenario 2: type of meat Scenario 3: S1+S2

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• 2. THE POTENTIAL OF CAR TECHNOLOGY

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* with feebate GHG

EMISSIONS OF EU CAR FLEET

• 3. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DISMANTLING

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4-6. THE IMPACTS OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS

IMPACT OF 200% MATERIALS TAX ON MATERIAL INTENSITY (SOURCE: MEWA)

• 25%
• 20%
• 15%
• 10%
• 5%

0% 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 Base case: reduced labour taxation, material efficiency increase via private R&D Alternative: no material efficiency increase via private R&D Alternative: increased transfers instead of reduced labour taxation

• 4. THE CALL FOR

STRONG INSTRUMENTS

• 5. THE BENEFITS OF

REDUCED LABOUR TAXATION

• 6. THE IMPORTANCE OF

TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS

• 7. THE BENEFITS OF SUPPORTIVE INSTRUMENTS

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Instruments that aim at changing… Supportive instruments (example) … economic structure Educational programmes … technology R&D funding … behaviour Information

• Circulate tax revenues back
• Make benefits apparent
• Implement border-tax adjustments
• Implement taxes gradually

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• 8. DESIGN FOR ACCEPTABILITY OF TAXES

POLICY MIX FOR METALS AND OTHER MATERIALS

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A DYNAMIC POLICY MIX

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2020 2030 2040 2050 year instruments

Materials tax Environmental taxes Labour taxes

• Materials?
• Energy?
• Land
• Regional water

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• 9. RESOURCE SCARCITY?

THANK YOU!

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Tomas Ekvall

tomas.ekvall@ivl.se +46 31 725 62 81