The Hotspot Analysis Tool for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP-HAT) combines in a single framework national environmental and social data (i.e. territorial accounts) with trade information for the estimation of supply-wide environmental pressure and impact indicators (i.e. footprints).
For the estimation of footprint-type indicators, two approaches are applied: Environmentally extended multi-regional input-output (EE-MRIO) analysis and Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA).
Domestic data on pressures (e.g. material extraction) and impacts (e.g. deforestation) expressed in physical units (also called ‘satellite accounts’) are linked to monetary data on transactions among economic sectors and final consumers of different countries.
This approach allows tracing all the pressures and impacts occurring at the different stages of even very complex supply chains and allocating them to the country of final consumption, or sectoral production. This type of analysis is used to identify hotspots of unsustainable consumption and production.
The technical documentation explaining the applied methodologies can be found here. It also contains a section on changes made between different versions of SCP-HAT (“changelog”). As SCP-HAT is under constant development, please report any comment or feedback to fabienne.pierre [at] un.org (fabienne[dot]pierre[at]un[dot]org).
This tool provides three modules to analyse hotspot areas of sustainable consumption and production. For guidance how to use each module check out the auxiliary text boxes.

module 1
Country Profile
Provides the key information regarding the country’s environmental performance, in the context of the most relevant policy questions. For policy makers, NGOs and the general public.
Our society, its production and consumption systems, build upon the use of raw materials such as biomass, fossil fuels, and minerals. With increasing material extraction, related environmental and social impacts are getting close or already trespassing natural boundaries.
The sustainable development goals (SDG) 8 (Decent work and economic growth) and 12 (Responsible consumption and production) target the achievement of a sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources by 2030. Also the circular economy aims at increasing material efficiency by slowing, closing, and narrowing energy and material loops.

Not least by means of SDG 13 (Climate action) the United Nations warn that today every country on every continent is affected by climate change and that as a result national economies are disrupted, while at the same time being an enormous threat to development.
One of the major drivers of climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities, continues to rise and is now at its highest level in history. Countries report their national emissions to the IPCC and, according to the Paris Agreement, are requested to prepare and communicate their National Determined Contribution (for climate actions).

Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk of our time and fundamentally altering our climate, with profound impacts on the health of the planet. Air pollution comes from many sources – from cook stoves and kerosene lamps to coal-fired power plants, vehicle emissions, industrial furnaces, wildfires, and sand and dust storms.
Air pollution is a crosscutting topic related to a number of SDGs, like Goal 3 (Good health and well-being) and Goal 11 (Sustainable cities and communities). Tackling air pollution via, for instance, setting emission targets and applying technical emission standards can bring significant benefits for economies, human health, and the climate.
Land is used in multiple ways by societies, such as for agricultural production, forestry, urban and industrial areas, recreation, etc. However, land sealing and intensive agriculture are limiting the capacity of land areas to function as part of the ecosystem.
SDG 15 (Life on land) sets its focus mainly on the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems and sustainable land and forest management. This implies reducing the demand for land for production to decrease pressure on and competition about available land.

Module 2
Policy action based on
SCP INDICATORS FOR HOTSPOT ANALYSIS
In this section a wide range of SCP indicators are provided to analyse hotspots of unsustainable consumption and production at country and sector levels. Results help to identify areas where political action is needed.

MODULE TO Use your own data
In this section, technical experts such as statisticians can insert their national data on domestic raw material extraction and greenhouse gas emissions produced and substitute the default data. In Module 3, users can insert their own data retrieved from national sources and substitute the model’s default data. Applying the new data will alter the results, depending on the extent to which the new data differs from the original data.
Data can be inserted for the two dimensions “raw material extraction” and “GHG emissions” in aggregated format. To do so, choose a country, the environmental category and the time frame and click directly into the cells of the appearing table. At the end click “apply” and explore the different types of analysis below. Support how to compile the data is provided via pop-up windows. For more detailed information on technical standards, refer to the official standards on Material Flow Accounting (MFA) and GHG emission accounting.