ECOtwins Second Annual Meeting
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
26/07/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF participated in the second annual meeting of the ECOtwins project, held at the University of Copenhagen on July 18th and 19th.
13/06/2024
Our researchers, Pere Fullana-i-Palmer and Ilija Sazdovski, collaborated with Harrison Tetteh, Rita Puig, and Mercè Balcells from the University of Lleida, and María Margallo and Ruben Aldaco from the University of Cantabria published a scientific research paper emphasizing the importance of extension of the shelf-life of products in Life Cycle Assessment.
15/05/2024
Cristina Campos, researcher of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, has been in Seville from 5th to 9th May as a speaker at the SETAC Europe Annual Meeting. In this article, she comments on the preliminary results of the poster and the CICEP research project, as well as her experience at the conference.
25/04/2024
Between March 4th and March 11th, ESCI-UPF held the ECOtwins Summer School which aimed to enhance the capacities of the University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine (NUBiP) in sustainable agriculture and environmental impacts.
09/04/2024
In a new paper published in Heliyon Journal, researchers from the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF contribute to a better understanding of the role of circularity by evaluating two indicators for two different packaging systems within the Spanish fresh food sector.
02/04/2024
Researchers affiliated with the ESCI-UPF's UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change and the Swiss company Deasyl have published a pioneering study exploring sustainable solutions for wood waste to address pressing environmental challenges from academic and private perspectives and assessing both the environmental and economic impacts. The collaborative effort involved other researchers from the University of Girona, WAB-Group, and the University Pompeu Fabra.
21/03/2024
Our researchers, Alba Bala and Ilija Sazdovski, participated in the publication of a scientific research paper emphasizing the critical importance of rigorously applying methodology when comparing two different systems (single-use and reusable) using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
17/11/2023
Sahar Azarkamand, investigadora de la Beca ARECO de la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático ESCI-UPF, escribe en el blog de ARECO sobre la necesidad de gestionar los recursos de manera sostenible y cómo podría ayudar a ello el uso de envases reutilizables de transporte (ERTs).
20/07/2023
Pere Fullana, Director of the ESCI-UPF’s UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change, has contributed to the article published in Science of the Total Environment Journal that explores the environmental assessment of on-site source-separated wastewater treatment and reuse systems in Brazil.
13/06/2023
Sahar Azarkamand, nueva investigadora de Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático ESCI-UPF, asume el liderazgo de la beca de investigación postdoctoral fomentada por ARECO desde hace dos años.
24/03/2023
La Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático de ESCI-UPF participa en el proyecto REBO2VINO para analizar el impacto y viabilidad de un sistema de reutilización de botellas de vidrio en el sector vitivinícola español.
10/01/2023
Researchers of the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF have written a paper for Elsevier’s Science of The Total Environment journal about life cycle assessment on calcium zincate production methods for rechargeable batteries.