What is an environmental footprint?

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What is an environmental footprint?

An environmental footprint is the assessment of the potential environmental impacts of a defined product/service, organization or territory, within a specific spatial and temporal boundary. Environmental footprints are Life Cycle Assessment approaches which means that they take into consideration the whole life cycle of the studied system, i.e. all the steps from the raw material extraction through processing, distribution, use and end-of-life.

Environmental footprints are multi-criteria methodologies i.e. not only focusing on one environmental issue such as climate change or energy consumption, but covering several environmental impacts such as:

  • - Mineral/fossil resources depletion,
  • - Water consumption,
  • - Ozone depletion,
  • - Eutrophication
  • - Acidification
  • - Etc.
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