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Life Cycle Assessment: Implications for performance management of oil sands development

Life Cycle Assessment: Implications for performance management of oil sands development. Sarah Jordaan and Dr. Irene Herremans University of Calgary. Life Cycle Assessment of Oil Sands Technologies Kick-off Meeting November 3, 2006. Introduction. LCA as tool for developing indicators

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Life Cycle Assessment: Implications for performance management of oil sands development

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  1. Life Cycle Assessment:Implications for performance management of oil sands development Sarah Jordaan and Dr. Irene Herremans University of Calgary Life Cycle Assessment of Oil Sands Technologies Kick-off Meeting November 3, 2006

  2. Introduction • LCA as tool for developing indicators • Trends in reporting/impact assessments • Stakeholder expectations • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and significance to performance management • Help define roles and responses of actors • Focus management efforts on the value chain for strategic investment • Forward looking approach opens door for developing predictive indicators

  3. Performance indicators: Overview • What are indicators? • Forms of feedback • Indicator Types • Sustainability, environmental, social, economic • Input, output, outcome • Leading, lagging • Selection of indicators • measurable • easy to interpret • require action if negative trends occur • clear benefits if positive trends occur

  4. Relationship to LCA Action and performance improvements Modified from EPA (1993)

  5. Determining Roles and Responses Contingency table for environmental and social controls at the firm level

  6. For discussion • What is your experience with environmental and social performance management? • Is standardizing metrics an important thing to do for oil sands development and technologies? Specifically, is it important for life cycle indicators? Why or why not?

  7. References • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (1993). OECD Core Set of Indicators for Environmental Performance Reviews. A Synthesis Report by the Group on the State of the Environment. OECD, Paris. 35 p. • Pflieger, J., Fischer, M., Kupfer, T., and P. Eyerer. (2005). The contribution of life cycle assessment to global sustainability reporting of organizations. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 16(2): 167-179 • Schuh, C. (2002). Performance Indicators for Indoor Air Quality. PhD dissertation, Environmental Design, University of Calgary. • Schuh, C. and D. Thompson. (2002). Environmental Indicators, Chapter 12 in Tools for Environmental Management: A practical Introduction and Guide. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC. • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (1993). Life Cycle Assessment: Inventory Guidelines and Principles (EPA 600/R-92/245). Cincinnati, OH: U.S.EPA, Office of Research and Development, Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory.

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