Social life cycle Assesment

A social analysis of the materials and technologies will be conducted using social life cycle assessment (S-LCA). S-LCA will assess the social and socio-economic aspects of materials or processes and their potential positive and negative impacts along their life cycle. These aspects assessed in S-LCA are those that may directly or indirectly affect stakeholders, including workers, local community, consumers, value chain actors and society. S-LCA also follows a life cycle approach, but the impacts in this case are related to socio-economic processes and comprise human rights, working conditions, health and safety, socio-economic repercussion, and so forth.