Making sustainable consumption and production a reality. A guide for business and policy makers to Life Cycle Thinking and Assessment

Increasingly consumers want to make the right environmental choices when buying products. Policy makers want to promote sustainable consumption and production to respond to national and international environmental challenges. This 32-page guide has been developed to help address these issues and help both the public and private sectors make more informed decisions to achieve better environmental outcomes. It 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.

European Commission: DG Environment: Making sustainable consumption and production a reality http://ec.europa.eu/environment/pubs/pdf/sustainable.pdf

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