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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…

On March 4 the Nordic working group for LCA climate and buildings met to discuss definitions of carbon neutrality in the building sector and the concept of carbon handprint. The group also had the chance…

​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…

On 3-4 of October the first Nordic climate forum for Construction took place in Malmö gathering representatives from authorities, industry and academia within the buildings and construction sector. The main question for the conference was to begin…

On Thursday November 26, 2020, Swedish Life Cycle Center organized its first online Network conference. The aim of the conference was to highlight the Swedish research front within LCA. Over 100 people joined the conference…

A recent project within Swedish Life Cycle Center, “Incentives for energy recovery in LCA for plastics” funded by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, has resulted in a published paper in the scientific journal Waste Management.

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…

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…

The CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference took place April 30- May 2 in Copenhagen. Ilaria Giovanna Barletta, PhD Student at the division of Production Systems, Chalmers, was there to present her paper and gave us…

This paper elaborates on the role of life cycle centers and networks. It shows that networks and centers on life cycle thinking serves many roles in boosting industrial application of life cycle thinking as well…

In June, the 7th international conference on Social Life Cycle Assessment was successfully held and organized by Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Swedish Life Cycle Center. Due…

Latest news on the coming Swedish Life Cycle Center/SETAC conference Planning for the 26th LCA Symposium of SETAC Europe continues apace.  Since my last update we have now populated a talented and diverse scientific program…

Jenny Lagergren, Project Manager at Swedish Life Cycle Center gives her reflections from the conference Hållbara livsstilar, November 14-15, 2018. “What is a sustainable lifestyle and what drives us to choose more environmental friendly…

On February 20, 2020, Swedish Life Cycle Center and the project Swedish platform for the life cycle perspective arranged a network conference on the topic Environmental footprint. A summary of the round table discussions is…

On Thursday September 26 it was time for the Swedish Life Cycle Centers network conference – Let´s meet and Talk LCA! where 45 life cycle professionals from the network met and shared their experiences. On…

How can purchasers set requirements on suppliers with a life cycle perspective in mind? How can suppliers prepare for sustainability requirements from purchasers in public sector? Those were some of the questions that were initially…

This year a total of 21 students from seven different universities across Scandinavia participated in the PhD-course Advances in Life Cycle Assessment (5 hp).The course is a collaboration between the partner universities in the Swedish Life Cycle…

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…

On April 22nd, the working group for LCA climate and buildings will gathering for their third meeting and at this meeting the discussion will be within the topics of decarbonization, assessment methods and data and…

Abstract submissions for sessions at the upcoming SETAC Europe 26th LCA Symposium are open. Submit your abstract to showcase your work, share insights and engage in meaningful discussions centred around life cycle assessment (LCA).

The SETAC Europe 26th LCA Symposium, held 21–23 October in Gothenburg, Sweden, brought together over 500 experts and practitioners in life cycle assessment (LCA). The symposium fostered meaningful discussions about key issues and opportunities within…

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…

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…

The vehicle industry is undertaking a huge transformation. New requirements from customers and governments are pushing producers to meet the sustainable development goals in different ways. Producers of cars, trucks and agricultural machines are adjusting…

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.

On August 29-31 the Life Cycle Innovation Conference was arranged in Berlin by FSLCI and off course, Swedish Life Cycle Center as strategic partner to FSLCI was there to contribute to the program. Around hundred…

What a great start to 2024 we have had! We were overwhelmed by the interest in submitting sessions proposals to SETAC Europe’s 26th LCA symposium – receiving over 60 proposals. The programme committee did a…

On Thursday, November 23, 2023, the Swedish Life Cycle Center held its annual network conference. This year’s theme was “LCA Data & Methodology,” and a diverse group of over 70 participants representing academia, industry, research…

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…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Its great scientific news that we can welcome Luleå University of Technology (LTU) as a new academic partner in the Center. We welcome Tomas Zobel and Linn Berglund to the Board and if you are…

In January 2019 Croft et Al, published a review in The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment with the title The availability of life-cycle studies in Sweden (January 2019, volume 24, issue 1, pages 6–11). The review focus on availability of quantitative information for non-specialists and concludes that:

News from the Scientific director Greg Peters Its time for my last Scientific Directions update for 2022 and as an expat Aussie my thoughts turn to migratory scientific behaviours during this dark Scandinavian season.  Here…

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…

In this first update for 2023 we have one big news story: SETAC is coming to Sweden! The Swedish Life Cycle Center is proud to announce it will host the 26th SETAC Europe LCA Symposium.

On October 6, Swedish life cycle experts in the vehicle field gathered to discuss and exchange knowledge from the industry and research area. The ambition was high, the atmosphere was creative and the air…

On November 23 Swedish Life Cycle Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary as a national competence center. In this spirit we welcome your participation in an inspiring day of presentations and discussions with regard to…

In October the project “Social life cycle assessment – experiences from Swedish users” started where Mathias Lindqvist at Chalmers University of Technology are doing an interview study, interviewing a selection of Swedish…

It is often possible for a company to achieve greater overall energy savings by including their products’ entire value chains compared to only focusing on own operations. Yet, although many companies have internal information and decision-support systems that include energy use along the value chain, this information rarely have an impact on decisions and actions throughout the company. The aim of the project “Adapted decision support for increased energy efficiency in value chains” administrated within Swedish…

In April and May, the Swedish Life Cycle Center and our university partners arranged the third edition of the PhD course, “Advances in Life Cycle Assessment.” This time, the course was not just for PhD…

The 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Management (LCM) brought together a diverse and global community, with 950 participants from 44 countries, underscoring the growing significance of LCM on a worldwide scale. Held from September…