Newsletter 2 : 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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Summer vacations are approaching, and Swedish Life Cycle Center wishes you all a joyful summer!
It has been an intense semester with a lot of activities and a lot of learnings, networking and new ideas for projects and working groups.
The long-awaited working group on biodiversity ran during the semester giving insights regarding ongoing activities on addressing biodiversity pressures from agriculture, forestry, and marine activities. It has also been a forum for initiating new collaborations within the topic. The project Environmental footprint in Swedish Industry – increased understanding and implementation started two case studies and arranged meetings in the Expert group for Environmental footprint. Results from that project will be presented during autumn. The Life Cycle Talks series presented Cecilia Sundberg who gave an excellent talk on why we need a life cycle perspective on negative emissions. If you missed it or other previous talks, they can be found on our YouTube channel.
During the first six months of the year, we have initiated new collaborations with the national authorities Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Vinnova and Geological Survey of Sweden and with the SMEs Dalemarken and ZeBeyond. We are looking forward to good collaborations with these organizations moving forward.
Don't forget that you are welcome to provide us with news and publications for future newsletters! Now we look forward to a few weeks with a different focus, swimming in the sea, walking in the forest or spending time in the shade and reading a book. In any case, we are refueling our batteries and getting ready for the fall semester!
Sincerely,
Anna and Maria, Technical Secretariat, Swedish Life Cycle Centre |
Latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center
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Case studies to test circular footprint formula and modeling of biogenic carbon The project “Environmental footprint in Swedish Industry - increased understanding and implementation” has now defined two case studies that will test part of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method to better understand what effects an implementation can have in the industry. One case study will test the circular footprint formula and the other how to model the impact on climate change with focus on biogenic carbon. | PhD course increases students understanding of LCADuring April and May, the PhD-course Advances in Life Cycle Assessment (5 credits) was held. A total of 30 students participated. New for this year was the opportunity for partner organizations in the Swedish Life Cycle Center to participate. And we are very pleased that five life cycle professionals took this as a cross-listed course alongside the PhD students. | | | |
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Cycle Talks with Alexander Hollberg
In August, we invite you to our next Life Cycle Talks. Alexander Hollberg, Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology will talk about using LCA for optimization in early design phases of buildings and show us different examples of application. | | | | Board member Babak Kianian represented at an automotive conferenceThe importance of collaboration across the automotive industry supply chain has been emphasized at the European Automotive Decarbonization and Sustainability Summit 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany. To achieve sustainability goals, every actor must gear up and work together. Don't miss out on our Board member and Höganäs LCA Specialist, Babak Kianan's reflections and the main takeaways from the conference.
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Latest news from partners & the life cycle community
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Green ClaimsIn March EU proposed a new law on green claims, taking action to address greenwashing, and protect consumers and the environment. The proposal concerns voluntary, explicit environmental claims made by traders to consumers. The proposed directive also introduces penalties against greenwashing and tighter rules for the approval of new ecolabels.
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Call for papers for a Special Issue on Social LCANews post from Life Cycle Initiative: “The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is inviting researchers and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts on Social LCA. The main goal of the special issue is to draw the current developments and implementations of the UNEP 2020 Guidelines and UNEP 2021 methodological sheets. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2023.”
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FSLCI launches Directory on Universities teaching Life Cycle Assessment
FSLCI has launched a Directory of Universities that teach Life Cycle Courses along with the Study Programs in which life cycle content is being taught. The Directory is meant to provide interested prospective students with an overview, where in the world life cycle knowledge is being taught. The directory is based on a global survey on Life Cycle Teaching conducted in 2022 and additional research.
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Report - Rules for the calculation of the Carbon Footprint of Electric Vehicle Batteries
Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service has published a draft report: Rules for the calculation of the Carbon Footprint of Electric Vehicle Batteries (CFB- EV). The report is to be used as input to the delegated act on carbon footprint for the batteries regulation.
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Journal article: Mapping and testing circular economy product-level indicators: A critical review
Authors: Jerome, A., Helander, H., Ljunggren, M., Janssen, M.
Publisher: Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Journal article: Sustainability assessment of surplus food donation: A transfer system generating environmental, economic, and social values
Authors: Sundin N., Bartek, L., Persson Osowski C., Stird I., Eriksson, M.
Publisher: Sustainable Production and Consumption
Journal article: Factors contributing to the relevance and continuity of life cycle assessment networks.
Authors: Suikkanen, J., Horn, S., Judl, J. et al.
Publisher: The Internationel Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2023)
Journal article: A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse
Authors: André, H., Björklund, A.
Publisher: Journal of Industrial Ecology
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
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Life Cycle Talks: LCA for optimization in early design phases of buildings with Alexander Hollberg
Date: August 29, 2023 Time: 10.00-10.30 (CEST) Place: Online with Zoom |
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Two days course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking
Date: 24-25 October, 2023 Time: 09.00-16.00 (CEST) Place: Chalmers, Gothenburg |
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Webinar – Environmental footprint in Swedish Industry
Date: 26 October, 2023 Time: 13:00-15:00 (CEST)
Place:
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SETAC 26th LCA symposium, Gothenburg 2024
Date: 21-23 October 2024 Place:
Chalmers, Gothenburg |
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Other upcoming events
2023-07-19 – 2023-07-20, The 11th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment, Twin Towns, Australia 2023-07-24 – 2023-07-28, International Conference of Life Cycle Assessment in Latin America (CILCA) 2023, Viña del Mar, Chile and online 2023-09-01 – 2023-09-04 Life Cycle Summer School arranged by FSLCI and CD2E, Loos-en-Gohelle, France 2023-09-04 – 2023-09-06, World Resources Forum 2023 ‘Rethinking Value – Resources for Planetary Wellbeing’, Geneva, Switzerland and online 2023-09-06 – 2023-09-08, The 11th International Conference On Life Cycle Management, Lille, France and online 2023-09-21, LCA development. Did we forget about data? Challenges and needs, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA 2023-09-26 – 2023-09-28 ACLCA 2023 Conference, Burlington, Vermont, USA
2023-11-09, Electricity in buildings LCA. State of the art, challenges, and ways ahead, Arranged by Discussion Forum on LCA
2024-09-08 – 2024-09-12, 14th LCA Food International Conference, Barcelona, Spain
2024-10-21-2024-10-23 26th SETAC LCA Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden
| 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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