Based on the results of the UNEP Life Cycle Assessment metastudies series, this booklet shows what alternatives have the least environmental impacts for nine types of commonly used single-use plastic...
Call for Funding: a new project to develop consistent guidelines to model and consider Biogenic Carbon in LCA • GLAD continues to innovate • INC-2: Registration Open • Calling for...
UNEP’s report on “Single-use supermarket food packaging and its alternatives: Recommendations from life cycle assessments” is now available online. The report draws recommendations for policy makers and LCA practitioners on......
When: Saturday 26 November 2022 (9:30-18:15 GMT-3) Where: Punta del Este Convention and Exhibition Centre, Uruguay (in-person and online) Programme & Registration (before 31 Oct 2022): https://bit.ly/MultiStakeholderForumINC1 You are......
The Life Cycle Initiative co-hosted the multi-stakeholder dialogues alongside the preparatory Open Ended Working Group meeting for the intergovernmental negotiating committee on plastic pollution from 29 May to 1 June. The dialogues demonstrated the diversity......
Globally USD 460 billion of value is lost each year by discarding clothes that could still be worn How Life Cycle Thinking helps developing Innovative Business Practices for African SMEs......
Plastic pollution is a global problem. Approximately 7 billion of the 9.2 billion tonnes of plastic produced from 1950-2017 became plastic waste, ending up in landfills or dumped. Plastic pollution......
29 May – 1 June 2022 You are invited to join the Multi-Stakeholder dialogues, which are part of the programme of the open-ended working group (OEWG), and organized by UNEP, the......
Two months have already passed since UNEA 5.2 created momentum in the global environmental agenda! Its historic resolution ‘End Plastic Pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument’ has already sparked......
The Giant Plastic Tap, co-created by Artist Benjamin Von Wong, the Human Needs Project and the residents of Kibera, welcomed participants to UNEA5.2, reminding them of 1) the urgent need......
