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Life Cycle Engineering as a Pathway to Achieving Net-zero Targets.
- Source :
- Procedia CIRP; 2024, Vol. 122, p12-18, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Life cycle engineering (LCE) was introduced in the early 1990s with a focus on eco-efficiency, hence designing products to reduce the environmental impact over their life cycle while maintaining or increasing the value created. In the meantime, the world has seen the emergence of a climate crisis and a biodiversity crisis despite significant eco-efficiency improvements of individual products and services over the years, highlighting the gap between bottom-up LCE activities and top-down sustainability concepts such as planetary boundaries and net-zero targets for climate change. This paper presents a structured LCE approach for practitioners, supporting life cycle engineering of product life cycles with an absolute sustainability perspective towards achieving net-zero targets. An industrial case is provided to demonstrate the applicability of the methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22128271
- Volume :
- 122
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Procedia CIRP
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177032484
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.01.003