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 Björn Spak, advisor at Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Björn will talk about how SEPA applies life cycle thinking, how LCT and LCA are part of national and European legislation and how the SEPA contributes to the development of life cycle methodology to be used in policy.

Presenter

Björn Spak is an advisor at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency where his focus is life cycled related issues, especially the EU environmental footprint system (PEF/OEF), and legislation which applies LCT/LCA such as the EU Battery regulation and ESPR. Björn is contributing to the integration of life cycle thinking and LCA in the development legislation within EU and at the Swedish national level. In addition, he is engaged in the development of the environmental footprint methods as the Swedish national representative in the European Commission expert groups on the Environmental Footprint (EF Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and EF Steering Group).

More about life cycle thinking and LCA in policy

Project: Swedish climate declarations of new buildings

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Project: EU Battery regulation

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Project : The EU Environmental Footprint Methods

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Publications

Title: The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades
Authors: Sala et al.

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