Newsletter 3 : 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 reflect on a remarkable autumn featuring two interesting Life Cycle Talks, participation at the LCM 2023 conference in Lille, France, an occasion of the two-day course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking and a well-attended webinar discussing the Environmental Footprint project in the Swedish industry, which aimed to enhance understanding and implementation. We have welcomed Luleå University of Technology as a new partner in Swedish Life Cycle Center and we are thrilled to introduce Yulia Liu as a new addition to the Technical Secretariat team. Yulia will be working alongside Anna and Maria, managing various projects and activities within the Center. A warm welcome to both Luleå Technical University and to Yulia! With just one year remaining until the SETAC Europe 26th LCA symposium takes place in Gothenburg, we've opened a call for session proposals. We are preparing for an exciting conference experience next autumn and eagerly anticipate your session proposals, due by January 23, 2024. More details on this can be found below. Sincerely,
Anna, Yulia and Maria
Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Center |
Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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Call for sessions for SETAC Europé 26th LCA symposium Join us at the forefront of sustainability and environmental science, as SETAC and Swedish Life Cycle Center jointly organize the 26th LCA Symposium. The call for session proposals is now open. If you have advanced knowledge of a specific topic relevant to LCA, then consider proposing a session due by January 23, 2024. Read more in the link below. There is also a possibility of joining us as a sponsor or exhibitor for this inspiring journey! For details contact Anna Wikström at anna.wikstrom@chalmers.se. | Yulia Liu joins the Center as new Project ManagerIn October, Yulia Liu joined the Swedish Life Cycle Center as a Project Manager. We are looking forward to working together with Yulia who is enriching the Technical Secretariat team with her LCA knowledge and industry experience. | | | | Luleå University of Technology joins the Swedish Life Cycle CenterLuleå University of Technology has recently become a partner in the Swedish Life Cycle Center. LTU is the fourth university that joins the Center and we look forward to having them onboard and warmly welcome them as our new partner! | | | | Life Cycle Talks with Serina AhlgrenIn December, we invite you to our next Life Cycle Talks. Serina Ahlgren, researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden will talk about a research project where the biodiversity impact of a large number of food items has been calculated. | | | | Course in Applied life cycle thinkingOn October 24-25 the popular course Applied Life Cycle Thinking was held at Chalmers University of Technology. 13 people from industry and research institutes attended the course which now was held for the nineth time. | | | | LCM 2023 Summary and HighlightsThe 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM) brought together a diverse and global community, with 950 participants from 44 countries. The Technical Secretariat has summarized key takeaways together with Center and partner contributions. | | | |
Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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Webinar - How to develop EF-compliant data setsOn November 20, the European Commission is organizing a webinar on how to develop EF-compliant datasets on supplier products. The webinar will outline the benefits of PEFs and PEFCRs and provide information to help companies better understand PEF (and OEF) from a policy perspective. Participants will then learn what EF-compliant data sets are, where to find them and further guidance, and what the user rights are. Click the button below to read more and register for the event.
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Survey on experience with tools for “chemical footprint”The Formas financed project Tox-redUSE invites companies to a survey about the experience of using tools for (eco)toxicology in LCA (“chemical footprint”). The goal of Tox-redUSE is to enable the creation of operational tools that empower industrial actors to monitor their chemical footprints. Take a few minutes and help the project reach this goal!
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Life Cycle Initiative call for interest for an implementing partner on life cycle assessment for Biogenic CarbonThe Life Cycle Initiative is seeking an Implementing Partner to support the Biogenic Carbon Project. The selected partner will work on the project´s objective to develop an internationally recognized recommendation through an expert-led multi-stakeholder process
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News from EU commission Carbon removals expert groupInformation about and documentation from meetings in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action Expert group on carbon removals is available in the link below. The group assists the Commission’s work on the voluntary certification of carbon removals.
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Please tag @Swedish Life Cycle Center when sharing publications and we will share in our community and network! Journal article: Life cycle assessment of textile fibre-to-fibre recycling by cellulose carbamate technology
Authors: Hammar, T., Peñaloza, D., Hanning, A.-C., Haatanen, N., & Pakkasmaa, J. (2023).
Publisher: Journal of Cleaner Production, 426, 139189. Journal article: Life cycle assessment of a two-seater all-electric aircraft.
Authors: Arvidsson, R., Nordelöf, A. & Brynolf, S.
Publisher: Int J Life Cycle Assess (2023). Journal article: Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries for Stationary Energy Storage
Authors: Wickerts, S., Arvidsson, R., Nordelöf, A., Svanström, M., Johansson, P.
Publisher: American Chemical Society Journal article: Evaluating source separation wastewater systems using traditional life cycle assessment and the planetary boundaries approach
Authors: de Morais Lima, P., Ferrer, G., Kjerstadius, H., Ryberg, M., Rae McConville, J.
Publisher: Journal of Cleaner Production Journal article:
"How to increase the uptake of circular public procurement? Lessons learned from local authorities in Sweden"
Authors: Hunka, A., Vanacore, E., Mellquist, A.-C. and Fuertes-Gine, L. (2023),
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Journal of Public Procurement, Vol. 23 No. 2, pp. 245-271. |
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Life Cycle Talks: Can we quantify the impact on biodiversity in LCA from food products? with Serina Ahlgren
Date: December 14, 2023
Time: 10.00-10.30 CET
Place: Online with Zoom
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SETAC 26th LCA symposium, Gothenburg 2024
Date: October 21-23, 2024
Place: Gothenburg
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Other upcoming events2023-11-09, Electricity in buildings LCA. State of the art, challenges, and ways ahead, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA
2024-05-05 – 2024-05-09 SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting, arranged by SETAC
2024-05-28 – 2024-05-31 9th International Conference of Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA 2024), hosted by GTACV-S
2024-07-03 – 2024-07-05, 4th Life Cycle Innovation Conference - LCIC 2024, Berlin, Germany
2024-09-08 – 2024-09-12 14th edition of the LCA Food international conference, Barcelona, Spain | 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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