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Making sustainable consumption and production a reality

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Summary

This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development, business design and innovation.

Issuer

EU

Year

2010

Region

International

Issuer (type)

European Commission (International)

Instrument type

Guide

Disclosure instrument

No

Geographical scope

Regional

Mandatory or voluntary

Voluntary

Text analysis

    • Low 0.45%
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    • E focus: climate change, emissions, energy, energy use, environment, environmental management, greenhouse gas, land use, pollution, recycled materials, recycling, renewable energy, resource efficiency, resource use, soil, solid waste, sustainable products, waste, water, ecodesign
    • S focus: social impacts
    • G focus: audit
    • Finance, Management, Manufacturing, Mining, Retail trade