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.
Claudia Peña C, Civit B, Gallego-Schmid A , Druckman A, Caldeira- Pires A , Weidema B, Mieras E , Wang F , Fava J , Milà i Canals L , Cordella M, Arbuckle P, Valdivia S, Fallaha S , Motta W – 2020 Using Life Cycle Assessment to achieve a circular economy. Position Paper of the Life Cycle Initiative, July
Muñoz I, Soto A, Maza D, Bayón F – 2020 Life cycle assessment of refractory waste management in a Spanish steel works. Waste Management 111:1‑9
Schmidt J, De Rosa M – 2020 Life Cycle Assessment of Palm Oil at United Plantations Berhad 2020, Results for 2004‐2019. Summary report. United Plantations Berhad, Teluk Intan, Malaysia.
Weidema B P, Brandão M – 2020 Review of three recent textbooks on LCA. Journal of Industrial Ecology 24:726‑730
Laurent A, Weidema B P, Bare J, Liao X, de Souza D M , Pizzol M, Sala S, Schreiber H, Thonemann N, Verones F – 2020 Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase. Journal of Industrial Ecology, early on‑line view
Muñoz I, Aktürk AS, Ayyıldız Ö, Çağlar Ö, Meabe E, Contreras S, Toscano A, Tornée V, Llopart N, San Romà C, Ferrer O, Jiménez-Banzo A – 2020 Life cycle assessment of wastewater reclamation in a petroleum refinery in Turkey. Journal of Cleaner Production, Early on‑line view
Weidema B P, Simas M S, Schmidt J, Pizzol M, Løkke S, Brancoli P L – 2020 Relevance of attributional and consequential information for environmental product labelling. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25:900–904
Schmidt J – 2020 The product life cycle and environmental labelling schemes. Presentation at the Commercial Print Conference in Brussels, 20. February 2020
Font Vivanco D – 2020 The role of services and capital in footprint modelling. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25: 280–293
Berger M, Sonderegger T, Alvarenga R, Bach V, Cimprich A, Dewulf J, Frischknecht R, Guinée J, Helbig C, Huppertz T, Jolliet O, Motoshita M, Northey S, Peña C, Rugani B, Sahnoune A, Schrijvers D, Schulze R, Sonnemann G, Valero A, Weidema B P, Young S B – 2020 Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment: part II – recommendations on application-dependent use of existing methods and on future method development needs. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25:798–813
Sonderegger T, Berger M, Alvarenga R, Bach V, Cimprich A, Dewulf J, Frischknecht R, Guinée J, Helbig C, Huppertz T, Jolliet O, Motoshita M, Northey S, Rugani B, Schrijvers D, Schulze R, Sonnemann G, Valero A, Weidema B P, Young S B – 2020 Mineral resources in life cycle impact assessment—part I: a critical review of existing methods. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 25:784–797
Weidema B P – 2020 Towards a taxonomy for social impact pathway indicators. Pp. 11‑23 in Traverso M, Petti L, Zamagni A, (eds.): Perspectives on Social LCA ‑ Contributions from the 6th International Conference. 129 pages. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, ISBN: 978‑3‑030‑06564‑5
Aguilar-Hernandez G A, Sigüenza-Sanchez C P, Donati F, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Rodrigues J F D, Tukker A – 2019 The circularity gap of nations: A multiregional analysis of waste generation, recovery, and stock depletion in 2011. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 151:104452
Schmidt J – 2019 Comparative Life Cycle Assessment: – RSPO-certified vs non-certified. Presentation at RT17 2019, 3‑6th November, Bangkok
Merciai S – 2019 An input-output model in a balanced multi-layer framework. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 150:104403
Ruzzenenti F, Vivanco D F, Galvin R, Sorrell S, Wagner A, Walnum H J – 2019 Editorial: The Rebound Effect and the Jevons’ Paradox: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom. Frontiers in Energy Research, editorial article, 10 September
Weidema B P – 2019 Assessing socio-economic impacts of agriculture. Chapter 8 in Weidema B P (ed.): Assessing the environmental impact of agriculture. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK
Weidema B P (ed.) – 2019 Assessing the environmental impact of agriculture. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK
Geerken T, Schmidt J, Boonen K, Christis M, Merciai S – 2019 Assessment of the potential of a circular economy in open economies – Case of Belgium. Journal of Cleaner Production 227:683‑699
Weidema B P, Stylianou K S – 2019 Nutrition in the life cycle assessment of foods – function or impact? The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early on‑line 18 July 2019
Rugani B, de Souza D M, Weidema B P, Bare J, Bakshi B, Grann B, Johnston J M, Pavan A L R, Liu X, L Alexis, Verones F – 2019 Towards integrating the ecosystem services cascade framework within the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) cause-effect methodology. Science of The Total Environment 690:1284‑1298
Muñoz I – 2019 Towards global LCI data on urban wastewater discharges. Presentation at SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting, Helsinki, 26‑30 May 2019
Schmidt J, De Rosa M – 2019 Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of RSPO-certified and Non-certified Palm Oil. This report is authored by Jannick Schmidt and Michele De Rosa, 2.‑0 LCA consultants, Denmark, with contributions from the members of a crowdfunded project.
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
Weidema B P – 2019 Consistency check for life cycle assessments. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 24(5):926‑934
Beylot A, Secchia M, Cerutti A, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Salaa S – 2019 Assessing the environmental impacts of EU consumption at macro-scale. Journal of Cleaner Production 216:382‑393
Vélez-Henao J A, Font Vivanco D, Hernández-Riveros J A – 2019 Technological change and the rebound effect in the STIRPAT model: A critical view. Energy Policy 129:1372‑1381
Muñoz I, Portillo F, Rosiek S, Batlles F J, 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.
Schmidt J, De Rosa M – 2019 Life cycle assessment of palm oil at United Plantations Berhad 2019, results for 2004‐2018 – Summary Report. United Plantations Berhad, Teluk Intan, Malaysia.
Huppertz T, Weidema B P, 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 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, Schmidt J, Fantke P, Pauliuk S – 2018 On the boundary between economy and environment in LCA. 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
Muñoz I, Rodríguez C, Gillet D, Moerschbacher B M – 2018 Life cycle assessment of chitosan production in India and Europe. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 23:1151–1160
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
Schmidt J, Pasang H, Noor R T, Utoro I – 2018 Life cycle assessment of palm oil – PT SMART pilot study on GHG and biodiversity mitigation options. Presentation for the ICOPE meeting, BICC, The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Bali 25 ‑ 27 April 2018
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. 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 C J, Simas M, Schmidt S, Usubiaga A, Acosta-Fernández J, Kuenen J, Bruckner M, Giljum S, Lutter S, Merciai S, Schmidt J, Theurl M C, Plutzar C, Kastner T, Eisenmenger N, Erb K H, 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
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 22(12):1912–1927
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
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
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
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. 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
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.): 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
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
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)
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
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