Over the past few years, the global economic system has needed to measure the companies’ sustainability performance but the application of current reporting tools presented gaps and justifiable operative obstacles. The thesis aims at analyzing the European regulations on sustainability reporting (EU Directive 2022/2462) and EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) standards and identifying connections between these European standards and the technical regulations related to methodologies for quantifying environmental impacts (in particular Life Cycle Assessment methodologies and tools - UNI EN ISO 14040 and Carbon Footprint regulation - ISO 14064). The goal is to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a simplified tool for measuring their environmental impacts and support them in showing the company's values in terms of environmental sustainability to the outside world. Considering the regulations and identifying some indicators for SMEs, the macro-categories of impact were examined, in terms of energy, resources consumed, and transport that companies will have to consider to obtain significant output indicators. It can be stated that the simplified model, although it is a result of a simplification of more complex methodologies for the environmental impact analysis, allows for achieving comparable results.
Negli ultimi anni una delle richieste più ridondanti da parte del sistema economico era rappresentata dalla necessità di misurazione delle performance di sostenibilità delle imprese e si evidenziava come l’applicazione degli strumenti di rendicontazione vigenti presentassero lacune e comprensibili ostacoli operativi. La tesi si prefigge l'obiettivo di analizzare le normative europee in tema di rendicontazione delle sostenibilità (Direttiva UE 2022/2462), gli standard EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) e individuare punti di contatto tra tali standard europei e le normative tecniche relative a metodologie di quantificazione degli impatti ambientali (in particolar modo metodologie e strumenti di Life Cycle Assessment - UNI EN ISO 14040 e normativa Carbon Footprint - ISO 14064) al fine di fornire alle piccole e medie imprese, uno strumento semplificato per misurare i loro impatti ambientali e supportarle nel mostrare all’esterno i valori dell’azienda in termini di sostenibilità ambientale. Date le normative e identificati alcuni indicatori per le PMI, sono state esaminate le macro-categorie di impatto, in termini di energia, risorse consumate, trasporti che le imprese dovranno considerare per ottenere indicatori significativi in uscita. Dai risultati ottenuti si può affermare che il modello semplificato, sebbene sia frutto di una semplificazione di metodologie più complesse per l’analisi degli impatti ambientali, si avvicina molto ai valori restituiti da quest’ultime.
Sostenibilità ambientale: metodologie e indicatori nel contesto delle piccole e medie imprese
FRATINI, LORENZO
2021/2022
Abstract
Over the past few years, the global economic system has needed to measure the companies’ sustainability performance but the application of current reporting tools presented gaps and justifiable operative obstacles. The thesis aims at analyzing the European regulations on sustainability reporting (EU Directive 2022/2462) and EFRAG (European Financial Reporting Advisory Group) standards and identifying connections between these European standards and the technical regulations related to methodologies for quantifying environmental impacts (in particular Life Cycle Assessment methodologies and tools - UNI EN ISO 14040 and Carbon Footprint regulation - ISO 14064). The goal is to provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a simplified tool for measuring their environmental impacts and support them in showing the company's values in terms of environmental sustainability to the outside world. Considering the regulations and identifying some indicators for SMEs, the macro-categories of impact were examined, in terms of energy, resources consumed, and transport that companies will have to consider to obtain significant output indicators. It can be stated that the simplified model, although it is a result of a simplification of more complex methodologies for the environmental impact analysis, allows for achieving comparable results.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12075/12612