Programa LIFE
May 15th, 19
Como cada 9 de mayo, el pasado jueves las instituciones europeas celebraron el Día de Europa 2019, una oportunidad para dar visibilidad a un elemento central de la política de la UE para garantizar un desarrollo sostenible: la protección del medio ambiente y la acción por el clima.
May 07th, 19
A study by researchers at the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF and the Universidad de Cantabria, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, proposes a novel basis for allowing comparison among the life cycle assessments of diets.
Contaminación
April 30th, 19
Cada año se producen más de 400 millones de toneladas de plástico en el mundo y solo un 9% de los residuos que generan se reciclan, mientras que el 79% se encuentra en vertederos o abandonado en la naturaleza, según la ONU. Flotando en el océano, los científicos estiman que hay alrededor de 5 billones de piezas de plástico.
March 05th, 19
The impossibility of answering a simple yes/no to this question has led scientists to assess the environmental impacts of a bus stop in Barcelona through its life cycle, and compare them to the results of a study conducted in 1998, founding that the later can be used as a proxy indicator but it implies a loss of precision.
February 21st, 19
La Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático ESCI-UPF participa en la jornada "¿Qué podemos esperar de la transición energética?", organizada por la Cátedra de Procesos Industriales Sostenibles de la Universitat de Girona.
February 08th, 19
Una tesis doctoral de la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático ESCI-UPF analiza los impactos ambientales y económicos del uso de residuos como alternativa para la estabilización de carreteras terciarias en países en vías de desarrollo.
FACES
February 05th, 19
The new year began with the arrival of a new PhD student to the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF’s Industrial PhD Programme: Ilija Sazdovski (b. Skopje, Macedonia), the recipient of the Ball Corporation predoctoral fellowship.
January 17th, 19
¿Qué pasa con los residuos una vez se depositan en el contenedor amarillo? Para evitar caer en mitos sobre el reciclaje, debemos conocer lo que realmente ocurre con nuestros residuos y motivarnos a seguir separando en casa.
January 16th, 19
Scientists have compared the use of eucalyptus wood and plastic compound sheets as auxiliary storage material in a Spanish case study showing that plastic compound sheets are an environmentally better alternative.
January 03rd, 19
The life cycle assessment applied to construction shows that the use of fly ash—a waste generated from the combustion of coal in thermal power plants—increases the capacity of load support, allowing the improvement of the conditions of performance in low volume traffic roads.
December 27th, 18
How many times have we deeply thought about what Christmas is about? I wish we do it every year. It is a time to give what is most precious.
December 20th, 18
As the end of the year approaches, it is time to reflect and ask ourselves: “What can I do to contribute to this new social model proposed by the circular economy?”
