Piloting Oiconomy Pricing: First experiences of producers applying full cost sustainability assessment of products
报告了三家全球价值链企业试点Oiconomy可持续性评估工具的结果，该工具通过计算产品的隐性预防成本（即生态社会成本单位）来衡量不可持续性，并探讨了企业应用经验及市场推广意义。
Abstract The Oiconomy Pricing approach provides an innovative way of measuring and communicating (un)sustainability of products. It expresses (un)sustainability in a virtual monetary unit, the ‘Eco Social Cost Unit’ (ESCU). As closely as possible, the ESCU score of a product equals the externalities, which can also be described as hidden preventative costs. In the context of product sustainability assessment, these are the costs that need to be spent to avoid any damage to the environment or society that the product causes during its entire lifecycle. This paper presents the result of a pilot project with three companies operating in global value chains, applying the Oiconomy Sustainability Assessment Tool. The project encouraged end‐producer companies and their value chain partners to calculate the hidden preventative costs and jointly implement sustainable solutions. This article presents the results of these calculations for the three cases, the experiences of the companies and the implications for the market introduction of the tool.