Training material for developing LCM capability now available
The Initiative is delighted to announce the launch of a final version of the “Life Cycle Management-Capability Maturity Model” (LCM-CMM) material, after a review process involving its lead author (Professor Tom Swarr), input from trainees, and comments from the life cycle community through the Initiative’s website.
The aim of the “LCM-CMM” is to focus on capability development and implementation to fully operationalize and mainstream LCA in product development, marketing, and strategic decision-making in business.
From a practical point of view, this approach aims at continuously raising the organizational maturity of an entity and its suppliers in order to make value chains more sustainable. To make that happen, the capability framework divides sustainability concepts into smaller elements, with specific objectives tailored to the current state of knowledge and practice of the organization.
The LCM-CMM Workbook and the training slides are now freely available for download.
Call for abstracts to SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting
The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) unit in Europe. The 2016 edition, held in Nantes, France, in 22-26 May 2016, will be dedicated to “Environmental contaminants from land to sea: continuities and interface in environmental toxicology and chemistry”.
Abstract submission is open until Wednesday 25 November 2015, 23:59 CET.
If you join SETAC Europe 2016, let’s keep in touch! The Life Cycle Initiative will lead 3 sessions:
• From streamlining LCA to new concepts of hotspots analysis;
• Life cycle data developments;
• Consensus building in life cycle impact assessment.
A two-day, back-to-back workshop will be dedicated to international discussions on data conformance and review (See Flagship activity feedback Section).
Call for inputs on LCA databases and datasets
Please contribute and provide inputs on the two following projects:
Databases Conformance Criteria
The Life Cycle Initiative has developed conformance criteria for Life Cycle Assessment databases. The objective is to allow assessment of the practical conformance of a given LCA database to the “Global Guidance Principles on LCA Databases”. To get involved, click here!
Datasets review criteria
Within the context of technical support on review to three countries, UNEP, with the help of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, has supported the development of a set of international review criteria for LCA datasets. To get involved, click here!
Please send your comments by 15 December to consultations (at) lifecycleinitiative.org. Your feedback will be included in the next discussions in SETAC Nantes.
See the Flagship activity section for more information about databases and datasets.
Survey on LCA best practices
How is Life Cycle Assessment implemented in different countries? Wladmir Motta, coach for LCM CMM pilot projects is conducting a survey to explore this question as part of his PhD research. The objective is to get a picture of best practices worldwide, and how it can be adapted in the Brazilian context. Results will be shared in LC Net’s July-August 2016 issue.
Please contribute by 14 November. The survey takes a maximum of 10 minutes to complete.
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