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biolice Research Manager ULICE Riom (France) |
“Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) sets out to study three pillars of performance simultaneously – Economic, Environmental and Social – aiming at sustainability. Even though the bases for a methodological approach do exist, a lot of things still need to be standardized in order to obtain a process that is well-constructed, recognized and comparable. The analysis of industrial life cycles is an approach used for biolice. It is used to analyze the economic and environmental dimensions of production. Tomorrow it will lead to the concept of ecodesign. This will involve taking the environment and the economy into account any time a product is designed or improved on. For example this means optimizing consumption and costs regarding energy and raw materials, with the lowest possible impact on the environment. It involves indicators such as the carbon footprint.” |