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Sustainable potential

The share of technical potential remaining after stated environmental and social safeguards.

Definition

The share of technical potential remaining after stated environmental and social safeguards. Follow the related lesson to see how this term changes a system boundary or decision.

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Technical → sustainable → economic → deployable potential

A four-filter ladder for preventing theoretical possibility from being reported as real-world supply or capacity.

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REFERENCES

References & further reading

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2026). Sustainable and circular bioeconomy: glossary and key terms.Open source ↗