Environmental Ranking of European Industrial Facilities by Toxicity and Global Warming Potentials - data file

This file contains supplementary information of a research article. Cite: Erhart, S., Erhart, K. Environmental ranking of European industrial facilities by toxicity and global warming potentials. Sci Rep 13, 1772 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25750-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25750-w#citeas ABSTRACT We present a methodology to develop the integrated toxicity and climate change risk assessment of Europe based facilities, industries and regions. There is an increasingly important need for large scale sustainability measurement solutions for company reporting with high granularity. In this paper we measure key aspects of Sustainable Development Goals in terms of human, cancer and non-cancer toxicity, ecotoxicity together with global warming impact potentials from point source pollutant releases of more than 10,000 companies and their 33,000 facilities in Europe from 2001 to 2017, by using the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register. For our assessment, we deploy a scientific consensus model, USEtox for characterizing human and ecotoxicological impacts of chemicals and the global warming potential values from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We discuss water and air emissions of dozens of pollutants in urban, rural, coastal and inland areas. Companies in the electricity production sector are estimated to have the largest human toxicity impact potential (46% of total) and the largest global warming impact potential (50%), while companies in the sewerage sector have the largest ecotoxicity impact potential (50%). In the overall economy, the correlation between facilities’ global warming and toxicity impact potentials is positive, however, not very strong. Therefore, we argue that carbon footprint of industrial organizations can be only used as a climate change risk indicator, but not as an overall environmental performance indicator. We confirm impact potentials of major pollutants in previous research papers (Hg accounting for 76% of the total human toxicity and Zn accounting for 68% of total ecotoxicity), although we draw the attention to the limitations of USEtox in case of metals. From 2001 to 2017 total human toxicity dropped by 28%. Finally, we show that the European pollutant release monitoring data quality could be further improved, as only three quarters of the toxic releases are measured in the Member States of the European Union. DISCLAIMER The authors takes no responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy, completeness or quality of the information provided. The authors are in no event liable for damages of any kind incurred or suffered as a result of the use or non-use of the information presented or the use of defective or incomplete information . The contents are subject to confirmation and not binding. The author expressly reserves the right to alter, amend , whole and in part, without prior notice or to discontinue publication for a period of time or even completely.本文件为某学术论文的补充信息材料。 引用格式：Erhart S、Erhart K. 基于毒性与全球增温潜势的欧洲工业设施环境排名[J]. 科学报告, 2023, 13:1772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25750-w 原文链接：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-25750-w#citeas ## 摘要 本研究提出一套用于评估欧洲地区设施、产业及区域的综合毒性与气候变化风险的方法框架。当前，企业可持续性报告领域对高细粒度的大规模可持续性量化解决方案的需求日益迫切。本研究依托《欧洲污染物排放与转移登记册》（European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register），针对2001至2017年间欧洲1万余家企业及其3.3万处设施的点源污染物排放数据，从人类健康毒性（含致癌与非致癌毒性）、生态毒性以及全球增温影响潜势四个维度，量化评估可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals）的关键指标。本次评估采用科学界共识模型USEtox以表征化学品对人类健康及生态的毒性影响，并采用政府间气候变化专门委员会（Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change）发布的全球增温潜势数值。本研究分析了城市、乡村、沿海及内陆区域内数十种污染物的水、气排放情况。经估算，电力生产行业的企业对人类健康毒性影响潜势占总潜势的46%，为各行业之首；同时其全球增温影响潜势占总潜势的50%，同样位居第一。而污水处理行业的企业生态毒性影响潜势占比达50%，位列行业第一。在整体经济层面，工业设施的全球增温影响潜势与毒性影响潜势呈正相关，但相关性较弱。据此，本研究认为工业机构的碳足迹仅可作为气候变化风险的表征指标，而非整体环境绩效的衡量标准。本研究验证了前人研究中提及的主要污染物影响潜势（汞占人类健康毒性总潜势的76%，锌占生态毒性总潜势的68%），同时提请关注USEtox模型在针对金属污染物时存在的局限性。2001至2017年间，人类健康毒性总潜势下降了28%。最后，本研究发现欧洲污染物排放监测数据质量仍有提升空间：欧盟成员国仅能覆盖四分之三的有毒污染物排放监测工作。 ## 免责声明 作者不对本文件所提供信息的时效性、准确性、完整性及质量承担责任。无论因使用或未使用本文件所载信息，抑或使用存在缺陷或不完整的信息而导致或遭受的任何形式的损害，作者均不承担责任。本文件所载内容仅供参考，不具有约束力。作者明确保留无需事先通知，即可对本文件的全部或部分内容进行修改、修订，或暂时、永久终止发布的权利。