Here you will find a selection of more recent publications with contributions from 2.-0 LCA consultants staff. This page is regularly updated with our newest papers and reports – so stay tuned.
Weidema B P, Pizzol M, Schmidt J, Thoma G – 2019 Social responsibility is always consequential — Rebuttal to Brander, Burritt and Christ (2019): Coupling attributional and consequential life cycle assessment: A matter of social responsibility. Journal of Cleaner Production 223:12‑13
Muñoz I, Portillo F, Rosiek S, Batlles FJ, Martínez-Del-Río J, Acasuso I, Piergrossi V, De Sanctis M, Chimienti, S, Di Iaconi C – 2019 Prospective environmental and economic assessment of solar-assisted thermal energy recovery from wastewater through a sequencing batch biofilter granular reactor. Journal of Cleaner Production 212:1300‑1309.
Huppertz T, Weidema BP, Standaert S, De Caevel B, van Overbeke E – 2019 The social cost of sub-soil resource use. Resources 8(1): 2‑17
Weidema B P – 2018 Consistency check for life cycle assessments. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early on‑line view 22 October.
Weidema B P – 2018 Nutrition – function or impact? Paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food 2018 (LCA Food). 17‑19 October 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
Bjørn A, Kalbar P, Nygaard S E, Kabins S, Jensen C L, Birkved M, Schmidt J, Hauschild M Z – 2018 Pursuing necessary reductions in embedded GHG emissions of developed nations: Will efficiency improvements and changes in consumption get us there? Global Environmental Change 52:314‑324
Weidema B P – 2018 Towards a taxonomy for social impact pathway indicators. Presentation for the 6th Social LCA conference, Pescara, 10th ‑ 12th September 2018
Weidema B P, Schmidt J, Fantke P, Pauliuk S – 2018 On the boundary between economy and environment in LCA. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(9):1839‑1846
Weidema B P, Goedkoop M, Mieras E – 2018 Making the SDGs relevant to business. PRé Sustainability & 2.‑0 LCA consultants
Schulze R, Weidema B P, Schebek L, Buchert M – 2018 Recycling and its effects on joint production systems and the environment – the case of rare earth magnet recycling – Part I — Production model. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 134:336‑346
Hamilton H A, Ivanova D, Stadler K, Merciai S, Schmidt J, van Zelm R, Moran D, Wood R – 2018 Trade and the role of non-food commodities for global eutrophication. Nature Sustainability 1:314–321
Schmidt J, De Rosa M – 2018 Enhancing Land Use Change modelling with IO data. Presentation at the SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting, Rome 13‑17 May 2018.
Muñoz I, Weidema P, Bala A, Fullana P – 2018 Social footprint of a deposit-refund system for packaging waste in Spain. Presentation for 28th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, Rome, 13‑17 May 2018, slides available her: Social footprint presentation SETAC Rome. Extended abstract below.
Kalbar, P P, Muñoz I, Birkved M – 2018 WW LCI v2: A second-generation life cycle inventory model for chemicals discharged to wastewater systems. Science of The Total Environment 622‑623:1649‑1657
Weidema B P, Fantke P – 2018 Relating the Global Burden of Disease to life cycles. Procedia CIRP 69:417–422
Weidema B P – 2018 In search of a consistent solution to allocation of joint production. Journal of Industrial Ecology 22(2):252‑262
Weidema B P – 2018 The social footprint—a practical approach to comprehensive and consistent social LCA. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23(3):700‑709
Weidema B P, Pizzol M, Schmidt J, Thoma G – 2018 Attributional or consequential Life Cycle Assessment: A matter of social responsibility. Journal of Cleaner Production 174:305–314
De Rosa M – 2018 Land Use and Land-use Changes in Life Cycle Assessment: Green Modelling or Black Boxing? Ecological Economics 144:73‑81
Weidema B P – 2018 Attributional and consequential interpretations of the ISO 14044. Historical snapshot from the work in ISO TC207/SC5/TG1
Stadler, K, Wood, R, Bulavskaya, T, Södersten, CJ, Simas, M, Schmidt, S, Usubiaga, A, Acosta-Fernández, J, Kuenen, J, Bruckner, M, Giljum, S, Lutter, S, Merciai, S, Schmidt, J, Theurl, MC; Plutzar, C, Kastner, T, Eisenmenger, N, Erb, KH, de Koning, A, Tukker, A – 2018 EXIOBASE 3: Developing a time series of detailed environmentally extended multi-regional input-output tables. Journal of Industrial Ecology 22(3):502‑515
De Rosa M, Pizzol M, Schmidt J – 2018 How methodological choices affect LCA climate impact results: the case of structural timber. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 23(1):147–158
Merciai S, Schmidt J – 2018 Methodology for the construction of global multi-regional hybrid supply and use tables for the EXIOBASE v3 database. Journal of Industrial Ecology 22(3):516‑531
Muñoz I – 2017 Consequential LCI modeling of chemicals in wastewater: including avoided nutrient treatment. Presentation for SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, 27‑28 November 2017. Slides available here: SETAC CS 2017 WW LCI. Extended abstract below.
