Alexis Laurent
Biographic Data
| ID | 6460334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexis Laurent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexis |
| FAMILY NAME | Laurent |
| SIGNATURE | LAURENT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technical University of Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0445-7983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quantifying the doughnut economy
Advancing sustainable development requires addressing the trade-offs between ecological sustainability and social well-being through holistic assessment approaches. Current efforts often cover all dimensions of sustainability by employing extensive sets of indicators that mix means and goals. Yet, this can result in selective indicator use, overlooking certain aspects, or data overload, ultimately causing confusion. The Doughnut Economics (DE) fr…
Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards
Given the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning corporate sustainability with them can be challenging. Drawing on systems thinking, this study examines how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) align with the SDGs and bridge macro‐level global goals with firm‐level metrics. The analysis revealed 429 of 1009 ESRS data points correspond with 71 of 248 SDG indicators, demonstrating the potential to enhance…
Beyond net zero climate targets
Recent years have seen a wave of net zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions. These represent translations of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 °C to targets for central actors, such as countries, cities and companies. Net zero climate targets hold the potential of a paradigm shift in how individual actors pursue sustainability, away from incremental improvements and towards sufficient reductions in environment…
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe
Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, focusing on the EU…
Toward global and national toxicity footprints
Estimating comprehensive toxicity footprints, encompassing potential impacts of toxic releases from consumption on human health and ecosystems, remains challenging due to the absence of complete emission inventories and disaggregation in global economic sectors. This study proposes an integrative approach to evaluate the global toxicity footprint by combining multiple databases, inventorying methods gap‐filling/extrapolation techniques, and envir…
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment
Environmental dissipation is a novel approach to account for impacts from mineral resources. In contrast to all other resource‐related life cycle impact assessment methods, which use data on extractions as input to calculation of indicator scores, environmental dissipation is characterized solely through emissions to the environment. Making environmental dissipation work as a viable resource use impact category in life cycle assessment requires, …
Sharing the safe operating space
In the light of increasing human pressures on the Earth system, the issue of sharing in the face of scarcity is more pressing than ever. The planetary boundary framework identifies and quantifies nine environmental boundaries and corresponding human pressures. However, when aiming to make the concept operational for decision support it is unclear how this safe operating space (SOS) within each of the planetary boundaries should be shared. This st…
Contribution of circular economy strategies to climate change mitigation
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries are asked to put forward their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which present their proposed pathways to tackle climate change. To that end, circular economy (CE) has been proposed as a potentially important catalyzer to meet NDCs. Yet, the potential of CE strategies to help reach climate goals at the country scale has been little explored until now. Here, we propose a consistent step‐wise meth…
Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase
Life cycle interpretation is the fourth and last phase of life cycle assessment (LCA). Being a “pivot” phase linking all other phases and the conclusions and recommendations from an LCA study, it represents a challenging task for practitioners, who miss harmonized guidelines that are sufficiently complete, detailed, and practical to conduct its different steps effectively. Here, we aim to bridge this gap. We review available literature describing…
Lc‐impact
Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a lively field of research, and data and models are continuously improved in terms of impact pathways covered, reliability, and spatial detail. However, many of these advancements are scattered throughout the scientific literature, making it difficult for practitioners to apply the new models. Here, we present the LC-IMPACT method that provides characterization factors at the damage level for 11 impact categ…
Are aquaculture growth policies in high-income countries due diligence or illusionary dreams? Foreseeing policy implications on seafood production in Singapore
Renewable Energy and Carbon Management in the Cradle‐to‐Cradle Certification
As part of the Cradle to Cradle ® (C2C) certification program, the C2C certification criterion, Renewable Energy and Carbon Management (RE&CM), focuses on use of electricity from renewable energy (RE) and direct greenhouse gas offsets in the manufacturing stage and, to a limited extent, on the cradle to gate only at the highest level of certification. The aim of this study is to provide decision makers with a quantified overview of possible limit…
Potentials and limitations of footprints for gauging environmental sustainability
Ethical aspects of life cycle assessments of diets
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe
Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, focusing on the EU…
