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…
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This is the project report from the project “Impacts on producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA”. The aim of the project was increased understanding of the multitude of life cycle assessment frameworks used…
Author Sofia Poulikidou, Kristin Johansson, Henric Lassesson, Johan Nilsson, Pavinee Nojpanya and Tomas Rydberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Miguel Brandão, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Tomas Ekvall, TERRA and Chalmers University of Technology. Katarina Lorentzon, Anna Ekman Nilsson and Jennifer Davis, RISE. Ingrid Nyström, CIT Industriell Energi AB. Anna Wikström and Maria Rydberg, Swedish Life Cycle Center
Environmental footprint in Sweden – increased competence and communication – Lessons learned of working with Product Environmental Footprint This report was written within the project Environmental Footprint in Sweden – increased competence and communication, managed within…
Author Sara Palander, Swedish Life Cycle Center; Katarina Lorentzon, RISE; Torun Hammar, RISE; Karin Sanne, IVL; Johan Nilsson, IVL; Lisa Hallberg, IVL; Björn Spak, Swedish EPA
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 - 2021-12-31
EPS (Environmental Priority Strategies in product design) is a systematic approach to choose between design options in product and process development.
Type Research project
Time period 1989-01-16 - 2024-04-20
This is an executive summary (in Swedish) of the project report from the project “Impacts on producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA”. The aim of the project was increased understanding of the multitude…
Author Tomas Ekvall, TERRA and Chalmers University of Technology and Tomas Rydberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
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
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.
Type Research project
Time period 2009-01-01 - 2012-12-30
Background 2009 the first handbook on social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) was published by the UN environmental program (UNEP). From its origin as an environmental tool, life cycle assessment is now being developed in towards…
Type Research project
Time period 2019-10-01 - 2020-03-31
News from the Scientific director Greg Peters Here is the latest Update from the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Scientific Director. If you would like to draw attention to some progress which researchers your…
Monetary valuation of environmental impacts is increasingly used as a basis for decisions in environmental and sustainability issues. This project aims to develop a methodology to communicate environmental damage cost data.
Type Research project
Time period 2016-10-01 - 2018-06-30
The project aims to help Swedish actors understand EU Environmental Footprint & explain the effects of methodological choices in Environmental Footprint
Type Research project
Time period 2022-12-01 - 2023-11-30
Life Cycle Talks: Why do we need a life cycle perspective on negative emissions? With Cecilia Sundberg
Welcome to Life Cycle Talks! A series of talks presenting the research front to keep you up to date with the science and application of the life cycle perspective. Our next guest is Cecilia Sundberg,…
The presentation aims to introduce the European Commission initiative Environmental Footprint. It is a PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes and can be used as a whole or in sections, depending on occasion and what kind…
Author Sara Palander, Swedish Life Cycle Center; Björn Spak, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency; Karin Sanne, IVL; Katarina Lorentzon, RISE; Torun Hammar, RISE
This is the project report from the project Coordination of LCA-data for increased traceability and recycling of plastics. The project aimed to identify the knowledge gaps and challenges that exist in reaching and increasing…
Author Tatjana Karpenja, Jonas Enebro, Lisbeth Dahllöf, Cathrine Löfgren, Ann Lorentzon, Anna Wikström
Introduction The European Commission launched Environmental Footprint methods to measure and communicate the environmental performance of products (both goods and services) and organizations across their life cycle, from raw material extraction or cultivation…
Type Research project
Time period 2022-11-01 - 2023-01-31
The life cycle perspective is crucial for companies and other organizations in order to reduce their environmental impact and to reach climate- and energy efficiency goals. With focus on successful life cycle activities that are already in place in Swedish organizations, this project aimed to spread the good examples.
Type Research project
Time period 2014-10-01 - 2016-12-31
This project aims to explore and influence the development of Environmental Footprint methods (PEF and OEF). It also facilitates knowledge exchange among life cycle experts, partners, and stakeholders to discuss EF methodologies and their integration into EU and national policies.
Type Expert group
Time period 2022-08-01 - Ongoing
Summary The European Commission developed a framework for life cycle assessment (LCA) denoted Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) in collaboration with representatives from the EU Member States, industry, and researchers.
Author Tomas Ekvall, TERRA; Katarina Lorentzon, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden; Elin Einarson Lindvall, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden; Sara Palander, Swedish Life Cycle Center
This project focuses on global biodiversity loss caused by human activities that affect species and ecosystems negatively. The main goal is to exchange insights about efforts and initiate collaboration to address biodiversity challenges in agriculture, forestry, and marine activities.
Type Working group
Time period 2022-09-01 - Ongoing
This report presents the results from the project “Social life cycle assessment – experiences from Swedish users“. The project aimed to map experiences and ideas regarding S-LCA in Swedish industry and enable…
Author Mathias Lindkvist, Maria Rydberg
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 - 2019-12-31
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
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
Network Conference: The role of life cycle thinking in a circular economy
We welcome partners and invited guests to participate in the upcoming network conference arranged by Swedish Life Cycle Center and the project Swedish platform for the life cycle perspective (funded by Swedish Energy Agency) on Wednesday February 7, 2018 in Gothenburg.
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 discussed since the 90's but no consensus has yet been reached. The project is expected to result in increased competence and in consensus on certain aspects of the modeling of recycling in LCA.
Type Research project
Time period 2018-11-15 - 2020-05-31
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 - 2021-12-31
Background There are many ways to assess and quantify resource efficiency, from simple measures of how much of a particular resource is needed for a particular product to more general measures that…
Type Research project
Time period 2018-11-15 - 2020-10-31
This is the project report from the project Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics. The project aimed to increase the knowledge of to what extent results from LCA´s gives the wrong incentives, favoring energy recovery from plastic waste over material recycling.
Author Tomas Ekvall, Marie Gottfridsson, Johan Nilsson, Maja Nellström, Maria Rydberg, Tomas Rydberg
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
In this project, the possibility of standardizing a simplified structure of concepts for system analysis through discrete choice of system boundaries will be investigated. The purpose is to reduce the complexity of system analysis sustainability…
Type Research project
Time period 2019-03-01 - 2024-04-20
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.
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
The EPS system was developed in its first version in the 1990ies for identifying environmental priority strategies in product design and in other situations where there is a need to choose between two or more…
Author Bengt Steen, Tomas Rydberg
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,…
This report contains all 748 complete LCI datasets in the CPM LCA Database as published in 2020-11-20.
Author Johan Tivander