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On Thursday November 26, 2020, Swedish Life Cycle Center organized its first online Network conference. The aim of the conference was to highlight the Swedish research front within LCA. Over 100 people joined the conference…

Conference reflections and report from 9th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM 2019) The 9th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM 2019) took place between 1rd– 4thSeptember 2019 in city of Poznan, Poland.

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,…

Svenskarna på SLCA 2016 i Pescara: Birgit Brunklaus, RISE; Anna Furberg, Henrikke Baumann, Sverker Molander och Rickard Arvidsson, Chalmers; Diego Penaloza, RISE. På bilden saknas Elisabeth Ekener från KTH och Sebastian Welling från IVL. –…

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…

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…

Seminariet anordnas av Energimyndigheten som en del av den svenska verksamheten inom IEA, IETS (Industrial Energy-Related Technologies and Systems) i samverkan med Swedish Life Cycle Center och Svensk plattform för livscykelperspektivet.  Seminariet kommer att handla om ekonomisk…

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…

Researchers from Chalmers now find that studded tires harvest more lives than they save. A recent study that takes a holistic approach to the impact on human health from tire studs also shows that…

​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…

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…

När EU ställer om och driver på utvecklingen av miljöavtryck är syftet att genom en kombination av marknadstryck och styrmedel förbättra miljöprestandan för produkter och tjänster på den europeiska marknaden. Hur kommer svenska företag att…

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…

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…

News from the Scientific Director Greg Peters This is the first of several brief scientific news updates which I will write as the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Scientific Director, the aim of which is…

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…

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…

A new standard (SS 14007:2019) aiming to guide organizations in determing and valuating their environment-related costs and profits for e.g. an investment or product development, has recently been published as a Swedish standard by SIS…

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…

​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…

In June, the 7th international conference on Social Life Cycle Assessment was successfully held and organized by Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Swedish Life Cycle Center. Due…

News from the Scientific director Greg Peters Here is the latest Update from the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Scientific Director. If you would like to draw attention to some progress which researchers your…

  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…

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…

The leadership of ISO/TC 207/Subcommittee 1 (Environmental management systems) has sent its congratulations to the experts and the secretariat of WG 7 (Monetary valuation of environmental impacts) for the standardization work on Monetary valuation of…

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…

  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…

Environmental damage costs society enormous amounts of money – and often leaves future generations to foot the bill. Now, a new tool is under development by Chalmers students, to help companies valuate and manage the…

In the project “Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics”, we investigated the risk that Product Environmental Footprint of plastics give incentives to send plastic waste to incineration instead of recycling even when recycling…

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…

On Tuesday, 28th of May, the second general meeting of the project Modeling of Recycling was held. The project is progressing well with positive expectation for the coming consensus process, but first the project group…

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…

The final report from the project, Modeling of recycling, has now been released. The Swedish Life Cycle Center, and partners, aimed to find the most correct method for how to model recycling in life cycle…

A new book, written by Bengt Steen, about monetary valuation of environmental impacts has recently been published by CRC Press. The book aims to improve the understanding of sustainable development of production and consumption and…

In October the project “Social life cycle assessment – experiences from Swedish users” started where Mathias Lindqvist at Chalmers University of Technology are doing an interview study, interviewing a selection of Swedish…

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,…

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…

One of the issues that has been hard to cope with in LCA is the problem of odorous emissions. Though odour is one of the major concerns for many industries working with putrescible organic matter…

Swedish Life Cycle Center has, through the development of the EPS-method and a number of projects, been discussing monetarization for several years. The center has initiated and contributed to the development of the new ISO standard…

Helene Lindström, who started in the middle of the spring semester, will manage and coordinate the communication work at the Swedish Life Cycle Center. With a broad experience from seven years as a communication…