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 - note: link to Source processes
I2. Restricted substances intensity - note: link to Source processes
I3. Recycled/reused content - note: link to Source processes
Operations
O1. Water intensity - note: link to Source/Make processes
O2. Energy intensity - note: link to Source/Make/Deliver processes
O3. Renewable proportion of energy - note: link to Source/Make/Deliver processes
O4. Greenhouse gas intensity - note: link to Source/Make/Deliver processes
O5. Residuals intensity - note: link to Make processes
O6. Air releases intensity - note: link to Make processes
O7. Water releases intensity - note: link to Make processes
O8. Proportion of natural land - note: link to Make processes
Products
P1. Recycled/reused content - note: link to Source processes = I3
P2. Recyclability - note: link to? This is whether the product can be recycled later
P3. Renewable materials content - note: link to Source processes
P4. Non-renewable materials intensity - note: link to Source processes = I1
P5. Restricted substances content - note: link to Source processes = I2
P6. Energy consumption intensity - note: link to Source/Make/Deliver processes
P7. Greenhouse gas emissions intensity - note: link to Source/Make/Deliver processes
-- Caspar
Proposal
- Environmental Sustainability - natural resources/energy
- SD1 Sustainable Intake
- SD11 Water Intake (O1)
- SD12 Energy Intake (O2/P6)
- SD121 Renewable Energy Use (O3)
- SD122 Non-renewable Energy Use
- SD13 Material Intake
- SD131 Re-use/Recycled Materials (renew)
- SD132 Renewable Materials (new)
- SD133 Non-renewable Materials (new)
- SD134 Restricted Substances (new+renew)
- SD2 Sustainable Output
- SD21 Air Emissions
- SD211 GHG Emissions
- SD212 Non-GHG Emissions
- SD22 Water Releases
- SD23 Residuals Output (O5)
- SD231 Residuals Mass Balance (O51)
- SD232 Residuals Waste Output (O52)
- SD2321 Air
- SD2322 Water/Sewage
- SD2323 Land
- SD2324 Treatment/Recycle/Recovery
- SD2325 Other
- SD3 Sustainable Recovery
- SD31 Water Re-use
- SD32 Energy Re-use
- SD33 Material Re-use
- Economic Sustainability - continuity/re-use/recycle
- Social Sustainability - labor related