MICA Knowledge Base

Footprint methods Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting Material and Substance Flow Analysis (M/SFA) Raw Materials Scoreboard 2018, WEEE management Raw Materials Scoreboard 2018, Air pollutant emissions Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Environmental Extended Input Output Analysis (EEIOA) Raw Materials Scoreboard 2018, Greenhouse gas emissions

LCA, LCI, LCIA, LCC: What’s the Difference? Social Licence to Operate and Corporate Social Responsibility Remote Sensing for Mineral Exploration Types of drilling in mining Energy Transition Environmental Impact Assessment EIA Geochemical Mapping for Mineral Exploration 3D modelling 3D Modelling (Block) Ground investigations for mineral exploration Tax incentives for circular economy Feasibility Study

Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014

European Commission - European Union (EU) Water framework directive - integrated river basin management for Europe European Commission - Environment - Waste EO miners Life Cycle Data Network - European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment Official Journal of the European Union - EU emissions trading directive A framework and requirements for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) models and indicators (ILCD Handbook) 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). EMIRI - The Energy Materials Industrial Research Initiative Air Pollution in Europe 1997 European Union mine waste directive European Environment Agency - Land use CREEA - Compiling and Refining Environmental and Economic Accounts Environmental Impact of the use of Natural Resources and Products European Commission - Natura 2000 A Research Agenda for Improving National Footprint Accounts Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia Environmental indicators: Typology and overview G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (Implementation Manual) [2015] Ecological Footprint Explorer Impacts of European Union (EU) carbon emission trade directive on energy-intensive industries — Indicative micro-economic analyses 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 Cross-Impact Method - A publication of United Nations Development Program's African Futures Project in collaboration with the United Nations University's Millenium Project Feasibility Study - Phase II The European Cement Association (CEMBUREAU) - Cements for a low carbon Europe Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis Materials critical to the energy industry (An introduction) Anthropospheric losses of platinum group elements Central Statistical Office of Poland EIONET - European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: Material Flows, Concepts and Methodology Groundwater Resources Maps of Euroupe System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA)

Raw Materials Information System, Air pollution Raw Materials Information System, Water MINATURA project Single Market for Green Products Initiative Raw Materials Information System, Climate & Low-Carbon

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Environmental pressures of materials, products & services Environmental footprints of materials, products & services

Non-energy, non-agriculture raw materials production: data to monitor the sector’s water use and emissions to water Life Cycle Assessment of Metals: A Scientific Synthesis (Nuss & Eckelman, 2014) Characterization of raw materials based on supply risk indicators for Europe Groothuis F. (2016), New era. New plan. Europe. A fiscal strategy for an inclusive, circular economy, The Ex’tax Project Life Cycle Assessment and criticality of raw materials: relationship and potential synergies Life Cycle Assessment of Metals: A Scientific Synthesis LCA of metals: a scientific synthesis Environmental Risks and Challenges of Anthropogenic Metals Flows and Cycles Potential of life cycle assessment for supporting the management of critical raw materials Mineral Exploration and Development: Risk and Reward

Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 A Community approach on the prevention of natural and man-made disasters (2009/2151(INI)) DIRECTIVE 2009/147/EC of 30 November 2009

What shall be done for preparing and submitting an EIA study for the development of mineral resources? 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 Substitution and its possible environmental impact