Search result (73 hits on "Methods")
Methods for environmental footprinting of products and services have been and are being developed all over the world. Two methods to measure environmental performance throughout the lifecycle, the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) and the Organisation…
Type Expert group
Time period 2014-01-01 - Ongoing
DANTES is an acronym for Demonstrate and Assess New Tools for Environmental Sustainability. The main purpose of the DANTES project was to collect, exchange and present information and experiences from using different tools for environmental sustainability.
Type Research project
Time period 2002-09-01 - 2005-08-31
Background The overall aim of the project is to provide companies and other actors with valuation factors for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as well as for energy and other natural resources, that can…
Type Research project
Time period 2013-05-01 - 2015-01-31
The purpose of this project was to develop methods for how large companies can work with energy efficiency that stretches across actors in the value chain.
Type Research project
Time period 2014-12-08 - 2015-06-30
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.
Webinar – Sustainable and Circular Public Procurement
Researchers from IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Michael Martin, Sven-Olof Ryding, Sofia Lingegård and Elvira Molin) will share results and knowledge from on-going projects on sustainable procurement of food…
Background There are today several methods and frameworks to analyze and measure sustainable development. Common features of these methods and frameworks are that they require comprehensive investigations, involve subjective assessments, and lead to results that…
Type Research project
Time period 2016-04-18 - 2017-01-19
The full title och the project is “Externalities in product development gives possibilities for innovation”. Background An increasing number of companies highlight the benefits of long term perspectives in their way of working to reduce…
Type Research project
Time period 2012-12-01 - 2013-08-01
There is no holistic way to handle the issue of biodiversity loss and land use when making an LCA. The aim of the working group is to share experience and best practive on how to deal with biodiversity and land use and how to contribute to existing international and national initiatives.
Type Working group
Time period 2012-01-01 - Ongoing
Two-day course in Applied life cycle thinking 2020, Gothenburg – ONLINE
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…
Swedish Life Cycle Center has, through the development of the EPS-method and a number of projects, been discussing monetarization for several years. With this group and related activities we hope to contribute to the discussion and implentation of "right prices".
Type Working group
Time period 2010-01-01 - Ongoing
This report is a summary of the round table discussion on the network conference about European Environmental Footprints (methods and applications). The conference took part on February 20, 2020 in Stockholm with life cycle professionals…
Author Swedish Life Cycle Center Technical Secretariat
A common platform for knowledge building and collaboration is crucial to spread and develop the life cycle thinking globally. This project aims for a joint national collaboration to engage organizations to apply a life cycle perspective.
Type Admin project
Time period 2017-01-01 - 2020-05-17
The Nordic Dialogue Forum for LCA, climate and buildings is developed in collaboration with the Nordic building authorities. The purpose is to give input to Nordic harmonization of life cycle assessment of climate emissions from…
Type Working group
Time period 2019-10-03 - Ongoing
Public consultation: Sustainable products initiative
The Circular economy action plan describes the potential role of the Environmental footprint methods, for the revised Ecodesign directive and to substantiate green claims. Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Environmental footprint expert group will discuss the…
Fuel producers are increasingly affected by conflicting rules for life cycle assessment (LCA). The EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU framework for Product Environmental Footprints (PEF), and the frameworks of Environmental Product Declarations (EPD)…
Type Research project
Time period 2020-06-15 - Ongoing
Webinar – Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics
Welcome to a webinar with results from the project “Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics”. Tomas Ekvall, Chalmers University of Technology, will present the project and its results, together with Maja Nellström and Marie Gottfridsson,…
Date: November 10, 2016 Time: 09:30-16:30 Place: 3rd floor at IVL, Aschebergsgatan 44, Gothenburg. Closest bus stop: Kapellplatsen Registration: Click here! until workshop is full, but not later than…
Swedish Life Cycle Center provides LCA data in the CPM LCA Database. It all started as a project engaging partners in CPM (former Swedish Life Cycle Center).
Time period 1996-01-01 - 2017-10-31