Sustainable procurement & major events: life cycle assessment as a tool for consumer choices

Abstract

The list of what is necessary to improve quality of life – in all its forms – and guarantee the availability of resources essential to production in the present and the future is diverse. The questions are just as numerous as the diversity of landscapes, climates, cultures, and expectations for development, that exist in countries such as Brazil. In the spotlight are the population’s increasing access to consumption, the need to generate more energy, to expand the production infrastructure and to continue advancing in the search for a more just and equal society with improvements to basic services