Topics
- Sustainability footprints - carbon, ecological, water, chemical, waste
- Sustainability of emerging technologies, e.g. biomaterials, nanomaterials, etc.
- Social dimension of sustainability
- LCA applications for sustainability
Invited presentation
Environmental footprint - the environmental footprint guidelines based on the life cycle approach -
status on the development of the harmonised European methodology for the calculation of products
and companies Environmental footprint.
Dr Michele Galatola
European Commission, DG Environment, Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit
Special sessions
- LCA networks: What exists and how do they work?
- Teaching sustainability: Paving the way to a common understanding and meaningful actions
Workshops
- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment - research needs?
- Assessing social impacts in the product life cycle
- Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment - research needs?
Courses:
- Modelling human and ecosystems impacts for life-cycle assessment: the USEtox model
- Use of QSAR in risk assessment: practical use of the VEGA models and relationship with LCA
- EcoSpold 2 data format and creating datasets in the free ecoEditor tool
- LCA modelling of solid waste management systems
