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UNEP would appreciate receiving a copy of any publication that uses this publication as a source. No use of this publication may be made for resale or for any other commercial purpose whatsoever without prior permission in writing from UNEP.  \nFirst edition 2005  \nThis UNEP publication was supported financially by the sponsoring partners of the Life Cycle Initiative: Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE), American Plastics Council (APC), Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME), International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), General Motors, Governments of Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Quebec and Switzerland as well as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.  \nThe designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations Environmental Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities, or concerning delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. Moreover, the views expressed do not necessarily represent the decision or the stated policy of the United Nations Environment Programme, nor does citing of trade names or commercial processes constitute any form of endorsement.  \n\n| UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION |\n| --- |\n| ISBN: |\n\nPRINT:  \nLife Cycle Approaches  \nThe road from analysis to practice  \nUnited Nations Environment Programme  \nDivision of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) Production and Consumption Unit 39-43, Quai André Citroën  \n75739 Paris Cedex 15 France  \nTel: +33 1 44 37 14 50  \nFax: +33 1 44 37 14 74  \n[E-mail: unep.tie@unep.fr](E-mail: unep.tie@unep.fr)  \nURL: [http://www.uneptie.org](http://www.uneptie.org)  \nA publication of:  \nUNEP/ SETAC Life Cycle Initiative  \n4  \n“We must develop production and consumption policies to improve the products and services provided, while reducing environmental and health impacts, using, where appropriate, science-based approaches, such as life cycle analysis“.  \nPlan of Implementation, World Summit on Sustainable Development  \n“Consumers are increasingly interested in the world behind the product they buy. Life cycle thinking implies that everyone in the whole chain of a product’s life cycle, from cradle to grave, has a responsibility and a role to play, taking into account all the relevant external effects. The impacts of all life cycle stages need to be considered comprehensively when taking informed decisions on production and consumption patterns, policies and management strategies.”  \nKlaus Toepfer, Executive Director, UNEP  \n“The results from the working groups [of SETAC on life cycle assessment] constitute a key contribution to the start of the UNEP-SETAC Initiative. A first activity in this Life Cycle Initiative will be to perform definition studies…; the results presented here will be an important input to the latter study. It is an explicit aim of the Life Cycle Initiative to incorporate working groups into the programme, in order to stimulate bottom-up scientific input.”  \nSETAC book, Life Cycle Impact Assessment: Striving towards Best Practice  \nAuthors  \nThis publication was prepared by Helias A. Udo de Haes and Martijn van Rooijen from the Institute of Environmental Science (CML) at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. The report is based on the Definition Studies whose elaboration was led by Konrad Saur (Five Winds International), Greg Norris (Harvard University) and Olviier Jolliet (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne) . 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