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Roundtable on “Harmonisation beyond standardisation”
November 13, 2013 by admin
This week Prof. Bo Weidema from 2.-0 LCA consultants will be contributing to the Roundtable on “Harmonisation beyond standardisation” at the SETAC Case Studies Symposium, Rome.
One of the questions he will be discussing with the audience is the great number of guidelines that interpret the basic ISO 14040/44 standards for LCA. All the interpretations claim to be based on – if not directly to be in accordance with – the ISO 14040/44.
But are all these guidelines really needed – and if so, does it point to a failure of ISO 14040/44 to fulfil its role as a standard? Perhaps we should focus on clarifying the core standards ISO 14040/44? That might just leave us with more time for the biggest problem on our hands: The lack of high-quality data and impact assessment models!
New scientific arguments for including the rebound effect
September 2, 2013 by Bo Weidema
New scientific arguments for including the rebound effect will be put forward at this weeks advanced LCA PhD course at Aalborg University.
During the session on consequential modelling in life cycle inventory we are keen to discuss with the students our new ideas on up-streaming the price rebound effects to more efficiently balance the individual product systems – Thereby supporting the balance argument for the price rebound effect.
Here is one of the slides we will discuss with the students:
The balance argument for rebound effects
Lecturers in this session are: Professor Bo Weidema, Associate Professor Jannick Schmidt, Associate Professor Søren Løkke, and Anna Flysjö (TBC) (Life Cycle Sustainability Manager, Arla Foods amba)
LCA screening of biofuels
July 7, 2013 by admin
With a new report on “LCA screening of biofuels & iLUC, biomass manipulation and soil carbon” 2.-0 LCA consultants have contributed to the ongoing discussions in Denmark on the effects of biomass and other energy sources on climate change.
Our report (in English) is an appendix to a Danish report published by the green think tank CONCITO on the climate effects from bio-fuels: ‘Klimapåvirkningen fra biomasse og andre energikilder, Hovedrapport’. The main report concludes that virtually no energy is completely CO2-neutral and that some biomass sources can have greenhouse gas emissions that are equal to or greater than the emissions from the fossil fuels they replace. This conclusion has spurred a healthy debate about climate effects of bio-fuels in Denmark.
Read the LCA-report: http://concito.dk/files/dokumenter/artikler/biomasse_bilag1_lcascreening.pdf