LC Net • Newsletter of the Life Cycle Initiative

Life Cycle Events, Announcements and more! July/August 2015 Edition

LC Net Focus

Announcements

Including abstract deadlines, publications, and other interesting news

Call for datasets review: Invitation to review datasets from emerging economies

UNEP supports the practical development of national LCA databases in line with the Global Guidance Principles for LCA databases in selected emerging economies. Within this project, the co-chairs of the Flagship on Life Cycle Data are coordinating a practical exercise on the review of datasets in three countries: Brazil, Malaysia and Thailand. The datasets that will be reviewed are the ones that are considered to be crucial for the national databases in these countries. For this endeavor we need two reviewers per dataset, one who looks at the data with a sector view and one who does so from a methodology eye. The timing of this exercise is maximum a month in August/September 2015. Reviewers will be asked to assess list criteria, and will sign a Non-Disclosure-Agreement (NDA). Become one of the reviewers and participate to the progress towards more and better quality LCA data globally.

If you are interested; please contact the review coordinators Bruce Vigon and Guido Sonnemann. This call is open until 15 July 2015

Call for papers for the 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI 2015)

The Chemical Engineering Department of the Kasetsart University is organizing the 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable innovation (ICGSI 2015) on 8-10 November 2015 in Pattaya, Thailand. This conference serves as a trans-disciplinary, international forum for the exchange of information and research outputs, policies, and technologies designed to promote progress towards making societies and regions more sustainable through Green Process Engineering. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations may be submitted till July 31st, 2015.

Access more information and online abstract submission system.

Abstract submission deadline for Indian Conference on Life Cycle Management (ILCM) 2015 extended until 10 July

The fourth edition of ILCM will be held from 14-15 September 2015 in New Delhi, back to back with the ISO TC 207 meeting. The deadline for abstract submission is 10th July 2015. For more information, please contact the organizers at [email protected] or visit the conference website at www.indialca.com.

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Our Calendar: Where we and our partners will be in the coming months

For a full calendar of life cycle events, see our Events page on our website.

1) Events at CILCA 2015 • Lima, Peru • 13-14 July 2015

The Initiative is holding several events at CILCA 2015. The Initiative will also have its Booth there, so drop by and say hello! See LC Net Focus above for full details.

2) Technical Meetings on LCA in Public Policy • Santiago, Chile • 17 July 2015

Technical meetings with Ministry of Environment of Chile and Fundación Chile, on the use of LCA to support a National Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production

3) Several LC Initiative events at LCM 2015 • Bordeaux, France • 30 August-2 September 2015

• Meeting on water in LCIA on 31 August

• Meeting on LCM CMM pilots on 2 September (9-10:30am) open to all participants in the conference, with the goal of sharing the experience from LCM-CMM pilot projects to discuss how to mainstream LCT in SMEs in developing countries

• Workshop on databases conformance criteria on 3 September (PM) -- 4 September (AM) 

• Workshop on peer review of datasets from emerging economies on 4 September (PM) 

Visit the official LCM 2015 Conference website.

4) ISO TC 207 Plenary Meeting & Greenhouse Gas management capacity building (including Carbon Footprint) • New Delhi, India • 4-12 September 2015

Co-organized by UNEP, ISO, the Bureau of Indian Standards, FICCI and the Life Cycle Initiative, back-to-back with the Indian LCM 2015 14-15 September. Learn more.

5) Indian LCM Conference 2015 • New Delhi, India • 14-15 September 2015 (Visit the official website.)

6) LCA in policy workshop • Colombo, Sri Lanka • 16 or 17 September 2015 (Date to be confirmed)

7) LCA XV • Vancouver, Canada • 6-8 October 2015 (Visit the official website.)

8) Expo 2015 • Milan, Italy • 6-8 October 2015 (Visit the official website)

9) 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation • Pattaya, Thailand • 8-10 November 2015  (Visit the official website) 

10) World Resources Forum 2015 • Davos, Switzerland • 11 – 14 October 2015 (Visit the official website)

11) LCM Australia 2015 • Melbourne, Australia • 24-2 November, 2015  (Visit the official website)

See the rest of the year’s events on our Upcoming Events page!

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A Look Inside - Profiling Our Sponsors & Partners

Flashback: Recent Life Cycle Initiative Events & Activity

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1) International cooperation in LCA databases meeting in Barcelona

UNEP organized and chaired a meeting on international cooperation in LCA databases on May 6th, 2015 in Barcelona. The discussion was well attended and raised significant interest among some key players in the commercial LC database arena (ecoinvent, thinkstep, GreenDelta, BONSAI) as well as the European Commission and countries currently sharing their experiences in international collaboration and technical support for national LCA databases (Malaysia; Thailand; Brazil). Concrete steps were discussed and further progress is expected on one collaborative workshop in LCM Bordeaux on organizing international peer reviews of LCA databases and on agreeing criteria to assess conformance against the Global Guidance Principles on LCA databases. Consult the Flagship page.

2) Workshop sessions on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) indicators in Barcelona

UNEP and SETAC co-organized the pre-Pellston workshop on Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) on 7-8 May, 2015 in Barcelona.

This consultation workshop was well attended by stakeholders from different sectors. Different points namely the ISO requirements on LCIA, the potential linking of environmental and socio-economic assessments and the potential links between impact indicators and international processes such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were discussed. The issue of linking geographic information and intensity levels, when dealing with spatially dependent impact categories (land use, water use), was raised. A common case study on rice production and consumption in different places in the world will be used to test practicality and relevance of consensus impact indicators. Consult the Flagship page.

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