Hesham Saad Al-Sherbiny: Ecological costs between (Measurement and consideration)

Ecological costs are costs that should be made to reduce the effects of human-induced environmental pollution and control the depletion of our world’s natural resources to a level consistent with the carrying capacity of the planet.

It can also be defined as the environmental burden resulting from the manufacture of a product and the need to work to reduce or prevent this burden.

So that the question becomes … First, how to measure those burdens and second, how to minimize … Who are those environmental burdens?

As climate changes and the negative environmental effects resulting from these changes, indicate the importance of working to measure these environmental burdens and work to reduce them and achieve access to them completely.

The method of calculating ecological costs was founded on the calculation of the sum of marginal preventive costs of toxic emissions related to human health only… But… All creatures and human partners in life on planet Earth must be taken into account.

As well as ecosystems and emissions that cause global warming and resource depletion (minerals, rare earths, fossil fuels, water, and land use;).

Ecological costs can also be defined as the marginal preventive costs necessary to achieve not exceeding the acceptable level and exceeding the level of negative impact, for example.

The level of non-impact of CO2 emissions is the level at which the emissions and natural absorption of the earth are in equilibrium again at a maximum temperature rise of 2 ° C.

It can be said that ecological costs are the costs of non-compliance with environmental specifications and limits specified in environmental laws issued by governments and international organizations specialized in the same field.

Here it can be said that the external costs of products must be added to the economic costs (operating cost) to achieve a fair comparison in measuring the performance of products between … Low-price, environmentally polluting products… and a high-priced product that does not produce any polluting environmental burden …

Opinion leaders in healthcare are increasingly calling for the importance and speed of finding value-based calculation methods for calculating healthcare costs that “take into account the public health impacts of pollution from industrial activities both up and down the supply chain … Integrating the environmental performance of the product in… Decision making and decision-making …

To buy the product or not. This means that it is important to apply the use of ecological costs (within the calculation of external costs) to compare the sustainability of different product types.

meaning… The importance of expressing ecological costs … That is, “the calculation of the total cost burden with the environmental burden of emissions and the use of natural resources during the full life cycle of the product … (Manufacture, production, use and destruction…) That is, from the cradle to the grave” .

As a monetary value taken into account when calculating the external cost of the product, as the traditional production cost is not an indicator of the actual costs incurred for the production and use of the product, but must change in the calculation of the total cost of production taking into account external costs, including ecological cost, in order to apply a unified method to determine and compare the environmental impact on the basis of assessing the full life cycle of the product…