Life cycle competences to drive life cycle innovations
Session 11: Fostering Regional Sustainable Development through Life Cycle Approaches
The Swedish Life Cycle Center brings together Swedish life cycle competence and front-running companies. It has been instrumental in developing and adopting life cycle approaches in the Swedish society, whilst making important contributions to international...
Life Cycle Models as digital solution to assess sustainability and support industrial decision-making processes – Example of innovative biobased materials
Session 06: Innovative Ways to Assess Sustainability with Life Cycle Approaches
Sustainability has become an essential criterion in today's corporate decision-making processes. In addition, the EU Green Deal, for example, has set important framework conditions. This additionally increases the complexity of decision-making processes and thus the...
Life cycle thinking considerations in EU Taxonomy for a sustainable finance
Session 01: Supporting the journey towards net zero and beyond with Life Cycle Approaches (1)
By adopting the Paris Agreement1 on climate change and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, governments from around the world chose a more sustainable path for...
Linking the UN Sustainable Development Goals to product-level impact information
Session 17: Innovative and Sustainable Business Models
While the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prove to be a relevant compass for governments, they are less relevant for businesses. So far, concrete methodologies that link product-level impact with the SDGs have been lacking....
Lite NEST – A sustainability decision support tool for Canadian egg farmers
Session 08: Sustainable Innovation in the Food Sector (2)
Eggs are an increasingly popular food choice worldwide, including in Canada. Despite growing considerably over the past half century, the modern Canadian egg industry achieves considerably higher productivity, resource efficiency and animal health outcomes relative...
Management implications of readjusting product lifecycles towards a circular economy during product planning and development
Session 15: Applying Systems Thinking to guide the transition towards a regenerative Circular Economy (1)
In private sector organizations the circular economy concept is increasingly seen as a way to achieve sustainable development goals. Accordingly, private sector organizations need to plan the integration of value-retention strategies during the design of...
Measuring the Circular economy of multi-layers plastic packaging
Session 16: Applying Systems Thinking to guide the transition towards a regenerative Circular Economy (2)
‘Zero waste program for Europe’ (European Commission, 2014) and ‘Closing the loop action plan for the Circular Economy’ (EC (European Commission), 2015) are two recent strategies in the European Union (EU) about transition towards a...
Minimising rebound effects of lifetime extension: Sustainable business models for mobile, internet-enabled devices
Session 17: Innovative and Sustainable Business Models
The environmental impact of laptops, tablets and smartphones summarised as mobile internet-enabled devices (MIEDs) is highly relevant and increasing. The global market penetration of smartphones reached about 50 % in 2021 with 3.6 billion reported...
Moving away from the liquid: Sustainability implications of all-solid-state battery technology
Session 10: Life Cycle Innovation in the Transport and Mobility Sector (2)
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been the choice of battery technology employed in most electric vehicles (EVs) available today. However, recent studies have pointed out that the LIB technology slowly approaches its practical and theoretical specific...
Operationalizing the Geopolitical Supply Risk Potential Indicator – the recommended “outside-in” resource criticality indicator for LCA
Session 05: Implementing Sustainable Innovation through Digitalization
The GeoPolRisk method was introduced as a complement to environment LCA to address the resource accessibility concern from an “outside-in” perspective resulting in a midpoint and an endpoint indicator. The study presents the operationalization of...
Prospective life cycle assessment of road infrastructure in the context of circular economy: advances, challenges, and opportunities
Session 09: Life Cycle Innovation in the Transport and Mobility Sector (1)
Road infrastructure is an integral building block of our society by provisioning essential services (e.g., movement of resources and commuting) and stimulating the socio-economic development of local communities. The deterioration of road infrastructure is a...
Prospects of integrating ecosystem services into Life Cycle Assessment: application to a Mediterranean vineyard
Session 06: Innovative Ways to Assess Sustainability with Life Cycle Approaches
Life cycle assessment is a powerful tool to compare the environmental impacts of different systems along the stages of agriculture production. However, when it comes to representing the multifunctional aspects of agriculture, LCA has shown...
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