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❗ CALL FOR FEEDBACK: Are you working on using #PlanetaryBoundaries and #LifeCycleAssessment to perform Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessments?

📖 In a joint effort, researchers from the Centre for Absolute Sustainability, UCL and the EU Science, Research and Innovation have prepared the first “Guidance for applying absolute environmental sustainability assessment on activities at different scales (BETA VERSION)”.

🔹 Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment (AESA) involves comparing the environmental burdens of individual activities to planetary boundaries and other environmental carrying capacities to understand what it takes for these activities to be environmentally sustainable.

🔹 The beta version of the first practical guidance for how to apply AESA to activities at different scales is based on existing academic studies.

🔹 AESA is structured in three main phases (environmental impact estimation, carrying capacities allocation and results interpretation), comprising nine steps and eleven sub-steps.

🔹 The presentation of each (sub-)step is supported by three cross-cutting case studies covering a sample of residential buildings in Denmark, a major Indian cement company and the total consumption of the European Union.

🔹 The guidance is not normative around the unique carrying capacity allocation step, and instead offers a broad overview of existing methods, choices and considerations.

📢 A key aim of this beta guidance is to collect feedback from the user community, after which a consolidated guidance document will be published in early 2026.

👇 The guidance and the survey to submit your feedback are available here: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC142099

Please note: This Call for Feedback was originally posted by Esther Sanyé-Mengual (JRC) on LinkedIn and I’ve copied it over to help with the outreach here!