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, de Saxcé M, Muñoz I – 2017 Environmental impacts of alcoholic beverages – as distributed by the Nordic Alcohol Monopolies 2014. 2.‑0 LCA consultants, Aalborg, 30th December 2016
Tisserant A, Pauliuk S, Merciai S, Schmidt J H, 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, early on‑line view: 8 March 2017
Schmidt J H, Merciai S – 2017 Physical/hybrid supply and use tables – methodological report. Report from DESIRE ‑ a FP7 project
De Rosa M, Pizzol M, Schmidt J H – 2017 How methodological choices affect LCA climate impact results: the case of structural timber. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early on‑line view, 19th april 2017
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 online 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 online view 11. March, Open access: http://rdcu.be/p0kZ
Weidema B P – 2017 In search of a consistent solution to allocation of joint production. Journal of Industrial Ecology, early online view 8. March 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.
Weidema B P – 2017 Suggestion for amendment to ISO 14044. Authored by Bo P. Weidema and submitted by Danish Standards in response to ISO/TC 207/SC 5 call for comments for collecting concrete proposals of updates or enrichments to ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 (ISO/TC 207/SC 5 Doc. N 544)
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 H, 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 – 2016 Estimation of the size of error introduced into consequential models by using attributional background datasets. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early online view, 3. December 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. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early online view, 9. September 2016
Pizzol M, Laurent A, Sala S, Weidema B P, Verones F and Koffler C – 2016 Normalisation and weighting in life cycle assessment: quo vadis? The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, pp 1–14, early online view, 13. September 2016
Schmidt J H, 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 H, Cenian K – 2016 Life cycle assessment of milk ‐ National baselines for Germany, Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom 1990 and 2012. Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark
Weidema B P – 2016 The social footprint—a practical approach to comprehensive and consistent social LCA. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, early online view.
Sanfélix J, de la Rúa C, Schmidt J H, 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. http://www.nordic‑pef.org/publications.html
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 H – 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 H, 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 JH – 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 H, McAloone T C – 2016 Challenges when evaluating product/service-systems through life cycle assessment. Journal of Cleaner Production 120(1):95–104
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.
Stadler K, Wood R, Simas M, Bulavskaya T, Kuenen J, Fernández J A, Usubiaga A, Merciai S, Schmidt J H, 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
Weidema B P – 2015 Comparing three life cycle impact assessment methods from an endpoint perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology 19(1):20‑26
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
Muñoz I, Schmidt J H, Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2014 Rebuttal to ‘Indirect land use change (iLUC) within life cycle assessment (LCA) – scientific robustness and consistency with international standards’. GCB Bioenergy, Letter to editor, December 2014
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 H, 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
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
Habib K, Schmidt J H, Christensen P – 2013 A historical perspective of Global Warming Potential from municipal solid waste management. Waste Management 33:1926‑1933
Huulgaard R D, Dalgaard R, Merciai S – 2013 Ecodesign requirements for televisions – is energy consumption in the use phase the only relevant requirement? International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18(5):1098‑1105
Weidema B P, Pizzol M, Brandão M – 2013 The Use of Monetary Valuation of Environmental Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment: State of the art, strengths and weaknesses. SCORE‑LCA report Nb 2012‑03, Date: 10/2013
Schmidt J H – 2013 Five edible oils – A comparison. Presentation at the 11th Annual Roundtable Meeting on Sustainable Palm Oil, 11‑14th November 2013, Medan
De Rosa M, Dalgaard R, Schmidt J H – 2013 National carbon footprint of milk ‐ Life cycle assessment of British and German milk 1990 at farm gate. Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark
Schmidt J H, Brandão M – 2013 LCA screening of biofuels – iLUC, biomass manipulation and soil carbon. This report is an appendix to a report published by the Danish green think tank CONCITO on the climate effects from biofuels: Klimapåvirkningen fra biomasse og andre energikilder, Hovedrapport (in Danish only). CONCITO, Copenhagen.
Schmidt J H, Watson J – 2013 Eco Island Ferry – Comparative LCA of island ferry with carbon fibre composite based and steel based structures. The Eco Island Ferry Consortium.
Weidema B P – 2013 Reducing impacts of forestry – the fallacy of low-intensity management. Presentation for 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Gothenburg 2013.08.25‑28.
Weidema B P, Christiansen K, Wernet G – 2013 Radically reducing the costs of panel critical reviews according to ISO 14040. Presentation for 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Gothenburg 2013.08.25‑28.
Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2013 Conceptual challenges for internalising externalities. Presentation for 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Gothenburg 2013.08.25‑28.
Weidema B P, Bauer C, Hischier R, Mutel C, Nemecek T, Reinhard J, Vadenbo C O, Wernet G – 2013 Overview and methodology. Data quality guideline for the ecoinvent database version 3. Ecoinvent Report 1(v3). St. Gallen: The ecoinvent Centre.
Weidema B P – 2013 Guide to interpret the EU product environmental footprint (PEF) guide. Published April 15th 2013. Aalborg: 2.‑0 LCA consultants.
Brandão M, Weidema B P – 2013 LCA Data Modelling: The Consequential Approach. Chapter 3.2 in: De Camillis, C., Brandão, M., Zamagni, A., Pennington, D. (eds.) 2013 Sustainability assessment of future‑oriented scenarios: a review of data modelling approaches in Life Cycle Assessment. Towards recommendations for policy making and business strategies. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxemburg, pp. 17‑20
Weidema B P – 2012 New paradigm or old distance to target? Environmental Science & Technology 46(2):570
Schmidt J H – 2012 Plastberegner.dk – LCA tool for plastics converters in Denmark – Documentation of the tool and database. Plastindustrien, Copenhagen.
Schmidt J H, Dalgaard R – 2012 National and farm level carbon footprint of milk – Methodology and results for Danish and Swedish milk 2005 at farm gate. Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark.
Dalgaard R, Schmidt J H – 2012 National and farm level carbon footprint of milk – Life cycle inventory for Danish and Swedish milk 2005 at farm gate. Arla Foods, Aarhus, Denmark.
Brandão M, Levasseur A, Kirschbaum M U F, Weidema B P, Cowie A L, Joergensen S V, Hauschild M Z, Pennington D W, Chomkhamsri K – 2012 Key issues and options in accounting for carbon sequestration and temporary storage in life cycle assessment and carbon footprinting. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18 (1):230‑240
Koellner T, de Baan L, Beck T, Brandão M, Civit B, Goedkoop M, Margni M, Milà i Canals L, Müller-Wenk R, Weidema B P, Wittstock B – 2012 Principles for life cycle inventories of land use on a global scale. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 18 (6):1203‑1215
Ciroth A, Muller S, Weidema B P – 2012 Refining the pedigree matrix approach in ecoinvent. Published by GreenDelta ‑ May 2012, Version 7.1
Schmidt J H, Merciai S, Delahaye R, Vuik J, Heijungs R, de Koning A, Sahoo A – 2012 CREEA report: Recommendation of terminology, classification, framework of waste accounts and MFA, and data collection guideline. Deliverable 4.1 of the EU FP7‑project CREEA
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