Welcome to this webinar by Bengt Steen, professor emeritus at Chalmers University of Technology about his recently launched book  Monetary valuation of environmental impacts: Models and Data. The book is based on the EPS system, which is adapted to the new ISO standard 14008 on monetary valuation of environmental impacts and related aspects. The most significant differences compared to the 2015 version of the EPS impact values are the valuation of impacts on environmental goods. For example, the value of 1 kg of crop is based on detailed data from FAO. The impact factors, i.e. relating emissions to impacts on environmental goods are briefly described. The webinar is intended to be of value for LCA and CBA practitioners and for developers of circular economy.

Date: April 16, 2020
Time: 10.00-11.00
Place: Web-meeting
Price: Free of charge
For whom: Public / The webinar is intended to be of value for LCA and CBA practitioners and for developers of circular economy

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About the speaker

Bengt Steen is Professor Emeritus at Chalmers University of Technology. Since 1990 Bengt’s research has mainly been focused on Environmental Life Cycle Assessments (LCA with a particular interest to the monetary valuation of environmental impacts. He has been one of the developers of the EPS system, an LCA tool for product development. He has also been active in the ISO work to develop international standards for LCA, eco-efficiency and monetary valuation of environmental impacts. 2012 he got the SETAC Europe Life Time Award for Outstanding Achievements in LCA. Bengt Steen holds a PhD in chemical engineering at  Chalmers University of Technology from 1975. Why did you write this book? – “The new ISO 14008 standard on monetary valuation of environmental impacts and related aspects, published in March this year, offers a harmonized structure to communicate monetary values of environmental impacts. My research on the issue has been difficult to communicate and now there was an opportunity to reach a large audience in a credible way. The dissemination of the standard would also benefit from a concrete example.” Read the full interview here

More information

The book Monetary valuation of environmental impacts: Models and Data can be found here.

Read more about the standard ISO 14008:2019 Monetary valuation of environmental impacts and related environmental aspects here.

Read more about the working group Get the prices right here.

This webinar is arranged by Swedish Life Cycle Center and through the project Swedish platform for the life cycle perspective (funded by the Swedish Energy Agency) and in cooperation with working group Get the prices right.