Clean Technology Assessement

· Introduction to clean technology assessment :

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Nowadays, we live in a world where firms are looking for a way to produce efficiently and make profit while minimizing their environmental impact. One of the ways is to use clean technology.

Clean technology can be defined as “a diverse range of products, services, and processes that harness renewable materials and energy sources, dramatically reduce the use of natural resources, and cut or eliminate emissions and wastes.”

The concept of Clean Technologies includes many tools like renewable energy, green transportation or electric motors.

With a view to evaluate the efficiency of these technologies, it became necessary to implement tools in order to help companies in this initiative. One famous tool is the Environmental Technology Assessment process, a methodology created by the United Nations Environment Program, which is composed of five steps:

- Description of the technology: its nature, function, goals, life cycle and environmental pressures;

- Evaluation of the requirements of the technology and the resulting environmental pressures;

- Preliminary judgment: comparison of the environmental pressures of the technology with its economic viability;

- Comparative assessment of alternative technologies: considering if there are alternative ways to achieve the same goals with less environmental impact compared with the existing technology;

- Decide if a consensus decision can be reached, regarding the environmental and related performances of the proposed technology.

· Team members :

Thanks to this team, we have learned more about Clean technology assessment : Olivier F, Guillaume F, Lucille B.

· Bibliography :

If you are curious and if you want to go further on this subject have a look to these links.

- www.wikipedia.org

- www.unep.org.

- google images