Call for Applications for the 2017 LCA Award
The Life Cycle Initiative has announced the 2017 LCA Award, and is currently calling for proposals. This award aims to transfer tools and knowledge to develop capacities on using LCA in target regions. Individuals and organizations based in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean are welcome to submit their project proposals. Selected projects will receive technical support from LCA experts, as well as LCA software and/or database from our sponsors.
The application submission deadline is 13 July 2017.
For further information, please visit: https://www.lifecycleinitiative.org/call-for-applications-for-the-2017-lca-award/
Public Consultation on Key Environmental Indicators for the Private Tourism Sector
UN Environment is conducting a public consultation on the guidance document for Key Environmental Indicators for the Tourism Private Sector. The guidance document is the outcome of collaboration among sustainable tourism and major life cycle approach experts from academia, international organizations and industry associations.
The indicators identified in this guidance would help the tourism private sector to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement using a life cycle perspective.
The main objectives of this consultation are to: communicate recommendations on key environmental indicators to tourism value chain professionals, and; collect feedback and suggestions from the tourism industry in order to improve suggested indicators and implementation guidelines.
The consultation participation deadline is close of business on 31 July 2017.
In order to participate in the consultation, please go to the project website.
Coming Soon: Road Testing Organizational Life Cycle Assessment Report
This month, the global life cycle community will see the release of the report ‘Road testing Organizational Life Cycle Assessment around the world: Applications, experiences and lessons learned’.
The report is being released following the successful launch in 2015 of ‘Guidance on Organizational Life Cycle Assessment’, a Life Cycle Initiative publication with more than 10,000 downloads to date. After this report, the Organizational LCA (O-LCA) flagship project embarked on an ambitious piloting process: O-LCA was applied by 12 organizations from around the world, the “O-LCA road testers”.
The new publication offers in-depth insights into O-LCA application, developed from the outcomes of the road testing. It includes an executive summary for each of the road testers’ case studies, and it presents the results of a comprehensive survey through which the road testers share their experience, feedback and lessons learned.
The publication’s O-LCA case studies represent an important contribution to the existing body of examples and guidelines, which the authors hope will promote and inspire further application of O-LCA, greater use of the O-LCA Guidance, and on-going enhancement of the O-LCA methodology.
The report will be available on the Life Cycle Initiative website by the end of July.
‘AWARE’ Paper Available Online
The Life Cycle Initiative announces the publication of ‘The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining’, developed by the WULCA project in the framework of its collaboration with the Life Cycle Initiative. The paper can be accessed online, and cited using the following information:
• Boulay, A.-M., Bare, J., Benini, L., Berger, M., Lathuilliere, M., Manzardo, A., Pfister, S. (2017). Consensus-based water scarcity footprint method from WULCA: the AWARE model. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. Accepted. doi:10.1007/s11367-017-1333-8
In other news, the recording of the annual Water Use in LCA (WULCA) meeting, held on Brussels in May 2017, is available online on the WULCA website.
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