Space Sustainability Ledger

Thinking about the space industry in the context of sustainability tends to divide people. Some consider the industry’s vital contribution to measuring and monitoring climate change and think of space as intrinsically sustainable. Others look at the carbon impact of the rocket that carries a spacecraft into orbit and think the opposite.

As an organisation that has worked in the space industry for forty years, and one that is recognised for our sustainability credentials, we felt drawn to provide our own assessment. Our Europe-wide space business features quite a few mathematicians working alongside the scientists, consultants and engineers. So we decided to apply a system of debits and credits as a form of rational methodology, which we call the Space Sustainability Ledger. We use the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) model made famous by Elkington, which means we’ll look at People, Planet and Profit to give an holistic assessment.

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