Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "LIFE CYCLE"
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Annex 1: Methodology - Turning off the Tap: How the World can End Plastic Pollution and Create a Circular Economy
(2023-04)This annex includes Annex 1.1: Key metrics and assumptions in the business-as-usual and systems change scenarios; and Annex 1.2 Methodology for the Economic analysis. -
The Circular and Fair ICT Pact: A Procurement Lead Partnership to Accelerate the Transition to a Sustainable ICT Sector
(2022-07)The purpose of this publication is to implement a procurement strategy that accelerates the market for circular and fair ICT and contribute to a more sustainable ICT sector. -
Global Governance of Plastics and Associated Chemicals
(2023-03)The main objective of the study is to map the global governance of plastics and associated chemicals, identify governance gaps, and identify complementarities with existing multilateral instruments in particular the Basel, ... -
Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Organisations 2020
(2020)The Guidelines for Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) of Products provide a roadmap and a body of knowledge to help stakeholders in the assessment of social and socio-economic impacts of products’ life cycles, their ... -
Hazardous Substances in the Life Cycle of Electrical and Electronic Products (HSLEEP) - Assessment Report on Issues of Concern
(2020-09)A two-page summary of the information on hazardous substances in the life cycle of electrical and electronic products (HSLEEP) contained in the 2020 UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Chemicals and Waste Issues ... -
International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure: Integrated, Systems-level Approaches for Policymakers - Second Edition
(2022-04)The International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure are intended to provide guidance for global use on the integration of sustainability throughout the entire infrastructure life cycle, with the focus ... -
Pensamento do Ciclo de Vida: Negócios conscientes à caminho da sustentabilidade
(2017)Nesta cartilha, o empresário encontrará uma introdução prática sobre o pensamento de ciclo de vida e outras ferramentas, que podem ser aplicadas a empresas de qualquer porte. Para os pequenos negócios que buscam incorporar ... -
Policy Instruments on Product Lifetime Extension (PLE): Relevant Policies that Countries Have in Place, or Aspire to, for Addressing Product Lifetime Extension
(2021-11)This project led by UNEP in collaboration with Akatu Institute is developed under the umbrella of the Product Lifetime Extension Working Group of the One Planet Consumer Information Programme (CI-SCP). Activities under the ... -
Quality Assurance for Freshwater Quality Monitoring - Technical Guidance Document
(2023-06)This technical guidance document is intended for scientists and practitioners who work with freshwaters in the field and in the laboratory but who do not have specialist knowledge of quality assurance. It provides an ... -
Re-defining Value: The Manufacturing Revolution - Remanufacturing, Refurbishment, Repair and Direct Reuse in the Circular Economy
(2018)A primary objective of this assessment is to evaluate whether innovation within the production process can enable reduced negative environmental impacts of production without compromising economic opportunity and the ... -
Roadmap for National LCA Database Development: Guidance and recommendations from around the world
(2020)LCA sets the foundation for measuring resource efficiency, environmental impacts and ultimately circularity in our products and economies. The development of a national LCA database can help increase the availability of ... -
Single-Use Face Masks and their Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2022-06)This study by UNEP and the Life Cycle Initiative, reviews five scientific Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) on face-masks to draw conclusions on which among the available alternatives, single-use or reusable, have the lowest ... -
Single-use Plastic Bags and their Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2020)Single-use plastic bags (SUPBs) are one of the most consumed items globally and much debate has evolved around their environmental impact. However, their alternatives for shopping – e.g. cotton and paper bags – also come ... -
Single-use Supermarket Food Packaging and its Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
(2022-12)Food packaging’s ever-increasing reliance on single-use plastic formats along with the persistence of plastics in the environment, adds to the long-reaching – and as yet poorly characterized – impacts of plastic pollution ... -
Training Package for Mercury Flow Analysis to Identify and Monitor National Mercury Situation in its Entire Life Cycle - Users' Manual Ver. 1.1
(United Nations Environment Programme and United Nations Institute for Training and Research, 2023-04)The ‘Training package for mercury flow analysis to identify and monitor national mercury situation in its entire life cycle’ addresses the economic activities, such as mercury trade, production, use (sales), and manufacturing, ...