Green-e: Company-LCA: a tool for the quantification of company - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Green-e: Company-LCA: a tool for the quantification of company environmental performances

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Environmental efforts: a shift vs. to the impacts!

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 1er trim. 2e trim. 3e trim. 4e trim.

Grave Raw Materials Cradle Production Site Use Waste treatement Impacts Environmental Effort

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Aims

1.How to assess the environmental impacts of a company going beyond on site emission? 2.How to make use of existing LCA databases in a more company oriented decision support tool? 3.How to do so following a clear and reproducible standard approach in a time- efficient way? 4.How to assess the company LC impacts consistently with the life cycle costs?

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Green-e: combination

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Life cycle thinking

Energy + CO2 Toxic impacts Legal compliance Life cycle costings

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Company’s Life Cycle System

Company processes (B) (b) Products use-phase (E)

Natural resources consumption Use-phase Direct emissions Company site direct emissions Natural resources consumption

Company waste disposal (C)

Natural resources consumption Waste disposal and recycling emissions

Suppliers for products use-phase (D)

Upstream emissions Natural resources consumption Natural resources consumption

Suppliers for company processes (A)

Upstream emissions

Products disposal (F)

Product disposal and recycling emissions Natural resources consumption

Products Company Upstream Direct Downstream

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Pharma Industry

R&D Chemical production Pharmaceutical production Packaging Worldwide sales (representants)

Switzerland Europe Europe Production site

Sales/ shipping unit

World

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CO2 Emissions Pharma Industry

CO2 Emissions at different Life Cycle Stages

1 2 3 4 R&D (energy) Raw materials Energy production Transport

Site production

Packaging Waste inceneration Buildings

kg CO2 / kg product

Sales representants Business travel Products Employees Raw materials Electricity Fossil fuel

Secondary packaging 6 x the product mass 70 x the active substance mass

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Life Cycle SystemsResults: Pharma exemple

Life cycle primary Energy Balance and related costs

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Primary Energy CO2 Emissions Costs

R&D (énergie) Sales representants Transport of produits Transport of raw materials Business travel Employees commuting Waste treatement Buildings Packaging Heating Raw materials Electricity

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Pharma: Conclusion

• Reductions of impacts have to be considered

also outside the classical company boundaries

• Decision-makers should realize that a

consistent environmental management has to be based on a life cycle perspective

• Merging LCA and LCC enables to validate the

right correlations

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Originality of the approach

Simple and scientifically reliable screening approach Quantified analysis of environmental impacts for Environmental Management Systems Life cycle philosophy: from suppliers to users, through to end of life Flexibility to others environmental evaluation tools like LCA, RA, etc. Links environmental impacts to costs Benchmark to standards and similar sectors

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