Developing the use of tools and methods
How can you make your company more eco-innovative?
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Developing the use of tools and methods
How can you make your company more eco-innovative?

Author : Benoît Dabouis

Publication date: September 10, 2011, Review date: October 21, 2025 | Lire en français

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2. Developing the use of tools and methods

There are two types of tools and methods:

  • environmental assessment tools;

  • environmental improvement tools.

There are two main types of environmental assessment tools: multi-criteria approaches, covering several categories of environmental impacts (water, toxicity, biodiversity, human health), and single-criteria analyses focused, for example, on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions (e.g., Bilan Carbone®), water, or biodiversity (e.g., Global Biodiversity Score®).

The most comprehensive environmental assessment method is life cycle assessment (LCA)

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