Jordan, Nino David;
(2025)
Spillovers from production‑based environmental reporting to product
labelling.
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
10.1007/s11367-025-02441-y.
(In press).
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Abstract
Purpose: Although intuitively plausible, claims of causal links between corporate- and facility-level environmental reporting requirements and the rise of LCA-based labelling are not yet supported by explicit theoretical, empirical or historical analyses. Do production-based environmental monitoring and reporting have spillover effects and thus facilitate product-level disclosure of life cycle impacts? What is the evidence for different types of spillover effects? // Methods: Thematic analysis of a dataset comprising qualitative statements made by a global set of hundreds of companies, as well as expert interviews and statements by industry associations and consultancies active in the area of product-based environmental disclosure. // Results: The analysis demonstrates spillover mechanisms related to data, expertise and systems. Evidence is stronger for the role of expertise and systems than for data itself. However, data availability is closely linked to data expertise and the corresponding systems. // Conclusions: Increasingly stringent corporate- and facility-level environmental reporting renders environmental life cycle labelling more feasible, thus enabling novel policy options.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Spillovers from production‑based environmental reporting to product labelling |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11367-025-02441-y |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-025-02441-y |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Environmental Product Declarations; Product carbon footprints; Life cycle assessments; Environmental reporting; Carbon disclosure; Corporate reporting |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205834 |
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