July 17th, 19
With half the people living in cities today, assessing the environmental impact of urban areas is paramount. Jaume Albertí introduces new criteria to merge the City Prosperity Index - a 6 Dimensions indicator to measure the prosperity of cities- into life cycle assessment.
Oceans and Seas
July 16th, 19
A study led by researchers at the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF proposes a marine littering indicator based on a life cycle assessment study on carrier bags in Spain.
Coming up
June 18th, 19
The idea of feedback and complex, interrelated cycles in real-world systems is behind the new LCA4Climate visual image and website to be launched this fall, coinciding with the start of the academic year at ESCI-UPF.
June 13th, 19
Los productos de higiene femenina tienen un gran impacto a nivel medioambiental y social, por lo que su elección se convierte es clave. La copa menstrual se posiciona como una alternativa a la convencionalidad.
May 29th, 19
Life cycle approaches have been acknowledged as a must to achieve sustainability by the Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA4) celebrated last month in Nairobi, Kenya.
May 27th, 19
Lisbon (Portugal) hosted the Sustainable Cabin Forum 2019, organised by Hi Fly airline and Mirpuri Foundation, to share best practices around cabin waste and single-use plastics in aviation. Gonzalo Blanca-Alcubilla, ESCI-UPF researcher, joined the event.
Filling the gaps
May 22nd, 19
According to a recently defended PhD thesis from the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF by researcher Didem Civancik-Uslu, awarded Cum Laude, sustainable use of plastics could come by the widespread adoption of functional mineral fillers.
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.
