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Since 2016, the center has a close collaboration with seven Swedish government agencies. They meet on a regular basis to share experience and build common knowledge in the life cycle field. These authorities play important roles…

Sandvik produces special steel with circularity as a natural part of their business model. Bringing the waste material back into the production loop is beneficial both from an economic and an environmental point of view.

LCA data is used by organizations to measure, follow up and reduce environmental and social impact. The interest in life cycle assessment is increasing globally and so is the need for LCA data. Swedish Life…

Since 2016, the center has a close collaboration with seven Swedish government agencies. They meet on a regular basis to share experience and build common knowledge in the life cycle field. These authorities play important roles…

Vissa hävdar att elfordon inte är miljövänliga, andra menar att de är enda vägen framåt. En ny teknik kan gynna ett visst hållbarhetsmål – men stå i direkt konflikt med ett annat. I ett seminarium…

We are proud to present the first PhD-course in LCA developed within Swedish Life Cycle Center and Swedish platform for the life cycle perspective! The course is organized together with The Research School Sustainable…

Environmental damage costs society enormous amounts of money – and often leaves future generations to foot the bill. Now, a new ISO standard will help companies valuate and manage the impact of their environmental damage,…

The core of Swedish Life Cycle Center is networking. Networking, knowledge building and international reach within life cycle thinking. For professionals in the life cycle field the reoccurring network conference arranged by the center exclusively…

Take the chance to improve your knowledge in Applied Life cycle thinking and join our two-day course in Stockholm November 6-7 or Gothenburg October 10-11. This time the course will be given in English in…

Many companies and states agree upon the need to circulate material to a larger extent than today, in order to reach sustainable development goals. Products will have larger content of recycled material in the future…

“I have met frustrated colleagues in companies who explain the difficulty of making things happen.” Nowadays, the life cycle perspective is central in the ISO standard for Environmental Management (14001), and many companies face…

Since 2016, the center has a close collaboration with seven Swedish government agencies. They meet on a regular basis to share experience and build common knowledge in the life cycle field. These authorities play important roles…

Swedish life cycle center has a history of more than 20 years and has become a credible, well known platform for life cycle experts in Sweden. It was founded as CPM in 1996 as a…

During two days in November, industry, municipalities, government agencies, researchers and others met in Umeå to inspire, discuss and share experience on how to advance towards more sustainable consumption and lifestyles. Johan Widheden, Senior Sustainability…

Sweco is Europe’s leading consulting agency with combined knowledge in technology, environment and architecture. We plan and design the communities and cities of the future, and the results of our work are sustainable buildings, efficient…

What if products in your grocery store were labeled with environmental declarations? What if politicians from all around Europe took decisions based on a joint understanding about products’ and organizations’ environmental aspects? Those are just…

Today the PhD course “Advances in life cycle assessment” was launched and Swedish Life Cycle Center was there to get a glance. 25 PhD students from six universities and one research institute grabbed the popular…

This paper elaborates on the role of life cycle centers and networks. It shows that networks and centers on life cycle thinking serves many roles in boosting industrial application of life cycle thinking as well…

The UN Environment has recently launched the new Life Cycle Initiative (LCI) Strategy, 2017-2022. A strategy to scale up and more efficiently bring Life Cycle Thinking to the mindset of decision makers. Furthermore, LCI will…

The national agenda project “Life Cycle Assessment Data – a prerequisite for sustainable innovation” coordinated within Swedish Life Cycle Center is now available in swedish.  “Life Cycle Assessment Data – a prerequisite for sustainable…

Since 2016, the center has a close collaboration with seven Swedish government agencies. They meet on a regular basis to share experience and build common knowledge in the life cycle field. These authorities play important roles…

A formalized cooperation between government agencies and Swedish Life Cycle Center was set up during 2016, with regular meetings to share experience and build common knowledge. The aim of the group is to increase the…

The vehicle industry is undertaking a huge transformation. New requirements from customers and governments are pushing producers to meet the sustainable development goals in different ways. Producers of cars, trucks and agricultural machines are adjusting…

First, we want to thank the organizers of LCM 2017 in Luxembourg last week! Thanks to Enrico Benetto (chair of the conference), Kilian Gericke and Jan Bollen (co-chairs of the conference) as well as your…

