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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development
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Brochure: Why Take A Life Cycle Approach?

Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: UNEP

Background

Today, there is opportunity for each of us to make well-informed choices – both as individuals and for the companies and governments where we work. A life cycle approach is one part of finding and attaining these opportunities.

There are opportunities for different nationalities, cultures, professional disciplines, governments, businesses and Non Governmental Organisations, (NGOs) to become partners, working together to develop in a sustainable way. We have greater ability to cooperate, to be informed about the source of our environmental, social, and economical challenges, and to engage people on a global and local scale to address these challenges (highlight a).