Search result (100 hits on "sustainable development")
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Workshop on Stimulating Innovative and Sustainable Business Decisions
The 10th of October 2016, there will be a workshop in Gothenburg within the project Integration of environment and economy in product development gives opportunity for innovation. The workshop will provide opportunities for discussion, as…
Background The project was initiated due absence of involvement by lyfe cycle analysts in production development. In order to steer development in production towards enhancements that is beneficial economically and has little impact on the…
Funded by Chalmers Area of Advance – Sustainable Production Initiative
Type Research project
Time period 2011-03-01 - 2014-12-31
Type Research project
Time period 2011-03-01 - 2014-12-31
Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
Sustainable development is multidimensional. UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals and a multitude of targets and indicators. However, choices made for implementing sustainable development frequently require aggregation of indicators. The aim of this work is…
Report no 2024:02
Author Bengt Steen, Chalmers University of Technology. Tomas Rydberg and Stefan Åström, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Author Bengt Steen, Chalmers University of Technology. Tomas Rydberg and Stefan Åström, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.
Friday, 20 January, 2023
She has been there from the start of the Swedish Life Cycle Center and has seen the life cycle perspective reach more and more parts of society. The center’s new chairman, Susan Iliefski-Janols from Essity,…
Monday, 09 September, 2019
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.
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Jun
Towards sustainable supply chains through a common approach for company strategic work and daily operations. The LIFE TOSCA project has provided the means for companies and industrial sectors to improve their environmental performance by addressing…
Funded by EU LIFE + Environment programme
Type Research project
Time period 2009-01-01 - 2011-12-31
Type Research project
Time period 2009-01-01 - 2011-12-31
The project intended to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the manufacturing industry through a pro-active risk management. It considers both environmental aspects as well as economic value, early in the product development phase.
Funded by VINNOVA Sweden’s innovation agency, partly
Type Research project
Time period 2013-11-01 - 2016-10-01
Type Research project
Time period 2013-11-01 - 2016-10-01
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Oct
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".
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency, partly
Type Working group
Time period 2010-01-01 - 2019-12-31
Type Working group
Time period 2010-01-01 - 2019-12-31
Environmentally sound energy production and use are central components in a sustainable society. Much could be gained by coordinating data management in order to provide open LCA-data that can be used by authorities, companies, and researchers to consistently and efficiently analyze environmental performance.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2015-09-01 - 2016-05-31
Type Research project
Time period 2015-09-01 - 2016-05-31
The Nordic Dialogue Forum for LCA, climate and buildings is developed in collaboration with the Nordic building authorities with the purpose is to give input to Nordic harmonization of life cycle assessment of climate emissions…
Funded by Nordic Sustainable Construction Programme through Ministry of Environment in Finland
Type Working group
Time period 2019-10-03 - 2023-03-31
Type Working group
Time period 2019-10-03 - 2023-03-31
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Aug
Life Cycle Talks: LCA for optimization in early design phases of buildings. With Alexander Hollberg
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 Alexander Hollberg,…
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Nov
Webinar: Environmental and Economic implications of circularity
Content Closing the loop via reuse, refurbishment, and remanufacturing provides promising avenues to lower environmental impact while remaining profitable. But are all products suitable for a (so-called) circular economy and under what circumstance? This webinar…
Background There are today several methods and frameworks to analyze and measure sustainable development. Common features of these methods and frameworks are that they require comprehensive investigations, involve subjective assessments, and lead to results that…
Funded by VINNOVA
Type Research project
Time period 2016-04-18 - 2017-01-19
Type Research project
Time period 2016-04-18 - 2017-01-19
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Sep
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 - 2024-05-04
Type Research project
Time period 1989-01-16 - 2024-05-04
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Nov
Two-day course in Applied life cycle thinking November 2022 – ONLINE
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. In this two-day course…
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Oct
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.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2016-10-01 - 2018-06-30
Type Research project
Time period 2016-10-01 - 2018-06-30
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Oct
Public consultation: Sustainable products initiative
The Circular economy action plan describes the potential role of the Environmental footprint methods, for the revised Ecodesign directive and to substantiate green claims. Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Environmental footprint expert group will discuss the…
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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.
Funded by Partly by the Swedish Energy Agency
Type Expert group
Time period 2022-08-01 - Ongoing
Type Expert group
Time period 2022-08-01 - Ongoing
Wednesday, 12 December, 2018
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…
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.
Funded by RE:Source
Type Research project
Time period 2018-11-15 - 2020-05-31
Type Research project
Time period 2018-11-15 - 2020-05-31
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Dec
Life Cycle Talks: How to assess the environmental performance of emerging technologies? With Matty Janssen
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 Matty Janssen,…
Monday, 14 November, 2016
Chapter in book The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise – Europe (vol. 3), pp 230-235, Greenleaf Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-78353-514-9…
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Author Anne-Marie Tillman, Sara Palander
Author Anne-Marie Tillman, Sara Palander
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…
Funded by Vinnova
Type Research project
Time period 2019-03-01 - 2024-05-04
Type Research project
Time period 2019-03-01 - 2024-05-04
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Apr
The pursuit for win-wins has a long history. From an understanding of the relationship between environmental performance and economic activity, the need for environmentally sustainable business models has emerged. The purpose of this project is to grow the knowledge, capacity, and application of Business Model Life Cycle Assessment (BMLCA).
Funded by The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity
Type Research project
Time period 2023-09-01 - Ongoing
Type Research project
Time period 2023-09-01 - Ongoing
The project aims to increase the Swedish collaboration within the life cycle-field and contribute to knowledge exchange, competence building and increased understanding of the life cycle perspective.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Admin project
Time period 2020-06-01 - Ongoing
Type Admin project
Time period 2020-06-01 - Ongoing
LCA data is used by organizations to measure, follow up and reduce environmental and social impact. For the Swedish life Cycle Center it is important to contribute to making LCA data more accessible and transparent globally and therefor this expert group has been established.
Funded by In-kind by partners
Type Expert group
Time period 2015-01-01 - 2020-11-30
Type Expert group
Time period 2015-01-01 - 2020-11-30
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Jun
Strategic intelligence meeting: EU policies and its relevance to the circular transition of Swedish industrial companies
The Swedish Life Cycle Center strategic intelligence meeting on EU policies and its relevance to the circular transition of Swedish industrial companies, is organized within the Innovation cluster for the life cycle perspective. This Strategic…
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Two-day course in Applied life cycle thinking 2020, Gothenburg – ONLINE
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. In this two-day course…
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Swedish Life Cycle Center provides LCA data in the CPM LCA Database. It all started as a project engaging partners in CPM (former Swedish Life Cycle Center).
Funded by
Time period 1996-01-01 - 2017-10-31
Time period 1996-01-01 - 2017-10-31
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Webinar #1: Innovative LCA tools: Exploring Premise, Activity Browser and Brightway
Welcome to an enlightening session at the Swedish Life Cycle Center, where Associate Professor Bernhard Steubing and Dr. Romain Sacchi will discuss prospective Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This presentation aims to give an overview…
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Two-day course in Applied life cycle thinking, at Chalmers University of Technology
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. In this two-day course…
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Apr
Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
Video Lecture: Thirty years of research on Life Cycle Assessment 26 years ago, Swedish Life Cycle Center started its journey. A journey built on a common need between academia, industry,…
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
Type Research project
Time period 2013-05-01 - 2015-01-31
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…
Funded by VINNOVA
Type Research project
Time period 2012-12-01 - 2013-08-01
Type Research project
Time period 2012-12-01 - 2013-08-01
