Abstract
ABSTRACT Establishing sustainability policies and business strategies involves mapping environmental, economic, and social factors in an integrative way. In the academic literature, environmentally extended input-output tables have been employed to analyse the relationship between economic flows and their impacts on sustainability. These methodologies require advanced mathematical expertise and do not easily provide a graphical representation to facilitate their interpretation. To fill this gap, this paper develops a unique approach using Power Query that integrates economic, environmental, and employment data to create value chain maps. It also provides examples of the insights gained by applying the method to 12 European countries. The resulting 240 industrial value chain maps represent 94.41% of the industrial emissions in the surveyed countries. This novel and comprehensive methodology for mapping and characterising industrial sustainability in European industrial value chains (including Scope 3 emissions) provides valuable knowledge for researchers, business representatives, and policymakers to design effective sustainable strategies.
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