@article{10902/30859,
year = {2023},
month = {10},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30859},
abstract = {The development of emerging decarbonization technologies requires advanced tools for decision-making that incorporate the environmental perspective from the early design. Today, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is the preferred tool to promote sustainability in the technology development, identifying environmental challenges and opportunities and defining the final implementation pathways. So far, most environmental studies related to decarbonization emerging solutions are still limited to midpoint metrics, mainly the carbon footprint, with global sustainability implications being relatively unexplored. In this sense, the Planetary Boundaries (PBs) have been recently proposed to identify the distance to the ideal reference state. Hence, PB-LCA methodology can be currently applied to transform the resource use and emissions to changes in the values of PB control variables. This study shows a complete picture of the LCA’s role in developing emerging technologies. For this purpose, a case study based on the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to formic acid is used to show the possibilities of LCA approaches highlighting the potential pitfalls when going beyond greenhouse gas emission reduction and obtaining the absolute sustainability level in terms of four PBs.},
organization = {Financial support from the project PID2020-112845RB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 is gratefully acknowledged. J.F.-G. would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation (MICIN) for the concession of the FPU grant (19/05483).},
publisher = {American Chemical Society},
publisher = {JACS Au, 2023, 3(10), 2631-2639},
title = {The relevance of Life Cycle Assessment tools in the development of emerging decarbonization technologies},
author = {Fernández González, Javier and Rumayor Villamil, Marta and Domínguez Ramos, Antonio and Irabien Gulías, Ángel and Ortiz Uribe, Inmaculada},
}