Difference between revisions of "SD"

Revision as of 16:32, 10 November 2021

I recommend we start with the OECD metrics (similarly like how we use the Sustainable Development Goal class for sustainable development goals.

We need to classify them by the 3 sub-attributes identified:

• Economic Sustainability =The ability to support a defined level of economic production indefinitely. Focus on poverty, hunger, and health. In a business context this implies using assets efficiently and effectively to ensure continued profitability and re-use of raw materials.
• Environmental Sustainability = The ability to maintain rates of renewable resource harvest, pollution creation, and non-renewable resource depletion that can be continued indefinitely; Focus on the environment, natural resources, and energy. In a business context this implies reducing a companies environmental footprint, net energy consumption, and shortening supply, production and distribution networks.
• Social Sustainability = The ability to build and support healthy communities that support current and future generations; Focus on education, equality, peace, and justice. In a business context this implies enforcing basic human rights, labor rights and corporate governance.

Here are the OECD metrtics:

Inputs

I1. Non-renewable materials intensity I2. Restricted substances intensity I3. Recycled/reused content

Operations

O1. Water intensity O2. Energy intensity O3. Renewable proportion of energy O4. Greenhouse gas intensity O5. Residuals intensity O6. Air releases intensity O7. Water releases intensity O8. Proportion of natural land

Products

P1. Recycled/reused content P2. Recyclability P3. Renewable materials content P4. Non-renewable materials intensity P5. Restricted substances content P6. Energy consumption intensity P7. Greenhouse gas emissions intensity