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Adrian Segens

Sustainability Advisor, Strategic Capability Group – A&T, Enterprise Growth Group

Santanu Ghosh

Head, Sustainability: Strategic Capabilities Group – A&T, Enterprise Growth Group

Highlights

A standard approach to quantifying and measuring the environmental impact of products, life-cycle assessment (LCA) is critical to making sustainable products.

The conventional bottom up (BU) approach to LCA is complex, time-consuming, costly, and unable to provide the insights businesses need for sustainability.

Applying “activity-based footprinting”, modelled on Activity Based Costing (ABC), is one way of addressing the first barrier to making LCA scalable and open automation possibilities to turn it into a sustainability management tool for the enterprise.