WhyweNeedBetterEco-EfficiencyAnalysis.docVIP

SCHWERPUNKT Remmen, A.; Jensen, A.A.; Frydendal, J., 2007: The Triple Bottom Line – the Business Case of Sustain-ability. In: Life Cycle Management. A Business Guide to Sustainability. UNEP / SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, S. 10-11 Rikhardsson, P.; Bennett, M.; Bouma, J. et al. (eds.), 2005: Implementing Environmental Management Accounting: Status and Challenges. Berlin Saling, P.; Gensch, C.-O.; Kreisel, G. et al., 2007: Entwicklung der Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung SEEba-lance? – im BMBF-Projekt ?Nachhaltige Aromaten-chemie“. Karlsruhe (Karlsruher Schriften zur Geo-graphie und Geo?kologie) Saling, P.; Kicherer, A.; Dittrich-Kr?mer, B. et al., 2002: Eco-efficiency Analysis by BASF: The method. In: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 7 (2002), S. 203-218 Schaltegger, S. (ed.), 2007: Environmental Management Accounting for Cleaner Production. Im Er-scheinen WCED – World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987: Our Common Future. Oxford Weidema, B.P., 2006: The Integration of Economic and Social Aspects in Life Cycle Impact Assessment. In: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 11 (Sp. Iss. 1, 2006), S. 89-96 Kontakt Prof. Dr. Walter Kl?pffer LCA Consult Review Am Dachsberg 56 E, 60435 Frankfurt a. M. E-Mail: walter.kloepffer@t-online.de ? Realistic Eco-Efficiency Analysis Why We Need Better Eco-Efficiency Analysis From Technological Optimism to Realism by Gjalt Huppes, CML Eco-efficiency analysis relates two pillars of sustainability, the economic and the environmental one. There are several options for specifying eco-efficiency, as a partial or more encompassing concept. When using technology specification as the basis for eco-efficiency analysis, there is an inbuilt tendency towards unjustified optimism, as other societal mechanisms detract from the technology potential. A more systematic approach to modelling is required to arrive at a more realistic analysis, both lining the micro level analysis to the macro level sus-tainability consequenc