Life Cycle Management

a Business Guide to Sustainability

Training Session
April 2007
7th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, 2007 1
Life Cycle Management Training -
Outline • Introduction to LCM
– This Session!

• Tools
– Second Session

• Exercising
– Third Session

Roundtable discussion
- Fourth Session

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Life Cycle Thinking

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 More sustainable

Sustainable development …without compromising the

“meets the needs of the ability of future generations to
present … meet their own needs.”

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Environmental Social Economic – The Triple Bottom
Line

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The Life Cycle – An Example

Worldwatch Institute, Worldwatch Paper 166: Purchasing Power: Harnessing Institutional

Procurement for People and the Planet, July 2003, www.worldwatch.org

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 Life Cycle Management is…

… the application of life cycle thinking to

business practices, with the aim to
systematically manage the life cycle of
an organisation’s products and services

… the systematic management of

product and material life cycles, to
promote production and consumption
patterns that are more sustainable than
the ones we have today

…a flexible integrated, management

framework of concepts, techniques and
procedures to address environmental,
economic, and social aspect of
products, procedures and organisations

adapted from Background Report UNEP Guide to LCM – A bridge to Sustainable Products Feb 2006 7
Where does LCM apply in the organisation?

Management
Product
Distribution
development

Life Cycle
Management

Sales &
Procurement
Marketing
Production

adapted from Background Report UNEP Guide to LCM – A bridge to Sustainable Products Feb 2006 8
Who is Active in Life Cycle Thinking Today?

DAIMLERCHRYSLER

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 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

Systems
&
Processes
Strategies
& Programmes
Concepts

Life Cycle
Management

Data Tools
Information &
& Models Techniques

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 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?
Dematerialization

Strategies
&
Concepts

source: Intier, Five Winds International, National Resources Canada 11

 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?
Dematerialization

Strategies
& Cleaner Production
Concepts

- Is an environmental strategy

- Can be applied to processes, products and services

- Can increase overall efficiency and reduce risks to

humans and the environment

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 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?
Dematerialization

Strategies
& Cleaner Production
Concepts

Industrial Ecology
Industrial Policy
Ecosystems Alignment

Balancing
Production and Improved energy
Natural Capacity use patterns

Dematerialization emulate metabolic

Pathways

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 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?
Dematerialization

Strategies
& Cleaner Production
Concepts

Industrial Ecology

Eco-efficiency

“Creating more value with less impact” (WBCSD)

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
&
Integrated and Processes
Environmental
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000, EMAS,
EFQM)

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
&
Integrated and Processes
Environmental
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000, EMAS,
EFQM)

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
Integrated and &
Environmental
Processes
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000,
EMAS, EFQM)

Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR)

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
Integrated and &
Environmental
Processes
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000,
EMAS, EFQM)

Classic
Responsibility

INPUTS
Final Product

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
Integrated and &
Environmental
Processes
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000,
EMAS, EFQM)
Extended Producer
Responsibility (EPR)
Waste
Use

INPUTS
Final Product

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
&
Processes
Integrated and
Environmental
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000,
EMAS, EFQM)

Extended Producer Integrated Product

Responsibility (EPR) Policy (IPP)

By using a variety of tools it is possible to develop a

policy that addresses the system wide impacts of
products or processes

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 What Does LCM
Encompass?
Systems
Integrated and &
Environmental Certification
Processes
Management Systems
(i.e. ISO 14000,
EMAS, EFQM)

Extended Producer Integrated Product

Responsibility (EPR) Policy (IPP)

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 What Does LCM
Design for Sustainability Encompass?
(DfS)

The systematic integration of environmental,

social and economic considerations into
product and process design.
Programmes
•Internal Drivers

•External Drivers

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What Does LCM
Encompass? Design for Sustainability
(DfS)
Supply Chain
Management

• Procurement policies, and

Programmes
procedures, are a common, and
effective, gate by which life cycle
management can develop in a firm

• Working with suppliers and supply

chain issues is rapidly increasing as
an important strategic consideration

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What Does LCM
Encompass? Design for Sustainability
(DfS)
Supply Chain
Management

Public Green Procurement

Programmes
• The best value for money considerations such as,
price, quality, availability, functionality, etc.;

• Considers the entire Life Cycle of products;

• Social aspects: effects on issues such as poverty

eradication, international equity in the distribution of
resources, labour conditions, human rights.

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What Does LCM
Encompass? Design for Sustainability
(DfS)
Supply Chain
Management

Public Green Procurement

Programmes
Stakeholder Engagement

“… Value creation for everyone involved in enterprise is

fundamental to creating common purpose and
addressing the complex issues facing the planet.”

- The Stakeholder Engagement Manual

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What Does LCM
Encompass? Design for Sustainability
(DfS)
Supply Chain
Management

Public Green Procurement

Programmes
Stakeholder Engagement

Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR)

• Integration of social and environmental concerns in

their business operations and in their interaction
with their stakeholders

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What Does LCM
Encompass? Design for Sustainability
(DfE)
Supply Chain
Management

Public Green Procurement

Programmes
Stakeholder Engagement

Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR)
Communication

• Any manner of information sharing with

stakeholders, generally through one-way,
non-iterative processes, i.e. Corporate
Sustainability Reporting

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Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

Analytical

• Input – Output Analysis

• Material Intensity

Tools
&
Techniques

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Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

Analytical

Procedural

• Audits Tools
• Checklists &
Techniques

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Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

Analytical

Procedural

Tools
&
Techniques

Supportive

• Standards
• Voluntary Agreements

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Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

Data: Databases, Data

Warehousing, Controlling

Best Practice: Best

Practice Benchmarks,
References, etc.
Data
Information
& Models

Models: Fate,
Dose-Response,
etc.

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 Session 2: LCM Tools
What Does LCM Encompass?

LCM is the systematically application of one of

several tools

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 LCM in My
Organisation
Systems
&
Processes
Strategies
& Programmes
Concepts
Certification

EcoEfficiency Life Cycle Communication

Management
Supportive, ISO standards on
Best Practice Benchmarks product eco-labeling

Data Tools
Information &
& Models Techniques

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 LCM in Her
Organisation
Systems
&
Processes
Strategies
& Programmes
Concepts
Extended Producer
Responsibility

Dematerialization Life Cycle Design for

Management Environment

Databases Analytical, LCA

Data Tools
Information &
& Models Techniques

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 LCM in His
Organisation
Systems
&
Processes
Strategies
& Integrated Management Systems Programmes
Concepts (i.e. ISO 14000, EMAS, EFQM)

Industrial Ecology Life Cycle Supply Chain

Management
Management

Procedural, Supplier Audits

Benchmark
supplier
Data management Tools
Information best practices &
& Models Techniques

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LCM In Context – An Example

Worldwatch Institute, Worldwatch Paper 166: Purchasing Power: Harnessing Institutional

Procurement for People and the Planet, July 2003, www.worldwatch.org

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 LCM In Context – An Example

• Groups of 4 persons
• Briefly describe the life cycle of your cloth (where it comes from,
which materials are used, etc.)

Geoffrey Gaudreault, NPR

• Briefly propose which LCM tools you would apply and which
social/environmental impacts would be addressed
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Roundtable Discussion

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Are you ready to implement Life Cycle Thinking?

Why Wait?

Thank you…

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