More about Social Life Cycle Assessment (sLCA)

A Social Life Cycle Assessment is being done for each INCOVER technology.

The Social Life Cycle Assessment (sLCA) is based on semi-quantitative social indicators system aggregated by impact categories (local jobs created, health and safety policies, etc.) and stakeholders groups (worker, local community, consumer, etc.). 

The data for calculating indicators was collected by a questionnaire from each INCOVER technologic partners individually and characterized with regional sector-specific reference data. 

For every indicator the target or threshold compliance (%) was calculated and applied weightings to aggregate results on category (Stakeholder Social Index – SSI, for each considered category – i) worker, ii) local community / society, iii) consumer / user, iv) value chain actors) and on overall index (Overall Social Index - OSI). Therefore, there are two weighting/aggregation tiers that allows the conversion from inventory indicator results (inventory results) to a category result and another that aggregates categories results to social overall impact result.

For each indicator, complementary qualitative analysis is also accomplished, describing some of the major positive (pollution mitigation, creation of local jobs, etc.) and negative social impacts (land conflicts, resettlement conflicts, etc.).