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Review: life-cycle assessment, water footprinting, and carbon footprinting in Portugal

Review: life-cycle assessment, water footprinting, and carbon footprinting in Portugal Purpose A review of readily available quantitative environmental data was conducted in order to determine the state of sustain- ability reporting and identify possible future research areas in Portugal. Methods Internet searches of articles written in English and published between 2001 and 2015 were conducted using the keywords Blife-cycle assessment,^ BLCA,^ Bwater footprint,^ Bcarbon footprint,^ and BPortugal.^ Additionally, reports from the Global Reporting Initiative (2015 only) were included in the search. Results and discussion It was found that 79% of reports found were published in the period 2011–2015. Several reports were found for the forestry, paper and pulp, food and beverage, energy and electricity, waste management, and automotive industries, while no reports were found for the textile, footwear and clothing, and base metal and mineral industries. As such, these are industries on which future studies might focus. No reports found were published by governmental organizations, although it is thought that expanding the search to include Portuguese language results would yields more results. The majority (68%) of companies reporting to the GRI adhered to the relevant guidelines. Conclusions A total of 72 reports were found (41 LCAs, water- or carbon footprints, and 31 GRI reports). It is unclear if there http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature
Subject
Environment; Environment, general; Environmental Economics; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology; Environmental Chemistry
ISSN
0948-3349
eISSN
1614-7502
DOI
10.1007/s11367-018-1483-3
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Abstract

Purpose A review of readily available quantitative environmental data was conducted in order to determine the state of sustain- ability reporting and identify possible future research areas in Portugal. Methods Internet searches of articles written in English and published between 2001 and 2015 were conducted using the keywords Blife-cycle assessment,^ BLCA,^ Bwater footprint,^ Bcarbon footprint,^ and BPortugal.^ Additionally, reports from the Global Reporting Initiative (2015 only) were included in the search. Results and discussion It was found that 79% of reports found were published in the period 2011–2015. Several reports were found for the forestry, paper and pulp, food and beverage, energy and electricity, waste management, and automotive industries, while no reports were found for the textile, footwear and clothing, and base metal and mineral industries. As such, these are industries on which future studies might focus. No reports found were published by governmental organizations, although it is thought that expanding the search to include Portuguese language results would yields more results. The majority (68%) of companies reporting to the GRI adhered to the relevant guidelines. Conclusions A total of 72 reports were found (41 LCAs, water- or carbon footprints, and 31 GRI reports). It is unclear if there

Journal

The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentSpringer Journals

Published: Jun 4, 2018

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