Become a member of the Life Cycle Initiative

The Life Cycle Initiative is a public-private, multi-stakeholder partnership enabling the global use of credible life cycle knowledge by private and public decision makers. As we move into a new phase of programmes promoting life cycle knowledge and thinking, the Life Cycle Initiative has designed a new governance structure. This new, more ambitious phase in the Initiative’s development reflects the growing need for an engaged and active membership base, including institutional members from three broad constituencies (government, business, science and civil society), and individual members from science and civil society.

The Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative invites you and/or your institution to join us as we move into an exciting and highly active period, delivering strong results for all stakeholders in the years to come. Please download the membership application form and return signed (with your organization logo if relevant) to membership@lifecycleinitiative.org.

Statement of Intent / Membership Conditions for Life Cycle Initiative Members

This statement is a non-legally-binding expression of support for the Life Cycle Initiative

The Life Cycle Initiative is a public-private, multi-stakeholder partnership fostering progress towards sustainable development through: (1) advancing the understanding of Life Cycle Thinking by private and public decisionmakers and of the decision-making process by life cycle experts, in order to improve decisions that require assessing and comparing products, technologies, lifestyles and economy-wide choices; and (2) building consensus on and facilitating the access to environmental, social and economic life cycle knowledge (LCA

data, methods, indicators, etc.). The Life Cycle Initiative works in partnerships to achieve both Sustainable Development Goals and Nationally Determined Contributions for the Paris Agreement, faster and more efficiently by bringing Life Cycle Thinking to the mindsets of decision makers with the practical knowledge and tools to enhance the sustainability of their decisions.

Membership is open to both public and private institutions and individuals that express their interest in the areas of work of the Life Cycle Initiative, and agree to the following Membership Commitment:

All members will:

• Commit to the vision and mission of the Initiative, abide to its code of ethics, and commit to actively support the activities of the Life Cycle Initiative in various ways (such as sponsoring, delivering specific activities, fund-raising, promoting and using Initiative approaches, etc.), depending on possibilities and preferences;
• Vote for the Steering Committee representatives to make decisions towards the implementation of the Life Cycle Initiative’s vision, mission and planned outputs;
• Get early access to the deliverables of the Life Cycle Initiative;
• Contribute to transforming the economy through life cycle thinking, both regionally and globally;
• Associate with the global decision making processes on sustainable development, influenced by the Life Cycle Initiative’s deliverables;
• Adhere to the rules and regulations regarding external communications about the Life Cycle Initiative and the use of logos and materials of the Life Cycle Initiative;
• Contribute financially and/or in-kind to the Life Cycle Initiative, according to their resources and institutional capacity.

Members are expected to contribute actively to the Initiative in various ways:

• Institutional members support the Initiative in one or more of the following ways:
• leading the delivery of Initiative activities;
• funding activities of the Initiative (i.e. becoming a sponsor; specific rules for sponsors apply, see Strategy Document), or contribute in-kind according to their resources and institutional capacity;
• fund-raising to support Initiative activities;
• promoting the use of the Initiative’s deliverables in own decision- and policy-making processes; all institutional members commit to briefly report on the ways in which they promote the Initiative’s vision and mission, at least when joining the Initiative and as required by the Initiative’s processes (no more than once every two years);
• hosting or co-organizing face-to-face meetings of the Initiative;
• seeking synergies with their own activities (e.g. presenting the activities of the Initiative through own channels and public events; organizing back-to-back or joint events; etc.);
• providing feedback and participating in Initiative’s stakeholder consultations;
• other ways that are identified as beneficial for the Initiative.
• Individual members are most likely to actively contribute to the Initiative through support of specific programmes, or other institutional activities of the Initiative. An in-kind contribution, equivalent to about 8 full days per year, is expected from individual members. Specific ways in which Individual members support the activities of the Initiative include:
• leading the delivery of Initiative activities;
• fund-raising to support Initiative activities;
• seeking synergies with their own activities (e.g. presenting the activities of the Initiative through own channels and public events; organizing back-to-back or joint events; etc.);
• providing feedback and participating in Initiative’s stakeholder consultations;
• other ways that are identified as beneficial for the Initiative.

Members will find significant value in the Initiative including:

• vote for representatives to the Steering Committee (influencing);
• early access to the deliverables of the Life Cycle Initiative;
• community transforming the economy through life cycle thinking, both regionally and globally;
• associated to the global processes influenced by the Initiative’s deliverables;
• experts influencing a stronger consideration of life cycle thinking into policy- and decision-making;
• Life Cycle expert Community of Practice informing the needs of Users, thus getting their science applied;
• users needing to identify best approaches for specific policy- and decision-making processes get access to top experts in the global life cycle community.

Membership will be reviewed periodically by the Steering Committee, in order to recognize and maintain the status of active members. Member wishing to withdraw membership of the Life Cycle Initiative shall provide a written notice to the Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative no later than 45 calendar days prior to the end of the calendar year, with membership resignation taking effect as of the first day of the following year.

Privacy Information

As a member of the Life Cycle Initiative, you will receive regular communication on our activities through emails and newsletters. You can unsubscribe from our emails by contacting info@lifecycleinitiative.org. We do not share your information in any way other than the occasions described in the bullet points below. We may share or disclose information about you:

• in our website and media services, mentioning you as a member of the Life Cycle Initiative (your organizational name as institutional member or personal name as individual member, not your email address or contact information);
• to our email distribution service provider who sends out our emails and newsletters (your email address);
• if you are a funding partner, you will be acknowledged in our website, presentations, flyers and other communication materials (your organizational name and logo);
• occasionally, to other Life Cycle Initiative members when opportunities arise for potential collaboration (your name and email address)
• other exceptional cases by consulting you in advance for consent