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Highlighting the environmental impact of products from a life cycle perspective is becoming increasingly vital. Aiming to enhance awareness and implementation, the project “Environmental Footprint in Swedish Industry” focused on familiarizing the Swedish industry with…

The pilot phase of the large environmental footprint initiative (PEF & OEF), by the European Commission, is completed and many of us are wondering ”What happens now?”. A few remaining PEF pilots are being finalized…

The webinar “EU Environmental Footprint – industrial experiences & updates on the policy process”?, on November 30, was organized to give Swedish industry, authorities and the public sector an opportunity to learn more about Product Environmental Footprint…

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…

Take part in a public consultation and give your view on the proposal “The European Green Deal states “Companies making ‘green claims’ should substantiate these against a standard methodology to assess their impact on the…

“A company wishing to market its product as environmentally friendly in several Member State markets faces a confusing range of choices of methods and initiatives. Sometimes they have to use different ones for different markets.

Environmental damage costs society enormous amounts of money – and often leaves future generations to foot the bill. Now, a new ISO standard will help companies valuate and manage the impact of their environmental damage,…

In March the EU Commission proposed new rules to fight greenwashing by obliging companies to prove their environmental claims. The Commission proposes a Green Claims Directive to ensure that citizens receive reliable information and do…

When the Nordic workshop regarding Product Environmental Footprint took part hundred LCA experts and practitioners came together in Stockholm, mainly from the Nordic countries. The Product Environmental Footprint process aims to develop a harmonized methodology…

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…

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…

What if products in your grocery store were labeled with environmental declarations? What if politicians from all around Europe took decisions based on a joint understanding about products’ and organizations’ environmental aspects? Those are just…

The final report from the project, Modeling of recycling, has now been released. The Swedish Life Cycle Center, and partners, aimed to find the most correct method for how to model recycling in life cycle…

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.

Methods for environmental footprinting of products and services have been and are being developed all over the world. In its communication Single Market for Green Products1 (SMGP), the European Commission 2013 proposed actions to overcome…

Many companies and states agree upon the need to circulate material to a larger extent than today, in order to reach sustainable development goals. Products will have larger content of recycled material in the future…

​Researchers and designers in cooperation. To the left: three fast fashion garments made of paper. To the right: a slow fashion garment used in various phases during 50 years. ​A shirt that can gain a…

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…

The project “Impacts on producers and customers of conflicting rules for LCA” (ICON) started in June 2020 with the aim of increased understanding of the multitude of LCA frameworks used for fuels and the consequences…

Since the 90’s, Life cycle assessments has been used by companies to measure the environmental impacts of their products and services and to better know where to focus their improvements. The method has been famous…

On May 22, 2018, more than 30 people with an interest in the life cycle perspective and product and environmental issues gathered in Gothenburg for an overview of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) process in…

Anne-Marie Tillman, since year 2000 professor at the Department of Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers, is one of the founders of Centre for Environmental Assessment of Product and Material Systems (CPM); the predecessor to…

The new Center project Environmental Footprint in Swedish industry, will give business, authorities and the public sector in Sweden increased awareness of product-related policy development based on Environmental Footprints at the EU level. Furthermore, the project will make…

Circularity and resource efficiency are the latest sustainability buzzwords. The lists recommending what are the best means to achieve circularity are plentiful, but Anne-Marie and her research team applied life cycle thinking to resource efficiency…

Increasingly, companies need to know what environmental damage they make in monetary terms. Among other things, for financial reporting and cost-benefit analyzes. A new standard for monetary valuation of environmental damage costs is now approaching…

  The workshop will provide opportunities for discussion, as well as information about monetary valuation of environmental impacts in the product development process. During the workshop, representatives from the research project Integration of environment and…

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 European Commission is currently seeking feedback on the use of the Environmental Footprint methods and the Product Category Rules/Organization Sector Rules (PEFCRs and OEFSRs) that are part of the method. The results will be…

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,…

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…

The leadership of ISO/TC 207/Subcommittee 1 (Environmental management systems) has sent its congratulations to the experts and the secretariat of WG 7 (Monetary valuation of environmental impacts) for the standardization work on Monetary valuation of…

This newsletter aims to give the reader access to publications and presentations published within the project Environmental Footprint in Sweden – increased competence and communication. The project was carried out within the Swedish Life Cycle…

News from the Scientific Director Greg Peters Here is the latest Update from the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s Scientific Director, focusing this time on a few publications that have appeared online since the last…

Höganäs is the world leader on the market for metal powders with a yearly capacity of 500,000 tons. Höganäs vision is to inspire the industry to make more with less and we aim…

On Thursday 24 November 2022, the Swedish Life Cycle Center organized its first non-digital network conference after the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference was titled “Life Cycle Thinking in Policy and Legislation” and brought together over…

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…

News from the Scientific director Greg Peters This time I aim to entertain and inform you with a bird’s eye, bibliographic overview of Swedish Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research. If you would like…

Welcome to join the webinar: Water footprint – Standards, methodologies and application, with Felipe Oliveira Environmental Engineer at IVL on Agust 24, at 10:00-12:00 AM. About the webinar: The webinar starts with a brief introduction…

Sandvik produces special steel with circularity as a natural part of their business model. Bringing the waste material back into the production loop is beneficial both from an economic and an environmental point of view.

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…

The project Integration of environment and economy in product development gives opportunity for innovations (IMP) has intended to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the manufacturing industry through a pro-active risk management considering environmental and sustainability…