Ethical aspects of life cycle assessments of diets
Are aquaculture growth policies in high-income countries due diligence or illusionary dreams? Foreseeing policy implications on seafood production in Singapore
Ethical aspects of life cycle assessments of diets
Potentials and limitations of footprints for gauging environmental sustainability
Renewable Energy and Carbon Management in the Cradle‐to‐Cradle Certification
As part of the Cradle to Cradle ® (C2C) certification program, the C2C certification criterion, Renewable Energy and Carbon Management (RE&CM), focuses on use of electricity from renewable energy (RE) and direct greenhouse gas offsets in the manufacturing stage and, to a limited extent, on the cradle to gate only at the highest level of certification. The aim of this study is to provide decision makers with a quantified overview of possible limit…
Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase
Life cycle interpretation is the fourth and last phase of life cycle assessment (LCA). Being a “pivot” phase linking all other phases and the conclusions and recommendations from an LCA study, it represents a challenging task for practitioners, who miss harmonized guidelines that are sufficiently complete, detailed, and practical to conduct its different steps effectively. Here, we aim to bridge this gap. We review available literature describing…
Lc‐impact
Life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) is a lively field of research, and data and models are continuously improved in terms of impact pathways covered, reliability, and spatial detail. However, many of these advancements are scattered throughout the scientific literature, making it difficult for practitioners to apply the new models. Here, we present the LC-IMPACT method that provides characterization factors at the damage level for 11 impact categ…
Are aquaculture growth policies in high-income countries due diligence or illusionary dreams? Foreseeing policy implications on seafood production in Singapore
Sharing the safe operating space
In the light of increasing human pressures on the Earth system, the issue of sharing in the face of scarcity is more pressing than ever. The planetary boundary framework identifies and quantifies nine environmental boundaries and corresponding human pressures. However, when aiming to make the concept operational for decision support it is unclear how this safe operating space (SOS) within each of the planetary boundaries should be shared. This st…
Contribution of circular economy strategies to climate change mitigation
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries are asked to put forward their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), which present their proposed pathways to tackle climate change. To that end, circular economy (CE) has been proposed as a potentially important catalyzer to meet NDCs. Yet, the potential of CE strategies to help reach climate goals at the country scale has been little explored until now. Here, we propose a consistent step‐wise meth…
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment
Environmental dissipation is a novel approach to account for impacts from mineral resources. In contrast to all other resource‐related life cycle impact assessment methods, which use data on extractions as input to calculation of indicator scores, environmental dissipation is characterized solely through emissions to the environment. Making environmental dissipation work as a viable resource use impact category in life cycle assessment requires, …
Toward global and national toxicity footprints
Estimating comprehensive toxicity footprints, encompassing potential impacts of toxic releases from consumption on human health and ecosystems, remains challenging due to the absence of complete emission inventories and disaggregation in global economic sectors. This study proposes an integrative approach to evaluate the global toxicity footprint by combining multiple databases, inventorying methods gap‐filling/extrapolation techniques, and envir…
Assessing the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains for the energy transition in Europe
Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, focusing on the EU…
Quantifying the doughnut economy
Advancing sustainable development requires addressing the trade-offs between ecological sustainability and social well-being through holistic assessment approaches. Current efforts often cover all dimensions of sustainability by employing extensive sets of indicators that mix means and goals. Yet, this can result in selective indicator use, overlooking certain aspects, or data overload, ultimately causing confusion. The Doughnut Economics (DE) fr…
Bridging Global Sustainability Objectives With Corporate Reporting Standards
Given the complexity of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aligning corporate sustainability with them can be challenging. Drawing on systems thinking, this study examines how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) align with the SDGs and bridge macro‐level global goals with firm‐level metrics. The analysis revealed 429 of 1009 ESRS data points correspond with 71 of 248 SDG indicators, demonstrating the potential to enhance…
Beyond net zero climate targets
Recent years have seen a wave of net zero targets for greenhouse gas emissions. These represent translations of the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 °C to targets for central actors, such as countries, cities and companies. Net zero climate targets hold the potential of a paradigm shift in how individual actors pursue sustainability, away from incremental improvements and towards sufficient reductions in environment…
Economics (11 works) · Sustainability (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental economics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Industrial ecology (7 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Natural resource economics (6 works)