07/10/2024
Cristina Campos, researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, comments on the results of the presentation and the CICEP research project, as well as her experience at the 19th Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES).
03/10/2024
Cristina Campos, researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF, shares the results of the project presented by Dr. Alba Bala at the 14th International Conference LCAFood 2024, held last month in Barcelona.
06/09/2024
The UNESCO Chair in Life Cycle and Climate Change at ESCI-UPF will participate in the LCAFood 2024 International Conference, held in Barcelona between September 8th and 12th.
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.
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.
10/07/2023
Las innovaciones en los envases de plástico podrían representar una herramienta para aumentar la sostenibilidad global de la producción de alimentos al prolongar la vida útil. Los sistemas de envasado desarrollados por ARECO pueden prolongar hasta 4 días la vida útil de los productos contenidos en comparación con las cajas de cartón de un solo uso.
23/03/2023
On February 27th, the students of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management, jointly offered by ESCI-UPF and BSM-UPF, visited the Integrated Valorisation Plant located in Sant Adrià de Besòs to better understand the waste management treatment processes in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.
16/02/2023
En Gran Canaria, el pasado 9 y 10 febrero se dio luz verde a CICEP, el proyecto de “Acción de economía circular en regiones insulares mediante la valorización de residuos plásticos y agrícolas” en el que participa la Cátedra UNESCO de Ciclo de Vida y Cambio Climático de ESCI-UPF.
15/01/2021
La marca de bebidas y refrescos Ocean52 ha obtenido el Sello de Sostenibilidad de Dríade Soluciones Medioambientales que certifica que las latas de aluminio de todos sus productos tienen un índice de reciclabilidad del 97,7%.
27/11/2020
Cada vegada és més habitual veure companyies que aposten per reduir els envasos plàstics i substituir-los per materials teòricament més sostenibles. Però perquè aquesta estratègia tingui un impacte positiu no n’hi ha prou amb la substitució de materials, sinó que cal tenir en compte un gran nombre de variables.