Highlights
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Planetary Boundaries help quantify the environmental sustainability of consumption.
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We developed LCIA-based planetary boundaries for evaluating the EU consumption.
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EU consumption occupies a high share of the safe operating space globally available.
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Planetary boundaries are fundamental to support policy making towards sustainability.
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LCA-based planetary boundaries show intrinsic uncertainties.
Keywords: Consumption patterns, Impact assessment, Life cycle assessment based indicator, Sustainable development goals, Absolute sustainability, Carrying capacity
The supplementary data file of the paper has been updated, with the following modifications:
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SM1: The value of the global normalization factor (NF) for land use is 7.82E+14.
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SM3: The values for the impact category Land use have been corrected for the total results (row 20) and per person results (row 39).
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SM4: The values for the impact category Land use have been corrected for the total results (row 20) and per person results (row 39).
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Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgements
The present study was financially supported by the European Commission Directorate General Environment (DG ENV) via the Administrative Arrangement n° 07.0201/2015/704456/SER/ENV.A1, and n° 070201/2018/790087/AA/ENV.B.1 between DG ENV and the Joint Research Centre.
Footnotes
Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111904.
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