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).
13/12/2023
The researcher Ilija Sazdovski writes about the last UNESCO Chair paper on bio-materials and climate change mitigation through waste management published in Environmental Advances journal.
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.
19/06/2023
ESCI-UPF professors Mercè Roca, Jordi Puig and Marta Segura, along with UOC professor Susana Martín, have published their study of the local multiplier impact of the REC currency in Barcelona in the prestigious Urban Studies Journal.
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.
13/06/2022
The ESCI-UPF lecturer Ramon Xifré wrote a paper for Spanish and International Economic & Financial Outlook (SEFO), a FUNCAS publication. In this paper, Xifré analyses the impact of the pandemic on Spain's business fabric and self-employed professionals.
03/05/2022
UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change ESCI-UPF and the University of Girona have conducted joint research in nanotechnology and the circular economy in the paper sector. Now, the results of the study have been published as a scientific paper in the prestigious Journal of Cleaner Production.
22/11/2021
Mercè Roca has written a paper for the MDPI's journal Sustainability that analyzes the actions that the opera sector needs to foster eco-design and resource efficiency. Jaume Albertí, Alba Bala, Laura Batlle, Pere Fullana from the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change, and Joan Ribas, professor at ESCI-UPF, have also contributed to the article as co-authors.
11/10/2021
Ramon Xifré, a lecturer at ESCI-UPF, wrote a paper for Spanish and International Economic & Financial Outlook (SEFO), a FUNCAS publication. In the research article, Xifré analyses the extent to which the COVID-19 crisis has shifted the Spanish economy’s international competitiveness.