Newsletter 1 : 2023, Swedish Life Cycle Center & Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective. |
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Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center and Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective.
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We are approaching Spring and we are looking back at an eventful start to 2023. We have said thank you and goodbye to Sara Palander the Center’s Director for the past 12 years and we are welcoming Maria Rydberg, former project manager at the Center, as the new Director. In cooperation with all partner organizations, we have prepared a large application to Vinnova to get funding for a Competence Center within life cycle action for climate neutrality and circularity. And for the first time since Covid we have been able to give our two-day course in applied life cycle thinking as a physical course, which was greatly appreciated by both course participants and course leaders. Looking even further back, we have also said goodbye to 2022 in our Annual Report and celebrated a growing network, several projects and a bunch of fantastic events, both digital and physical.
Looking ahead, we recently received very encouraging news when our application to host the 26th SETAC LCA Symposium in Gothenburg in October 2024 was approved. Read more about it and other ongoing and upcoming projects and activities below.
Sincerely,
Anna and Maria, Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Centre |
Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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SETAC 2024 As Prof. Greg Peters, scientific director, previously announced in his Scientific Directions, Swedish Life Cycle Center will be arranging the 26th SETAC LCA symposium in October 2023. Since it started as a small case study symposium back in 1993, this event has become one of the most important general scientific conferences focused on LCA methods and applications and has played an important part in the development of LCA. The theme for the conference will be : “Making LCA meaningful: good data, better models, sustainable decisions”. It will take place in Gothenburg, at Chalmers University of Technology, on 21-23 October 2024 and we are looking forward to inviting you all to a great conference. More information will come during spring but until then, save the date!
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Life Cycle Talks available on YouTube
During the year, Swedish Life Cycle Center has arranged four Life Cycle
Talks; How green is your business? With Henrikke Baumann; How can we
reach a sustainable consumption? With Göran Finnveden; How can social
life cycle assessment address social sustainability? With Mathias
Lindkvist; How to assess the environmental performance of emerging
technology? With Matty Janssen. View all talks on our YouTube channel.
| Finalized projectThe project Modelling of electricity in Product Environmental Footprints investigated the need for revised texts regarding the modelling of electricity production in the EU Ecodesign Regulation for photovoltaics and in the general PEF rules. | | | | Applied life cycle thinkingFor the first time since before Covid the popular two-day course Applied Life Cycle Thinking was held physically, at Chalmers. The course was fully booked with 16 participants from industry, government agencies and research institutes. The course leaders Karin Sanne (from IVL) and Kristian Jelse (from Greendesk) combined both lecturers with many group exercises. During the day the course participants met the guest speakers Sara Heimersson from Essity and Sofiia Miliutenko Martin from the Swedish Transport Administration who gave one guest lecture each on how life cycle thinking is applied in their organization. The course was highly appreciated by the course participants and has received a 9 of 10 in the course evaluation. If you would like to attend the next course, which will be given during fall 2023, please send an e-mail to lifecyclecenter@chalmers.se. | | | | Annual report for 2022The annual report for 2022 is now published at lifecyclecenter.se. You can read about new collaborations, new projects, new working groups and other new ventures during the year. We wish you a pleasant reading! | | | | Webinar series: Life cycle perspective in the public sectorThe whole webinar series about the life cycle perspective for the public sector is now available on YouTube. Five seminars with different themes starting with an introduction and then covering procurement, food, energy and construction. All seminars are in Swedish. | | | |
Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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Social Value Assessment (Social LCA) training is openAssessing Social Value over the value chain is becoming ever more important, think of the anti-slavery regulation in various countries, the EU Due Diligence legislation, the upcoming Corporate Social Reporting Directive (CSRD) etc. A new hands-on training will start this spring.
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“LEAK: EU to slap penalties on companies making false green claims””EU member states will be in charge of imposing “dissuasive” penalties on companies making unsubstantiated environmental claims about their products under a draft new EU law, seen by EURACTIV. The aim of the proposal, due to be tabled by the European Commission in the coming weeks, is to help consumers make better-informed choices about the products they buy.”
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New Global Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production 2023-2030A new strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production is approved by the Board of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production.
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SLC publication: Modelling electricity in environmental footprints
Authors: Ekvall, T., Lorentzon, K., Einarsson Lindvall, E. and Palander, S.
Publisher: Swedish Life Cycle Center
SLC publication: Annual report 2022
Authors: Palander S., Wikström A. and Rydberg M.
Publisher: Swedish Life Cycle Center
Journal article: What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?
Authors: Ugaya C., Bonacina de Araújo, J., Souza, A., Barros Telles do Carmo, B., A. de Oliveira S. and Gonçalves Maciel V.
Publisher: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Journal article: Environmental benefits of circular food systems: The case of upcycled protein recovered using genome edited potato
Authors: Bartek, L., Sundin, N., Strid, I., Andersson, M., Hansson, P-A. and Eriksson, M.
Publisher: Journal of Cleaner Production
Journal article: Impact of lowered vehicle weight of electric autonomous tractors in a systems perspective
Authors: Lagnelöv, O., Larsson, G., Larsolle, A. and Hansson, P-A.
Publisher: Smart Agricultural Technology
Journal article: A large share of climate impacts of beef and dairy can be attributed to ecosystem services other than food production
Authors: von Greyerz, K., Tidåker, P., Karlsson, J.O. and Röös, E.
Publisher: Journal of Environmental Management
Journal article: Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability
Authors: Zakrisson, L., S. Azzi, E. and Sundberg, C.
Publisher: The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
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Life Cycle Talks: Why do we need a life cycle perspective on negative emissions? With Cecilia Sundberg
Date: April 4, 2023
Time: 10.00-10.30 (CEST)
Place: Zoom
For whom: Public
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Phd course “Advances in life cycle assessment”
Date: April-May 2023
Place: Gothenburg and Uppsala |
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SETAC
Date: 21-23 October 2024
Place: Gothenburg
More information will come. |
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Other upcoming events2023-04-30 – 2023-05-04, SETAC Europe 33rd Annual meeting
2023-06-07, Scope 3 Data in LCA of organizations between Simplification, Overwhelming and Greenwashing, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA
2023-09-06 – 2023-09-08, LCM 2023
2023-09-21, LCA development. Did we forget about data? Challenges and needs, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA
2023-11-09, Electricity in buildings LCA. State of the art, challenges, and ways ahead, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA
2024-10-21-2024-10-23 26th SETAC LCA Symposium
| Collaboration opportunitiesSwedish Life Cycle Center plays an important role for all its actors within the Center to build networks, competence and influence future development. How the partnership is used is up to the partner. Partners value the direct contact to the network, research and high level discussions. Others are engaged in working groups that go in line with their organization’s agenda. And for some organizations, Swedish Life Cycle Center has been and is a key to their continuous work with life cycle related improvements and capacity building. The Center hosts a dialogue group with nine government agencies in Sweden, engages small and medium-sized companies through a letter of collaboration and enters into collaborative partnerships with other life cycle organizations at a global level. |
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Swedish Life Cycle Center is a Center of Excellence and collaboration platform for academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies. It fosters competence-building and knowledge exchange in advancing and applying the life cycle field. The newsletter is sent from the project Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective, with funding from the Swedish Energy Agency and partners in the Center.
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Swedish Life Cycle Center - Gothenburg, Sweden
lifecyclecenter@chalmers.se
www.lifecyclecenter.se
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