HOTSPOT ANALYSIS TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION To support science-based national policy frameworks
Sustainable Consumption and Production (known as SCP) is about more and better socio-economic growth with less. It is also about decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation, increasing resource efficiency and promoting sustainable lifestyles. To design frameworks conducive to a shift to SCP, policy-makers need to be informed of the key national economic processes and activities that are generating the most harmful environmental and socio-economic impacts (so-called “hotspots”). The “Hotspot Analysis Tool for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP-HAT)” aims at supporting science-based national SCP policies in countries around the world. The tool provides stakeholders of different levels of (policy) expertise with (1) an overview of a country’s performance with regard to SCP-related policy areas and (2) empirical evidence of hotspots of (un)sustainable consumption and production activities. The SCP-HAT allows for analysing direct as well as indirect impacts, i.e. supply-chain wide impacts, brought about by consumption and production activities of national economies.
SCP HAT’s methods and perspectives: Based upon an environmentally extended Multi-Regional Input-Output (EE-MRIO) model coupled with information from Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) Tracing all pressures and impacts occurring at different stages of complex supply chains Applying two perspectives: domestic production and consumption footprint Using same methodology and homogenous datasets for all countries Capability to compare different environmental categories, pressures and impacts, domestic and footprint perspectives and countries among each other