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As set up in Agenda 2025, ESA strives for being the role model for a modern global space agency fully committed to improve the sustainability and social responsibility of space activities by 2030. The ESA Green Agenda contains actions in five different areas that will lead to a more sustainable Agency, notably:
- Area 1: Develop and implement a sustainability strategy for ESA space projects and activities, including the development of a methodology to quantitatively evaluate (ex-ante and ex-post) the environmental positive impacts (downstream) of ESA projects and activities.
- Area 3: Promote the execution of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), as a main instrument to assess the environmental performance of space systems and identify relevant hotspots to be mitigated through eco-design.
The purpose of the activity “Case studies on the environmental and sustainability impacts of selected ESA activities with LCA” is to develop the expertise in assessing environmental and sustainability impacts of ESA projects and activities through ten case studies evaluated with LCA.
For each case study, ESA would like to identify the key environmental hotspots within its own scope of activities and be able to identify and possibly assess the potential benefits for other activities related to the services provided by ESA’s activities. The idea is to use the case studies as a basis for a conceptual framework applicable to evaluate ESA’s other and future activities.
Deloitte has been contracted in a Consortium with VITO and RINA to evaluate the environmental and sustainability impacts of the ten selected case studies, followed by the development of the conceptual framework.
This session will present the ten case studies, methodological developments / issues and the future outlook for this ongoing activity.