Schenker U, Weidema B P – 2017 White paper – social footprint. White Paper from Nestlé Research, Lausanne, September 2017
Schmidt J – 2017 Life cycle assessment of palm oil at United Plantations Berhad 2017, results for 2004‐2016. United Plantations Berhad, Teluk Intan, Malaysia.
De Rosa M, Odgaard M V, Staunstrup J K, Knudsen M T, Hermansen J E – 2017 Identifying Land Use and Land-Use Changes (LULUC): A Global LULUC Matrix. Environ. Sci. Technol. 51(14):7954–7962
Weidema B P – 2017 Estimation of the size of error introduced into consequential models by using attributional background datasets. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22(8):1241‑1246
Tisserant A, Pauliuk S, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Fry J, Wood R, Tukker A – 2017 Solid waste and the circular economy – a global analysis of waste treatment and waste footprints. Journal of Industrial Ecology 21(3):628–640
Schmidt J, Merciai S – 2017 Physical/hybrid supply and use tables – methodological report. Report from DESIRE ‑ a FP7 project
Muñoz I, Rodríguez C, Gillet D, Moerschbacher B M – 2017 Life cycle assessment of chitin and chitosan production in India and Europe. Presentation for XIII EUCHIS/VIII SIAQ conference, Seville, 31st May to 3rd June 2017. Slides available here:EUCHIS LCA chitosan 2017 Sevilla.
Pizzol M, Laurent A, Sala S, Weidema B P, Verones F and Koffler C – 2017 Normalisation and weighting in life cycle assessment: quo vadis? The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22(6):853–866
Muñoz I, Otte N, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2017 A model and tool to calculate life cycle inventories of chemicals discharged down the drain. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22(6):986–1004
Kalbar P, Birkved M, Muñoz I – 2017 A second-generation life cycle inventory model for chemicals discharged to wastewater. Presentation for SETAC Europe 27th Annual Meeting, Brussels, 7‑11 May 2017. Slides available here: WW LCI_SETAC Brussels. Extended abstract below.
Sonderegger T, Dewulf J, Fantke P, de Souza D M, Pfister S, Stoessel F, Verones F, Vieira M, Weidema B P, Hellweg S – 2017 Towards harmonizing natural resources as an area of protection in life cycle impact assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early on‑line view: 23 March 2017
Muñoz I, Rodríguez C, Gillet D, Moerschbacher B M – 2017 Life cycle assessment of chitosan production in India and Europe. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early on‑line view 11. March, Open access: http://rdcu.be/p0kZ
Weidema B P – 2017 Short procedural guideline to identify the functional unit for a product environmental footprint and to delimit the scope of product categories. 2.‑0 LCA consultants, report to the Nordic Council of Ministers.
De Rosa M, Rydberg T & on behalf of the SETAC Europe LCA Steering Committee – 2017 SETAC LCA advisory groups silver jubilee: get involved and contribute to the next stage of LCA. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22(2): 293–295
De Rosa M, Schmidt J, Brandão M, Pizzol M – 2017 A flexible parametric model for a balanced account of forest carbon fluxes in LCA. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 22:172–184
Weidema B P, de Saxcé M, Muñoz I – 2016 Environmental impacts of alcoholic beverages – as distributed by the Nordic Alcohol Monopolies 2014. 2.‑0 LCA consultants, Aalborg, 30th December 2016
Muñoz I, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2016 LCI model and tool for chemicals discharged down the drain. Case study on detergent formulations. Presentation for the 22nd SETAC Europe LCA Case Study Symposium, Montpellier, 20‑22 September 2016. Slides available here: WW LCI_SETAC Montpellier.
