LCA Young Scientist Award 2012 sponsored by PE INTERNATIONAL

The SETAC Europe Young Scientist LCA Award recognizes exceptional achievements by a young scientist in the field of life cycle assessment, e.g., an extraordinary PhD thesis that provides a significant contribution to LCA development and implementation.


In 2012 the award will be sponsored by PE INTERNATIONAL.


More information about applying for this award can be found here: 
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Global Guidance Principles for Life Cycle Assessment Databases released

The document provides guidance principles for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases; this includes how to collect raw data, how to develop datasets and how to manage databases.

The publication also addresses questions concerning data documentation and review, coordination among databases, capacity building and future scenarios.

 

The bridge between data users and data providers

LCA databases provide fundamental energy, materials, land, water consumption data and emissions data into water, air and soil for a wide range of processes, products and materials. In this way the publication provides the bridge between the data users and the data providers, making basic information easily accessible for computing the environmental footprints of materials and products that are key to make and judge green claims and to allow institutional and individual consumers to make informed consumption choices.

 

The ‘Shonan Guidance Principles’ workshop and PE's  contribution

The document is the output of the UNEP/SETAC “Global Guidance for LCA Databases” workshop, (30th January – 4th February 2011, Shonan, Japan), also known as the ‘Shonan Guidance Principles’ workshop. Martin Baitz and Jim Fava from PE INTERNATIONAL took part in the workshop and were part of the worldwide authors team.

 

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