Difference between revisions of "SD"

Revision as of 17:32, 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