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  General Information on the Principles Dear all, the draft below has been developed by a number of FSLCI members and reviewed by participants of the communication’s workshop that took place on the 3rd of September in Bordeaux. We would like to invite all out members to work with us on further refining these principles. To edit the principles, please simply work on the text and comment below this entry what you changed. The system has a versioning system, so any changes will be kept and we can always go back to previous versions. We look forward to your feedback and insights!     Key Principles for Promoting Life Cycle Approaches The Global Life Cycle Community has developed and agreed to promote foundational principles that assist the development of quality life cycle information and its use for reliable decision support. Sustainable Products and Services Are Needed To Establish A Global Sustainable Society While there is an overall necessity to reduce the global use of natural resources and thus change consumption patterns altogether, the demand for goods and services will continue to rise for the foreseeable future. Hence enhancing the environmental sustainability [1] performance of goods and services, while also meeting […]

Goal and Scope The Charter is made of a set of requirements (indicated with a “shall”) that LCA Critical Reviewers (called “CR expert(s)” in the rest of the Charter), who claim to work “according to” the present Charter, bind themselves to apply. They include also recommendations for Commissioners if they want to enable their CR expert(s) to apply the requirements of this Charter. These requirements are set for fair and efficient CR practice. These requirements may partly overlap with contractual documents and applicable standards (indicated with a “S” in the title). No requirement of the present Charter is in contradiction with a requirement of an applicable standard.   Definitions This Charter is redacted for LCA experts who plan to involve themselves in a CR process. LCA experts, if you have a doubt about the definition of a term used in the present Charter, please refer to the definitions of ISO 14044 and ISO/TS 14071.   C1. Knowledge of the relevant (last versions of) standards S The expert having the role to provide the LCA expertise in a CR panel, or acting as a single CR expert, shall know and shall apply ISO 14040, ISO 14044 and ISO/TS 14071 requirements.   […]

See attached the article created for the conference proceeding in collaboration with the other panelist.