Factor 10

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Factor Ten refers to the possibility of creating products and services that have a massively lower resource intensity than the conventional alternative.

It evolved from the concept of Factor Four, as developed at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment & Energy. ^[1][2]

Factor Ten goes further as a response to the United Nations Environment Programme call for a tenfold reduction in resource consumption in the industrialised countries as a necessary long-term target if adequate resources are to be released for the needs of the developing countries. ^[3]

Factor X concept is the direct way of utilising metric and various activities that can reduce the throughput of resources and energy in the given process. The essential question is: by what factor can or should certain flows be reduced? It is a useful tool to monitor the performance of business in terms of dematerialization. ^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ See: www.wupperinst.org/FactorFour.
2. ^ "FACTOR FOUR - Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use" was the title of the related book published by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Amory and Hunter Lovins in 1995.
3. ^ (UNEP, Global Environmental Outlook 2000, 1999).
4. ^ (Robert,K.H., Schmidt-Bleek,B. et al. "Strategic sustainable development, selection, design and synergies of applied tools." Journal of Cleaner Production, 2002).