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Description
Sustainability has become a prioritized goal in the design, planning and implementation of future accelerators; approaches to improved sustainability include overall system design, optimisation of subsystems, and operational concepts. A direct quantification of the ecological footprint, is currently performed only sporadically, with Lifecycle Assessments (LCA) emerging as a more comprehensive approach.
Several large electron-positron linear colliders are currently being studied as potential future Higgs-factories, ILC in Japan and CLIC and a ILC-based Linear Collider Facility at CERN. These projects are closely collaborating on methods to reduce the power consumption of accelerator components and systems, and smart integration of future accelerator infrastructure with the surrounding site and society. In a recent, common study an LCA of the civil construction as well as the accelerator and detector components of both projects was conducted.
This contribution will present this and other current results and future activities.
