Article | REF: G5500 V2

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Overview, methodology, applications and limitations

Author: Patrick Rousseaux

Publication date: May 10, 2022, Review date: December 22, 2023

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Environmental protection was first formalized at international level in 1902 with a convention signed in Paris by nine countries to protect "birds useful to agriculture" . Another convention, the International Conference for the Protection of Fauna and Flora, was adopted in London in 1933, with the aim of protecting endangered species and recognizing protected areas such as national parks. However, it wasn't until the 1972 Stockholm Conference that the current legal framework for environmental protection was first developed. Since then, an international conference on the subject has been held every ten years or so. This recognition by international...

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