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Wednesday, 22 November, 2017

Life cycle perspective highlighted during successful concluding program conference for the collaborative research program Renewable transportation fuels and systems

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,…

events Renewable fuel Vehicles & transport

Impacts on producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA

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)…

Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2020-06-15 - Ongoing

25

Oct

Webinar: Using EPS in product development

LCA based comparison of distribution trucks with different drivelines – a case study from the project “Development of methodology to communicate environmental damage cost data”. Join this webinar if you want to know…

business case eps Monetary valuation Webinar

Tuesday, 23 October, 2018

3 questions about the LCA Case study symposium by SETAC

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…

Case studies conference life cycle assessment

Wednesday, 12 December, 2018

Spotlight on Swedish Energy Agency

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…

Monday, 05 March, 2001

Estimation of the Years of Lost Life (YOLL) as a consequence of nuclear fuel cycle

Report no 2001:03
Author Edlund, Ove

biodiversity & land use

Tuesday, 03 August, 2021

Impacts on fuel producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA (Abstract to LCM 2021)

Poster presentation at LCM 2021. Will be published after the conference.

Report no
Author Sofia Poulikidou (IVL), Tomas Rydberg (IVL), Anna Wikström (Swedish Life Cycle Center), Tomas Ekvall (Chalmers), Pavinee Nojpanya (Chalmers), Carolina Jogner (Chalmers), Anna Ekman Nilsson (RISE), Jennifer Davis (RISE), Johan Nilsson (IVL), Miguel Brandão (KTH)

conference

Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics

This project is a continuation of the project modelling of recycling that aimed to analyzing and debating how recycling should be modeled in life cycle assessment (LCA) and similar environmental assessments and…

Funded by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2020-11-01 - 2021-01-31

Environmental footprint Recycling Research

Wednesday, 03 March, 2021

New report published – Incentives for recycling and incineration in Product Environmental Footprint

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…

Friday, 22 September, 2017

Anders Nordelöf hopes to raise long term environmental awareness of electric road vehicles

Anders Nordelöf, PhD candidate at Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers recently defended his thesis “Using life cycle assessment to support the development of electrified road vehicles”. Anders is also active in the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s network as a member in the working group LCA and vehicles. Following the debate about electric road vehicles in Sweden this is a very actual topic. We asked Anders 3 quick questions about his thesis.

Battery events Vehicles & transport

Tuesday, 19 November, 2019

How should recycling be modeled in LCA?

The method for modeling material recycling can have a decisive impact on the environmental assessment of products with a high content of recycled material or material that is recycled after use. How recycling should be…

allocation life cycle assessment modelling of recycling research project

Development of method and application for monetarization

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…

Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2013-05-01 - 2015-01-31

Monetary valuation Research

Environmental Priority Strategies in product design (EPS)

EPS (Environmental Priority Strategies in product design) is a systematic approach to choose between design options in product and process development.

Funded by
Type Research project
Time period 1989-01-16 - 2021-09-26

EPS Product development Research Tools

05

Jun

Webinar: Introduction to the EPS Enviro-accounting method

How to include externalities in your product and process development? With the EPS method you can get a compass to use when choosing between different design options. Content This introduction webinar is a perfect way…

eps Events KNOWLEDGE BUILDING Webinar

Tuesday, 29 May, 2018

Inspiring seminar on public procurement

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…

events Purchasing

Thursday, 22 November, 2018

How to tackle future requirements on vehicles?

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…

events life cycle assessment policy Vehicles & transport

Tuesday, 15 June, 2021

Collaboration course increases committed PhD students understanding of LCA

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…

Chalmers KTH LCA life cycle assessment PhD course SLU

Analysis tool for transport systems (TrEx)

Facing increasing volumes of freight transportation there is increasing pressure on monitoring and mitigating the negative impact on the environment and society that follows. Within this project 9 reports and publications within the logistics field was produced as well as the TrEx tool, an analysis tool for calculating environmental impact and efficiency of transport systems.

Funded by VINNOVA
Type Research project
Time period 2009-01-01 - 2012-12-30

Research Tools Vehicles & transport

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