Schmidt J, de Saxcé M – 2016 Arla Foods Environmental Profit and Loss Accounting 2014. Environmental project No. 1860, 2016. Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Copenhagen.
Ciroth A, Muller S, Weidema B P, Lesage P – 2016 Empirically based uncertainty factors for the pedigree matrix in ecoinvent. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 21(9):1338–1348
Wernet G, Bauer C, Steubing B, Reinhard J, Moreno-Ruiz E, Weidema B – 2016 The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 21(9):1218–1230
Muller S, Lesage P, Ciroth A, Mutel C, Weidema B P, Samson R – 2016 The application of the pedigree approach to the distributions foreseen in ecoinvent v3. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 21(9):1327–1337
Dalgaard R, Schmidt J, Cenian K – 2016 Life cycle assessment of milk ‐ National baselines for Germany, Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom 1990 and 2012. Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark
Sanfélix J, de la Rúa C, Schmidt J, Messagie M, van Mierlo J – 2016 Environmental and economic performance of an Li-Ion battery pack: A multiregional input-output approach. Energies 9(8):584
Weidema B P – 2016 Valuation procedures for Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). Published as Chapter 5 of Christiansen K. (Ed.) (2016): Nordic Environmental Footprint Seminar on LCA/PEF Issues.
Schmidt J, Flysjö A – 2016 Arla Foods Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) – Organisational LCA with Monetarisation. Presentation at the SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting, Nantes 22‑26 May 2016. Slides below, the extended abstract here.
Muñoz I, Otte N, Van Hoof G, Rigarlsford G – 2016 A model and tool to calculate life cycle inventories of chemicals discharged down the drain. Presentation for 26th SETAC Europe Annual Meeting, Nantes, 22‑26 May 2016. Slides available here: WW LCI_SETAC Nantes. Extended abstract available below.
van Bree T, Slob A (eds.) – 2016 D10.2 Final report with indicator framework, indicator set and implementation roadmap. Public deliverable from the DESIRE project. With contributions from project partners incl. Jannick Schmidt and Stefano Merciai, from 2.‑0 LCA consultants.
Muñoz I, Schmidt J – 2016 Methane oxidation, biogenic carbon, and the IPCC’s emission metrics. Proposal for a consistent greenhouse-gas accounting. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 21:1069–1075
Huysman S, Schaubroeck T, Goralczyk M, Schmidt J, Dewulf J – 2016 Quantifying the environmental impacts of a European citizen through a macro-economic approach, a focus on climate change and resource consumption. Journal of Cleaner Production 124:217–225
Schmidt J – 2016 Life cycle assessment of palm oil – investigating nature conservation and other GHG mitigation options. Presentation at the 5th International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment (ICOPE), 2016.
Kjaer L L, Pagoropoulos A, Schmidt J, McAloone T C – 2016 Challenges when evaluating product/service-systems through life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production 120(1):95–104
De Rosa M, Knudsen M T, Hermansen J E – 2016 A comparison of Land Use Change models: challenges and future developments. Journal of Cleaner Production 113:183‑193.
Ekvall T , Azapagic A, Finnveden G, Rydberg T, Weidema B P, Zamagni A – 2016 Attributional and consequential LCA in the ILCD Handbook. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 21(3):293‑296
Kjær L L, Pagoropoulosa A, Hauschild M, Birkved M, Schmidt J H, McAloone T C – 2015 From LCC to LCA using a hybrid input output model – a maritime case study. Procedia CIRP 29:474–479
Moreau V, Weidema B P – 2015 The computational structure of environmental life cycle costing. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 20(10):1359‑1363
Janowicz K, Krisnadhi A, Hu Y, Suh S., Weidema B P, Rivela B, Tivander J, Meyer D, Berg-Cross G, Hitzler P, Ingwersen W, Kuczenski B, Vardeman C, Ju Y, and Cheatham M – 2015 A minimal ontology pattern for life cycle assessment data. 6th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP 2015)
Kjaer L L, Høst-Madsen N K, Schmidt J H, McAloone T – 2015 Application of environmental input-output analysis for corporate and product environmental footprints—Learnings from three cases. Sustainability 7(9):11438‑11461
Muñoz I, de Vries E, Wittebol J, Aamand J – 2015 Prospective environmental and economic assessment for biotreatment of micropollutants in drinking water resources in Denmark. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 15(6):1405‑1413
Schmidt J H – 2015 Life cycle assessment of palm oil at United Plantations Berhad 2014. Results for 2004‐2013 summary report. United Plantations Berhad, Teluk Intan, Malaysia.
