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Benoît Dabouis: Researcher, Industrial Engineering Laboratory, CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
INTRODUCTION
Sustainable design refers to the design of a product, service, or process with characteristics that are sustainable over time from an economic, social/societal, and environmental perspective. In the same vein, eco-innovation is a specific type of innovation that aims to create value for the customer and the company that is sustainable over time from these three perspectives.
The objectives of this fact sheet are:
to outline the challenges and key principles of sustainable design for products, services, or processes, such as the circular economy, eco-design, eco-innovation, and life cycle environmental impact accounting;
to propose six areas for consideration in eco-innovation or sustainable design.
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Our Common Future (also known as the "Brundtland Report"). United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987).
Our Environment Portal of the Office of the Commissioner for Sustainable Development (2023).
FORSTER (P.M.), SMITH (C.), WALSH (T.) et al. – Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: Annual Update of Key...
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Directive 2022/2464 of the European Parliament and of the Council, CSRD - Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (2022).
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