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LCA as input to LCC

Learn how LCA and LCC, originating from the energy crisis, can be integrated to analyze environmental costs effectively with case studies and methodologies discussed.

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LCA as input to LCC

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  1. LCA as input to LCC Bengt Steen Environmental Systems Analysis and CPM Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden

  2. Introduction • LCA and LCC both originates from the energy crisis in the mid 1970ies. LCC was developed by economists and LCA by engineers • They normally have different system borders • Lately, an increased interest in integrating LCA and LCC has emerged, (EU project DANTES, www.dantes.info and SETAC LCC working group)

  3. Driving forces for internalising externalities • Polluter pays principle (PPP) or “get the prices right” • Information society • Institutionalisation • Globalisation • IPP

  4. Identifying externalities • What is included • How is trade-offs handled? • How is uncertainty addressed?

  5. Identifying internalities

  6. Use of LCA for value estimation

  7. Environmental insurance • Insurance companies have ceased to offer insurances for environmental risks • This means that a company itself has to bare the costs. These may be either direct buffer funds to be used when the cost comes or oversized technology or administration to decrease the risks.

  8. Use of LCI for LCC • To some degree the processes in the value chain are the same in LCA and LCC. General information gathered in LCA may therefore be helpful in LCC and vice versa. • LCA software may be helpful in LCC

  9. Process related environmental protection costs in Sweden

  10. Process related environmental protection costs in Sweden

  11. Potential future costs for a refridgerator Comments Present costs for environmental protection is around 1% Damage costs are calculated with zero depreciation of future damages

  12. Outline of a procedural methodology for estimation of environmentally related costs in an LCC

  13. Conclusions • LCA offer several inputs to LCC • The time is right for an increased research in the area • The LCA methodology may need modification to be useful for an LCC • Some possibilities exists to estimate environmental costs, but present knowledge is immature

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