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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.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2014-10-01 - 2016-12-31
Category
Case studies Communication Knowledge Building Life Cycle Management Research

Life cycle information is used differently thru out the organization, this project investigate how information can contribute for better environmental performance when addressed correctly. The aim of the project is to facilitate for the various functions of a company to contribute to increased energy efficiency in a life cycle perspective.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Research project
Time period 2016-08-15 - 2018-08-31
Category
Energy Life Cycle Management Research

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.
Funded by VINNOVA
Type Research project
Time period 2009-01-01 - 2012-12-30
Category
Research Tools Vehicles & transport

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
Category
Collaboration End-of-life Environmental footprint Recycling Research
Friday, 27 January, 2023

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.
Report no 2023:02
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
Category
Electricity Modelling PEF Product Environmental Footprint
Wednesday, 22 November, 2017

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…

Category
Energy life cycle management

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.
Funded by Swedish Energy Agency
Type Admin project
Time period 2017-01-01 - 2020-05-17
Category
Circular Economy Collaboration Communication Energy Innovation Knowledge Building Life Cycle Management Resource efficiency
Friday, 22 September, 2017

Anders Nordelöf, PhD candidate at Environmental Systems Analysis, Chalmers recently defended his thesis “Using life cycle assessment to support the development of electrified road vehicles”. Anders is also active in the Swedish Life Cycle Center’s network as a member in the working group LCA and vehicles. Following the debate about electric road vehicles in Sweden this is a very actual topic. We asked Anders 3 quick questions about his thesis.

Category
Battery events Vehicles & transport

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
Category
Data Research