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Working with the life cycle perspective is of strategic importance for more and more organizations and the Swedish Life Cycle Center, hosted by Chalmers University of Technology, is a unique platform for collaboration. The…

The year of 2019 has almost come to an end and we are happy to say that is has been a year filled with new collaborations and inspiring network activites. The Swedish Life Cycle Centers…

During 2021 Swedish Life Cycle Center opened up for small and medium sized companies to take a more active part in the Center’s activities since there has been a raise in interest for the life…

Annual Report 2021 The life cycle perspective is being integrated in all levels in the society, from customer demands to new business models and in legislations. The need…

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…

The Summary Report for Stage 8 is published and summarizes three successful years within the center. I gives an overview of Swedish Life Cycle Center, and our impact and activities towards our vision Credible and applied…

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…

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…

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…

On 3-4 of October the first Nordic climate forum for Construction took place in Malmö gathering representatives from authorities, industry and academia within the buildings and construction sector. The main question for the conference was to begin…

This year a total of 21 students from seven different universities across Scandinavia participated in the PhD-course Advances in Life Cycle Assessment (5 hp).The course is a collaboration between the partner universities in the Swedish Life Cycle…

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…

Since 2016, the center has a close collaboration with nine 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…

The board welcomes new partners for the common vision credible and applied life cycle thinking globally! On February 24, Swedish Life Cycle Center’s board met to decide on collaboration opportunities for SMEs and discussed the Swedish…

After twelve years at the Swedish Life Cycle Center, Sara Palander, will leave her position as a Director of the Center. Sara has during her leadership built and managed the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s operations…

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…

In September 2018 a new project started, led by Michael Martin at IVL, aiming to develop more sustainable food consumption through procurement with a life cycle perspective. The overall aim of this project is to…

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 year is coming to an end and so is the current stage of the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s operations (stage 9). The Technical secretariat together with all partners are now planning for a new…

​The Swedish Life Cycle Center launches four short films on life cycle thinking. The films give insight into the different uses of the life cycle perspective and life cycle assessment in partner organisations, and how…

We are proud to announce that Swedish Life Cycle Center has received funding for a new project from the Swedish Energy Agency, in support of an innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective between 2020…

Anne-Marie Tillman, since year 2000 professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers, is one of the founders of Centre for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems (CPM); the predecessor to…

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…

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…

25 years of collaboration within the life cycle field The Swedish Life Cycle Center has since 1996 brought together Swedish life cycle competence and front-running organizations. It has been instrumental in developing and adopting life…

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…

On 27–28 October 2021, Swedish Life Cycle Center arranged a two-days course in Applied Life Cycle Thinking. The course was given online for the second time and for the first time it was given in…

We would like to welcome AB Electrolux as new partner in Swedish Life Cycle Center. This partnership will be strengthening our work towards the center vision “Credible and applied life cycle thinking globally”. We are…

On Thursday 24 November 2022, the Swedish Life Cycle Center organized its first non-digital network conference after the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference was titled “Life Cycle Thinking in Policy and Legislation” and brought together over…

News from the Scientific director Greg Peters Its time for my last Scientific Directions update for 2022 and as an expat Aussie my thoughts turn to migratory scientific behaviours during this dark Scandinavian season.  Here…

We are very pleased to announce that Gregory Peters started his position as a Scientific director at the Swedish Life Cycle Center on September 1, 2021. Gregory, who is a professor in Environmental Systems…

To evaluate our operating period, the Swedish Life Cycle Center has conducted a self-assessment report. If you are interested in knowing more about the Center’s development and how we have worked to meet…

We would like to welcome Polestar as new partner in Swedish Life Cycle Center. This partnership will be strengthening our work towards the center vision “Credible and applied life cycle thinking globally”. We are looking…

Welcome to an autumn full of activities! The interest in Swedish Life Cycle Center is increasing and 19 participants took part in the open information meeting about the Center that was held on…

Several representatives from Swedish Life Cycle Center’s partner organizations attended the 8th International Conference on Social Life Cycle Assessment in Aachen, Germany, September 5-8. About 60 presentations were held and about 160 delegates,…

We would like to welcome Höganäs as new partner in Swedish Life Cycle Center. This partnership will be strengthening our work towards the center vision “Credible and applied life cycle thinking globally”. We are looking…

The project “Impacts on producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA” (ICON) started in June 2020 with the aim of increased understanding of the multitude of LCA frameworks used for fuels and the consequences…

Participants from the project Monetarisation were invited to the Swedish Energy Agency in Eskilstuna on March 11 to give a presentation of preliminary results of the project. Lina Isacs and Göran Finnveden from KTH, Linnea…

LCIC 2018 is a conference arranged by FSCLI with the aim to combine latest research with practical solutions, innovative approaches and concrete ways on how to implement sustainability most effectively and efficiently into today’s world.

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…

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…

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…

Gothenburg center for sustainable development has recently launched a podcast where, among others, researchers active in Swedish Life Cycle Center play the lead roles. In the podcast called Målmedvetenskap, researchers from Chalmers University of Technology…

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 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…

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…

On September 24-26 the annual SETAC LCA Case study symposium took place in Vienna, Austria. This time the theme was “The role of LCA in shaping the future – Food, Fiber, Feed, Fertilizer, Fuel and…

Together with Swedish Life Cycle Center’s academic partners, Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal institute of Technology and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences a PhD course “Advances in life cycle assessment” will…