Muñoz I, Schmidt J H, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2015 Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’. GCB Bioenergy, Letter to editor, 7(4):565‑566
Stadler K, Wood R, Simas M, Bulavskaya T, Kuenen J, Fernández J A, Usubiaga A, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Theurl M C, Kastner T, Eisenmenger N, Giljum S, Lutter S, Lieber M, Wieland H, Tukker A – 2015 D5.3 Integrated report on EE IO related macro resource indicator time series. Public deliverable from the DESIRE project. With contributions from project partners incl. Jannick Schmidt and Stefano Merciai, from 2.‑0 LCA consultants.
de Saxcé M, Schmidt J H, Weidema B P – 2015 Life cycle evaluation of the effect of ecolabels ‐ Apartment buildings, canteens and laundry detergents. Ecolabelling Denmark, Copenhagen.
Schmidt J H, Weidema B P, Brandão M – 2015 A framework for modelling indirect land use changes in life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production 99:230‑238
Tukker A, Bulavskaya T, Giljum S, de Koning A, Lutter S, Simas M, Stadler K, Wood R – 2015 The global resource footprint of nations. The CREEA Booklet
Bidstrup M, Pizzol M, Schmidt J H – 2015 Life cycle assessment in spatial planning – A procedure for addressing systemic impacts. Journal of Cleaner Production 91:136‑144
Schmidt J H – 2015 Nature conservation in life cycle assessment – new method and case study with the palm oil industry. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3‑7 May 2015
Weidema B P, Brandão M – 2015 Ethical perspectives on planetary boundaries and LCIA. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3‑7 May 2015
Muñoz I, de Vries E, Wittebol J – 2015 Challenges in applying LCA at the research stage: case study on biotreatment of pollutants in drinking water resources. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3‑7 May 2015
Weidema B P – 2015 The social footprint – A practical approach to comprehensive and consistent social LCA. Extended abstract for presentation at the SETAC2015, Barcelona 3‑7 May 2015
Wood R, Stadler K, Bulavskaya T, Lutter S, Giljum S, de Koning A, Kuenen J, Schütz H, Acosta-Fernández J, Usubiaga A, Simas M, Ivanova O, Weinzettel J, Schmidt J H, Merciai S, Tukker A – 2015 Global sustainability accounting – Developing EXIOBASE for multi-regional footprint analysis. Sustainability 7(1):138‑163
Pizzol M, Weidema B P, Brandão M, Osset P – 2015 Monetary valuation in life cycle assessment: a review. Journal of Cleaner Production 86:170‑179
Schmidt J H – 2015 Life cycle assessment of five vegetable oils. Journal of Cleaner Production 87:130‑138
Wendin M – 2014 Sollentuna ekofootprint och environmental profit & loss. Rapport nummer: 64, Miljögiraff, Södra Larmgatan 6, 411 16 Göteborg. The report is in Swedish.
