Turning the Lens Around: LCA Success
Stories Outside-In
Eric Mieras and Alain Wathelet
Abstract Life Cycle Assessment experts are working on environmental assessments with both feet on the ground and faced every day with challenges around data
quality, allocation and other challenging topics. But what’s the perspective of the
people that are the audience of the results: “How do they look at LCA?” The
objective of this session was to show the value LCA has for people outside the LCA
Community that are not as familiar with the topic as the Experts. Sanjeevan Bajaj
(FICCI), Namy Espinoza-Orias (Nestlé), Pawin Boonyaporn (Advanced
Biochemical), Jens-Christian Holst (Siemens) and Aubin Roy (AvniR) shared their
experiences.
1 Introduction
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies are often prepared by high level scientists
and are focused on specific subjects for the interest of a small community.
Nevertheless, the development of Life Cycle Thinking in a business organization
leads to the use of a large panel of tools to demonstrate the sustainability of their
business solutions (products and/or services), and an LCA approach perfectly fits
this goal. During LCM, the benefits of this LCA approach are presented not only by
LCA practitioners but also from the different users of Life Cycle approaches.
The “outside-in” session is conducted from the LCA perspective with a look
from the perspective of users outside of the LCA community, including strategic
decision making, marketing team, R&I team and product development team.
E. Mieras (&)
PRé Sustainability, Stationsplein 121, 3818LE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
e-mail: mieras@pre-sustainability.com
A. Wathelet
Solvay SA, 1120 Brussels, Belgium
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_49
439
Stories Outside-In
Eric Mieras and Alain Wathelet
Abstract Life Cycle Assessment experts are working on environmental assessments with both feet on the ground and faced every day with challenges around data
quality, allocation and other challenging topics. But what’s the perspective of the
people that are the audience of the results: “How do they look at LCA?” The
objective of this session was to show the value LCA has for people outside the LCA
Community that are not as familiar with the topic as the Experts. Sanjeevan Bajaj
(FICCI), Namy Espinoza-Orias (Nestlé), Pawin Boonyaporn (Advanced
Biochemical), Jens-Christian Holst (Siemens) and Aubin Roy (AvniR) shared their
experiences.
1 Introduction
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies are often prepared by high level scientists
and are focused on specific subjects for the interest of a small community.
Nevertheless, the development of Life Cycle Thinking in a business organization
leads to the use of a large panel of tools to demonstrate the sustainability of their
business solutions (products and/or services), and an LCA approach perfectly fits
this goal. During LCM, the benefits of this LCA approach are presented not only by
LCA practitioners but also from the different users of Life Cycle approaches.
The “outside-in” session is conducted from the LCA perspective with a look
from the perspective of users outside of the LCA community, including strategic
decision making, marketing team, R&I team and product development team.
E. Mieras (&)
PRé Sustainability, Stationsplein 121, 3818LE Amersfoort, The Netherlands
e-mail: mieras@pre-sustainability.com
A. Wathelet
Solvay SA, 1120 Brussels, Belgium
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_49
439