Transforming an Existing Scientific Sub-metric into a Universal Ecological Certificate for Automated Material Flow Exchanges How to close the loop between earth’s resources,industrial activity,personal consumption and planetary boundaries
作者单位：Technical LeadThe myEcoCost Project Platform Independent Systems Ltd
会议名称：《2019年第四届经济与企业管理国际学术会议》
会议日期：2020年
学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020106[经济学-人口、资源与环境经济学]
基 金：the European Union for co-funding the my EcoCost Project grant agreement ID 308530
关 键 词：resources economy ecological economy environment economy accounting planetary boundaries ecocost myecocost automated material flow exchanges ecoaccounting sustainability circular economy
摘 要：Earth’s Politicians have agreed a target to cap global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial *** the agreement of such a target is a laudable achievement,one has to be wondering how we will achieve *** does sustainability actually mean and how do we measure it? And when will we know this goal has been achieved? Put more succinctly:what needs to happen in the economy to help us stay within the target? The promise of clever engineering to solve the problem was made many years ago but it hasn’t materialized.A key ingredient to the industrial success of our economy is the freedom that entrepreneurs and business owners have to create products that serve the wishes of *** one wants this freedom of expression and access to such products to be curbed,but a brake of some sort may need to be *** paper investigates the fundamental missing link that would enable people to understand the environmental impact of their economic/consumption *** posits that what is missing is an environmental accounting system that enables all economic actors to easily and therefore actively engage in a cogent sustainability *** a solution would link economic activity to planetary *** any such global aspiration can be contemplated however,we would need a universally agreed metric,or system of metrics,in order to communicate effectively.A universally applicable ecological certificate is *** is based on the existing scientific method of life cycle analysis;extending an existing sub metric with a vital missing component that could then behave like a global ecological currency.