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Tuesday, 21 April, 2020

The annual report of 2019 summarizes an active year!

The annual report of 2019 is now published and summarizes an active year filled with engagement, commitment and many activities among the Swedish Life Cycle Center partners. In this annual report, you will give an insight in some of the…

Friday, 27 March, 2020

Discussions and progress during the last workshop in project about Modeling of recycling

On Tuesday March 24 the last workshop in the research project Modeling of Recycling was held. The online-meeting gathered 14 life cycle professionals from academia, research institutes, industry and government agencies to discuss further some of the models for recycling…

Wednesday, 11 March, 2020

The European Product Environmental Footprints – on the network conference agenda

On Thursday, February 20, it was time for the network conference – Let’s meet and talk LCA – about EU Product Environmental Footprints! The conference was arranged in Stockholm by the Swedish Life Cycle Center within the project Swedish platform…

COLLABORATION environmental footprint KNOWLEDGE BUILDING PEF

Tuesday, 14 January, 2020

Two-day course in Applied life cycle thinking is planned for 2020 in Gothenburg

Do you want to gain in-depth knowledge of the Life Cycle perspective and understand the environmental impact of a product or service throughout the value chain and how you can use this perspective in your business? The course in Applied…

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING life cycle assessment life cycle thinking

Friday, 20 December, 2019

Holiday greetings !

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 technical secretariat are wrapping up…

Friday, 13 December, 2019

Social LCA – study about experiences in Swedish industry

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 Life Cycle Center partners. The…

life cycle assessment research project Social LCA

Wednesday, 04 December, 2019

Models and data for monetary valuation

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 provides data on long term…

Monetary valuation

Thursday, 28 November, 2019

New guideline for valuing environmental related costs and profits published

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 Swedish Institute for Standards).

Environmental damage costs Monetary valuation Standardization

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 modeled in LCA has been…

allocation life cycle assessment modelling of recycling research project

Thursday, 17 October, 2019

Course in Life Cycle Thinking attracts different roles and companies

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. On October 8-9 the Two-day course in Applied life…

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING life cycle thinking

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