We’re pleased to present the headlines of the March/April 2023 edition of the LC Net:

LC Net Focus

  • Life-cycle Networks: Community of Practice

Announcements

  • 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 your inputs on national/regional events related to life-cycle approaches
  • Interns: Welcome to the new! and farewell to the old
  • Request for Proposals: Life Cycle Assessment Learning Module development for aluminium value chain actors

Project & Activity Updates

  • Global LCIA guidance Phase 3 “Creation of a Global Life Cycle Impact Assessment Method”
  • New Guidance on GLAD’s Metadata Descriptors published
  • Webinar Recording: “Impacts of Plastic Litter in LCA: Developments & New Findings”

Life Cycle Community News

  • Open for application: 5th official ‘USEtox’ Summer School in Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
  • InTex all partners meeting & OECD Forum 2023
  • Circular textiles models
  • Publication: Environmental and economic assessment of plastic waste recycling from life cycle perspective

Life Cycle Community Calendar

  • The 30th CIRP Life Cycle Engineering Conference
  • The 11th Australian Conference on Life Cycle Assessment
  • International Conference of Life Cycle Assessment in Latin America (CILCA) 2023
  • World Resources Forum 2023 ‘Rethinking Value – Resources for Planetary Wellbeing’
  • The 11th International Conference On Life Cycle Management
  • 14th LCA Food International Conference

Life Cycle Job Announcements

  • Consultancy Opportunity – GLAD Mapping Coordinator
  • R&D Associate in Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis on Industrial Decarbonization at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Knoxville, TN, USA
  • Life cycle assessment consultant opportunities at RICARDO, USA
  • Life Cycle and Circularity Specialist at Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
  • Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Postdoctoral Appointee of Life Cycle Analysis in Argonne National Laboratory