In recent years, natural capital in the daily life of all living species on our planet is gaining increasing importance, because it is a critical capital. The main implementation approach suggested to obtain environmental accounting, for sustainable production and consumption policy is the Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) with its operational tool: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). LCA is capable of calculating environmental indicators and accompanying companies in a more production sustainable (EU strategy 20:20). In the study, the LCA tool was applied to an Italian polyester fabric (Apulia Stretch company in Apulia region) to innovate and improve the sustainability of products and improve its competitiveness in international markets.

Senator of the Italian Republic (XVIII legislature), 13th Permanent Commission (Territory, environment, environmental goods). PhD in Economics and Management of Natural Resources, scholar of Nicholas Georgescu Roegen and member of the International Association of Ecological Economists (ISEE) and scientific association Rete Italiana LCA. She has been dealing with sustainability and systemic approach for many years. Her main research topics are: environmental accounting, Life Cycle Thinking, I/O analysis in physical units, circular economy and eco-innovation. Author of the Small-Size vanadium redox flow batteries: an environmental sustainability analysis via LCA, in the book Life Cycle Assessment of Energy Systems and Sustainable Energy Technologies, published by Springer. Her papers are published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, International journal of hydrogen energy, Land Use Policy.