Sustainable development has become the cornerstone of environmental policy worldwide and a leading principle for innovative industrial processes. The philosophy lies in the progress in balance with nature that ensures the existing productive systems' survival through a new design paradigm shift. Even in the industrial framework, the sustainability concept should always drive technological innovation. The blended Life Cycle (LCA) and Risk assessment (RA) can accomplish this demanding goal to highlight the process's potential health and environmental impacts. LCA is the process that analyses and assesses the environmental impact of a material, product, or service throughout its entire life cycle. RA instead assesses imposed risks by inherent hazards of systems and substances both qualitatively or quantitatively. Different approaches typically drive LCA and RA, respectively a deterministic and a stochastic approach. This feature usually causes an unconnected use of LCA and RA quantifying the potential impact of products and processes and thus determines controversial decisions concerning a balance between environmental impacts and operational risks.

The new paradigm suggests a unified blended LCA - RA approach with preliminary hazard identification, initially applied to an innovative Acid Gas to Syngas (AG2S™) process for carbon dioxide emission reduction and on-site reuse, avoiding costly and hazardous waste transportation steps.

可持续发展已成为全球环境政策的基石和创新工业流程的主要原则。哲学在于与自然平衡的进步，通过新的设计范式转变确保现有生产系统的生存。即使在工业框架中，可持续发展理念也应始终推动技术创新。混合生命周期 (LCA) 和风险评估 (RA) 可以实现这一苛刻的目标，以突出过程的潜在健康和环境影响。LCA 是分析和评估材料、产品或服务在其整个生命周期中对环境影响的过程。相反，RA 定性或定量地评估由系统和物质的固有危害所施加的风险。不同的方法通常分别驱动 LCA 和 RA，分别是确定性方法和随机方法。此功能通常会导致 LCA 和 RA 的不相关使用，量化产品和过程的潜在影响，从而确定有关环境影响和运营风险之间平衡的有争议的决策。

新范式建议采用统一的混合 LCA - RA 方法和初步危险识别，最初应用于创新的酸性气体合成气 (AG2S™) 工艺，以减少二氧化碳排放和现场再利用，避免昂贵和危险的废物运输步骤。