Schmidt J H, Pizzol M – 2014 Critical review of four comparative life cycle assessments of printed and electronic communication. 2.‐0 LCA consultants and Aalborg University, the Danish Centre for Environmental Assessment, Aalborg. p 24
Høst-Madsen N K, Damgaaard C K, Jørgensen R, Bartlett C, Bullock S, Richens J, de Saxcé M, Schmidt J H – 2014 Danish apparel sector natural capital account. Danish Environmental Protection Agency, October 2014
Merciai S, Schmidt J H, Dalgaard R, Giljum S, Lutter S, Usubiaga A, Acosta J, Schütz H, Wittmer D, Delahaye R – 2014 CREEA report: Report and data. Deliverable 4.2 of the EU FP7 project CREEA
Schütz H, Schmidt J H – 2014 CREEA report: Climate change issues and Kyoto accounting – Land use cover change accounts. Deliverable 6.2 of the EU FP7 project CREEA
Verberk M, Delahaye R, Merciai S – 2014 CREEA report: Calculating standardized waste tables for The Netherlands. Deliverable 4.3 of the EU FP7 project CREEA
Schmidt J H, Merciai S – 2014 Life cycle assessment of the global food consumption. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8‑10 October 2014
Thrane M, Hansen A, Fairs I, Dalgaard R, Schmidt J H – 2014 Specialty food ingredients – Environmental impacts and opportunities. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8‑10 October 2014
Dalgaard R, Muñoz I – 2014 Consequential and attributional modeling in life cycle assessment of food production systems. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8‑10 October 2014
Muñoz I, Schmidt J H, Dalgaard R – 2014 Comparative life cycle assessment of five different vegetable oils. Poster presented at the 9th International Conference LCA of Food San Francisco, USA 8‑10 October 2014
Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2014 What can LCA learn from economics? Proceedings from the LCA XIV International Conference, October 6‑8, 2014, San Francisco, CA, United States p.37‑42. See also full proceedings.
Muñoz I, Schmidt J H, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2014 Avoiding the streetlight effect: Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’ by prof. Dr. Matthias Finkbeiner. 2.‐0 LCA consultants, Skibbrogade 5, 1, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark
Stadler K, Wood R, Bulavskaya T, Kuenen J, Eisenmenger N, Theurl M C, de Koning A, Giljum S, Lutter S, Wieland H, Usubiaga A, Fernández J A, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Tukker A – 2014 D5.2 Interim report on data processing creating EE IO time series and now-casted data. Public deliverable from the DESIRE project. With contributions from project partners incl. Jannick Schmidt and Stefano Merciai, from 2.‑0 LCA consultants.
Weidema B P – 2014 Bo Weidema’s comments on the LEAP guideline on “Greenhouse gas emissions and fossil energy demand from poultry supply chains”. Organisation: 2.‑0 LCA consultants
Weidema B P – 2014 Comparing three life cycle impact assessment methods from an endpoint perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology 19(1):20‑26
Parajuli R, Løkke S, Østergaard P A, Knudsen M T, Schmidt J H, Dalgaard T – 2014 Life cycle assessment of district heat production in a straw fired CHP plant. Biomass and Bioenergy 68:115–134
Merciai S, Heijungs R – 2014 Balance issues in monetary input-output tables. Ecological Economics 102:69‑74
Weidema B P – 2014 Has ISO 14040/44 failed its role as a standard for LCA? Journal of Industrial Ecology 18(3):324‑326
Schmidt J H – 2014 Full integration of LCA with other assessment tools – new application areas and harmonized modelling approaches. Presentation for SETAC Europe 24th Annual Meeting, 11.‑15. May 2014
Bulle C, Weidema B P, Margni M, Humbert S, Rosenbaum R, Jolliet O – 2014 Comparing IMPACT World+ with other LCIA methodologies at end-point level using the Stepwise weighting factors. Presentation for SETAC Europe 24th Annual Meeting, 11.‑15. May 2014
Sørensen C G, Halberg N, Oudshoorn F W, Petersen B M, Dalgaard R – 2014 Energy inputs and GHG emissions of tillage systems. Biosystems Engineering 120:2‑14
Schmidt J H, Muñoz I – 2014 The carbon footprint of Danish production and consumption – Literature review and model calculations. Danish Energy Agency, Copenhagen
Høst-Madsen N K, Damgaaard C K, Szeler A, McManamon D, Bullock S, Taylor J, Sireyjol A, Schmidt J H, (eds.) – 2014 Novo Nordisk’s environmental profit and loss account. Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Høst-Madsen N K, Damgaaard C K, Szeler A, McManamon D, Bullock S, Taylor J, Sireyjol A, Schmidt J H (eds.) – 2014 Methodology report for Novo Nordisk’s environmental profit and loss account. Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Bundgaard A M, Dalgaard R, Gilbert C, Thrane M – 2014 Assessment of the potential of digestibility-improving enzymes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from broiler production. Journal of Cleaner Production 73:218‑226
Dalgaard R, Schmidt J H, Flysjö A – 2014 Generic model for calculating carbon footprint of milk using four different LCA modelling approaches. Journal of Cleaner Production 73:146‑153
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