BSR Insight | How Can Companies Use Life-Cycle Metrics for Sustainable Consumption?
Now in its third year, the World Economic Forum's (WEF) sustainable consumption work is moving toward tangible actions in three different work streams: engaging consumers, exchanging innovation, and life-cycle metrics.
In preparation for the January 2011 Davos meeting, BSR joined business leaders and NGOs to refine the objectives for the life-cycle work stream to move it from the realm of operations and into strategic decision-making.
WEF will use case studies, interviews, research, and workshops to address three key questions:
- How can policy enable and support the use of life-cycle metrics to move business toward sustainability?
- How can life-cycle thinking be embedded throughout a firm?
- How can we encourage companies to share strategies and technologies along their value chains in order to multiply the benefits of sustainability and resource efficiency?
For more information about BSR's work on sustainable consumption, read our latest report or contact Virginia Terry.
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Virginia Terry, Manager, Advisory Services
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