From January 2018, we welcome the Swedish Consumer Agency (Konsumentverket) to collaborate with the Swedish Life Cycle Center within the life cycle field. Swedish Consumer Agency has joined the dialogue group for government agencies, which…

How can purchasers set requirements on suppliers with a life cycle perspective in mind? How can suppliers prepare for sustainability requirements from purchasers in public sector? Those were some of the questions that were initially…

The project Good examples – Inspiration to energy efficiency through the entire value chain aimed to develop knowledge about how Swedish organizations from different sectors of the society are using the life cycle perspective, to…

In a few weeks the first students of the PhD course “Advances in life cycle assessment” will enter the lecture hall in Gothenburg. The interest for the course, which will be given for the first…

n October 25-26 the concluding program conference for the Swedish Energy Agency and f3 collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems was held at SLU in Uppsala. More than 100 participants joined the conference,…

On October 6, Swedish life cycle experts in the vehicle field gathered to discuss and exchange knowledge from the industry and research area. The ambition was high, the atmosphere was creative and the air…

​Researchers and designers in cooperation. To the left: three fast fashion garments made of paper. To the right: a slow fashion garment used in various phases during 50 years. ​A shirt that can gain a…

  The workshop will provide opportunities for discussion, as well as information about monetary valuation of environmental impacts in the product development process. During the workshop, representatives from the research project Integration of environment and…

Scania is a global provider of transport solutions, including trucks and buses for heavy transport applications combined with an extensive product-related service offering. Scania offers vehicle financing, insurance and rental services to enable our customers…

“A company wishing to market its product as environmentally friendly in several Member State markets faces a confusing range of choices of methods and initiatives. Sometimes they have to use different ones for different markets.

  The Annual Report 2018 is published and summarizes an exciting year! The organizational move from Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development (GMV) to Technology Management and Economics (TME) at Chalmers has raised new opportunities, where closer…

On May 22, 2018, more than 30 people with an interest in the life cycle perspective and product and environmental issues gathered in Gothenburg for an overview of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) process in…

In January 2019 Croft et Al, published a review in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment with the title The availability of life-cycle studies in Sweden (January 2019, volume 24, issue 1, pages 6–11). The review focus on availability of quantitative information for non-specialists and concludes that:

On November 23 Swedish Life Cycle Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a national competence center. In this spirit we welcome your participation in an inspiring day of presentations and discussions with regard to…

Circularity and resource efficiency are the latest sustainability buzzwords. The lists recommending what are the best means to achieve circularity are plentiful, but Anne-Marie and her research team applied life cycle thinking to resource efficiency…

The life cycle perspective, understanding the environmental impacts of a product or service throughout the value chain, is gaining increased importance in business as well as in public sector and authorities. In this two-day course…

Increasingly, companies need to know what environmental damage they make in monetary terms. Among other things, for financial reporting and cost-benefit analyzes. A new standard for monetary valuation of environmental damage costs is now approaching…

Sandvik Materials Technology is since January 2018 a new partner in Swedish Life Cycle Center. Sandvik is a high-technology engineering group in tools and tooling systems for metal cutting, equipment, tools and services for the…

During the SETAC annual meeting in Helsinki in May the SETAC,  Peter James Joyce, Postdoctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was awarded the Europe LCA Young Scientist Award.  We would like to…

Life cycle information is used differently thru out the organization. The project “Adapted decision support for increased energy efficiency in value chains”, financed by the Swedish Energy Agency, has investigated how information can contribute for…

The Swedish Life Cycle Center newsletter has been sent out to our extended community. Would you like to take part of the latest news from Swedish Life Cycle Center & Swedish platform for the life…

Swedish Life Cycle Center besökte Visby och Almedalsveckan under några dagar och arrangerade under tisdagen seminariet ”Hur miljövänliga är elfordon? Med ett livscykelperspektiv får vi svar!”. Panelsamtalet ägde rum på Hållbarhetsarenan och arrangerades som en…

Jenny Lagergren, Project Manager at Swedish Life Cycle Center gives her reflections from the conference Hållbara livsstilar, November 14-15, 2018. “What is a sustainable lifestyle and what drives us to choose more environmental friendly…

On September 27 it was time for the 2nd General Assembly of Life Cycle Initiative, where Swedish Life Cycle Center is a member. The day focused on commitments and results from ongoing projects as well…