MICA Knowledge Base

Material and Substance Flow Analysis (M/SFA) Environmental Extended Input Output Analysis (EEIOA)

LCA, LCI, LCIA, LCC: What’s the Difference? Social Licence to Operate and Corporate Social Responsibility Energy Transition Feasibility Study

Ecoinvent (environmental data) GEMAS Geochemical mapping of agricultural and grazing land soil Mineral Products Association (MPA) - Sustainable communities Mineral Products Association (MPA) - Natural Resources European Commission - The Habitats directive Official Journal of the European Union - EU directive on Environmental assessments EO miners Official Journal of the European Union - EU emissions trading directive Rio Tinto Limited - Our commitment Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) standard for responsible mining IRMA-STD-001 G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (Reporting Principles and Standard Disclosures) [2015] Analysis of existing Environmental Impact Assessment methodologies for use in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The Geochemical Baseline Survey of the Environment Air Pollution in Europe 1997 European Union mine waste directive European Environment Agency - Land use CREEA - Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts Lundin Mining Corporation Environmental Impact of the use of Natural Resources and Products European Commission - Natura 2000 A Research Agenda for Improving National Footprint Accounts European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Environmental indicators: Typology and overview G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (Implementation Manual) [2015] Ecological Footprint Explorer Cobalt Development Institute (CDI) Policy Review on Decoupling: Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis Materials critical to the energy industry (An introduction) Decoupling, natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth The polluter-pays principle and environmental liability EIONET - European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: Material Flows, Concepts and Methodology System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) eurogeosource

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Direct subconcepts

Transboundary air pollution Ocean pollution Climate change

Life Cycle Assessment of Metals: A Scientific Synthesis (Nuss & Eckelman, 2014)

What are the environmental impacts of using a specific resource/ raw material in general? What are possible substitutes for material x in product y and how will this influence the environmental impacts of the product?

Environmental impacts linked to the use of raw materials