The session was a part of the International Industrial Ecology Day 2024 (November 21) – the 4th IE Day organized by the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE).
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ: Timo Diepers, Amelie Mรผller
๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: Institute of Technical Thermodynamics RWTH Aachen; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University
๐๐จ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง/๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐: Aachen, Germany; Leiden, Netherlands, 12- 1pm
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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-established tool for assessing the environmental impacts of products and services. However, LCA typically assumes static product systems and technosphere-biosphere interactions, overlooking their inherent dynamic nature. Recent research has made significant progress in criticizing this steady-state assumption of LCA, highlighting how the various building blocks of LCAs are interlinked with time.
This session explores the importance of incorporating time into LCA, with a particular focus on time-based life cycle inventory generation and usage. We also aim to discuss critical areas for future research towards a fully coherent treatment of time in the LCA framework.
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Speakers:
– Romain Sacchi (Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis (LEA), Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland)
– Simon Bruhn (Department of Green Technology (IGT), University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark)
– Amelie Mรผller (Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Netherlands and VITO, Belgium)
12:00 – 12:05: Welcome and introduction by Timo Diepers
12:05 – 12:20: Romain Sacchi: Bridging Future Energy Scenarios with LCA: Adapting Background Databases for Prospective Sustainability Insights
12:20 – 12:35: Simon Bruhn: Historical LCA – what can the future learn from the past
12:35 – 12:50: Amelie Mรผller: Time-explicit LCA: combining the strengths of dynamic and prospective LCA in a temporally coherent method
12:50 – 13:00: Synthesis and discussion