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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 looking forward to introducing Electrolux…
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 Analysis at the Technology Management…
When the European Commission (EU COM) sets and driving the development of the environmental footprint is the purpose that through a combination of market pressure and policy instruments improve the environmental performance of products and services in the European market.
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 manager at a Chalmers research…
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 Center; Chalmers University of Technology,…
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 be held during the spring.
On March 4 the Nordic working group for LCA climate and buildings met to discuss definitions of carbon neutrality in the building sector and the concept of carbon handprint. The group also had the chance to listen to Tarja Häkkinen,…
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 is the best option from…
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 Energy Agency call “Competence center…
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 to listen to presentations, discuss…
